May, 2008

Wow, this one, not the greatest:P

Linux Basement News:

A new article is up. Thanks to Phrantik for throwing up a tip on how to use unison Syncing laptop with desktop very easily.

Correction! Check out http://screencasters.heathenx.org/

Come on by irc.freenode.net #linuxbasement or email me at chad@linuxbasement.com

In The News:

Linux Basement News:

A new article is up. Thanks to Phrantik for throwing up a tip on how to use unison Syncing laptop with desktop very easily.

Correction! Check out http://screencasters.heathenx.org/

Come on by irc.freenode.net #linuxbasement or email me at chad@linuxbasement.com

In The News:

Anyone who has used a derivative of Unix over the past 20 years has used Bash, which stands for Borne Again Shell. The geek in all of us makes us want to extend our ability to rule the command line. To truly master a Unix environment, you need to know a shell, and Bash is easily the most popular of them. Any Unix/Linux/BSD administrator knows the power at your fingertips is fully extended by what you can do within the Bash environment, and all of us need the best recipes to get the job done.

Preparing for Drupal and Moodle



We have to do serveral more things to prepare the server and database for Drupal. The first thing is we need to enable mod-rewrite and also make a quick change to the default apache2 configuration file for sites-available.



First, lets go ahead and enable mod-rewrite by entering the following at the command prompt:

I'm trying to embed Gallery2 within Drupal 6 on my home webserver. It is almost  working, but not. I can't access the actual gallery pages and pictures. it is missing part of the path. The stand-alone version is fine. If you want to take a look at it, visit
http://haliburton.homelinux.net/ndbcc/?q=gallery
and
http://haliburton.homelinux.net/ndbcc/gallery2/main.php
 
Any help appreciated.
 
Peter
 

This is what I did and why I did it.  I have a desktop computer and a laptop.  I prefer to use my desktop while I am at home, and my laptop while away.  While sitting in a coffee shop I would download email to thunderbird and I would be browsing the internet and bookmarking sites, and I may even download music files or jpgs.  When I got home I would want to access those emails, bookmarks, and files on my desktop. Or sometimes it would be the other way around.

Linux Basement News:
New Season! Advanced Web Server techniques.
Linux Basement is now an official O'Reilly User Group. Use the link at the bottom of the page to get 35% off on all titles.
Richard Querin is at it again. Great new Wallpaper is up here!
Lots of new user articles are up, thanks to everyone for the contributions! Check the articles out here.

Linux Basement News:

New Season! Advanced Web Server techniques.

Linux Basement is now an official O'Reilly User Group. Use the link at the bottom of the page to get 35% off on all titles.

Richard Querin is at it again. Great new Wallpaper is up here!

Lots of new user articles are up, thanks to everyone for the contributions! Check the articles out here.

Sometimes you gotta thank your support system...

Capo 4th Fret

G Am7
Sometimes I give you a blank smile
C D
As you're talking to me
G Am7
Not giving you the attention
C D
The attention you should see

Sometime I spend to much time

On the computer with the boyz

Laughing about techie jokes

and talking about techie toys

A Em
I know it aint easy
A Em
so I kiss you on the cheek
A Em
Because I know it aint easy
D....
Living, with a geek.

I talk about binary

as if its a language you should teach

I sling the open sourse jargan

Now it is time to log into your server. Remember that you have to log in with the username/password that you created durring the installation process.



For our purposes, we need to configure root access. To do this, you must issue the root user a password.

sudo passwd root

You will notice that you are first promted for your password, and then prompted twice to enter a password for root. Now that you have a password, you can change into root by typing:

Let's go ahead and power on the virtual machine, make sure to have your Ubuntu Server disk in your disk drive. www.ubuntu.com

Click "Power on this Virtual Machine".







If all goes well, you will boot to the installation CD and see this.

I wanted to backup my home directory using rsync to a separate drive, and to make it happen automatically.

I spent ages doing research into the various commands, and found everything I needed to know, but not all in the same place. While it was fun for me, others may just want to know how to do it immediately.  So here goes!

Wonderful live episode guys, so sorry I missed joining it live, maybe next time.
I do have a question for Pete - what was your lesser know distro pick again? it sounded intresting but I was mobile when I was listening and did not catch the name (link) - and I did not see your usual links/notes for the episode.
Sorry to bother you, but if someone remembers the name I of it please post here, I wanted to check it out.
 
Thanks,
 
Eric

Freedom boy.

Linux Basement Season 2 Live Finale, with a special Pete's Picks of the Week. Don't forget the song at the end!

Linux Basement Season 2 Live Finale, with a special Pete's Picks of the Week. Don't forget the song at the end!