April 9, 2007
mitch @ 4:28 pm on April 9, 2007
Well, Debian finally released version 4.0! Its been a long time coming, yet again, and I think I’ll be staying with Debian on my server as a result. Since it comes with all of the things I wanted and had been running from Testing prior to its release. I updated to Etch earlier today, so if you experienced problems earlier. Thats what was going on. There was a change with Apache (upgraded to 2.2) That required some changes to my virtual host config file for metauser.net, after I got that sorted out everything else so far has seemed like its working really well… Other than some botched problems with wordpress and a bad plugin (I updated to the latest wordpress finally a while ago too…) But I’m trying to find a decent plugin that will allow me to embed youtube video’s like the one I linked to a while a go(why they can’t include the one thats been put into the online wordpress.com I don’t understand). Anyway, its broken my categories stuff, so thats why this post and the one prior don’t have any listed… its borken and I haven’t been able to fix them yet. Rest assured that once I find the time to fix them I will… maybe later tonight in my other class, since I’ll have SSH access there….
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January 29, 2007
mitch @ 6:48 pm on January 29, 2007
I’m thinking I’m going to move to Ubuntu server instead of debian… I’m not liking the fact I’ll have to resetup my mail server however… I hate mail servers… Honestly… this whole spam situation we have, is honestly a mess. SMTP needs a revamp to remove such crap, or to better implement controls to slow it down and make it better to filter. However, if it wasn’t profitable (ie: all you dumb users out there that click on the spam emails and especially those of you that *ACTUALLY* buy something from these monsters)
I hate email servers!!!
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August 1, 2006
mitch @ 5:12 pm on August 1, 2006
Well, I was very supprised that Oracle actually has a .deb package for Ubuntu Dapper Drake believe it or not! I didn’t, but I was using google, and noticed a page on oracle.com that had ubuntu listed… was wondering what it was about and, I got to the oracle download page with a package for ubuntu for Oracle XE! I was shocked! I mean… all this time and all I had to do was just go to Oracle website and actually look at what they supported. This is new within the last few months as I don’t ever recall it being there…. but it may also just be that I wasn’t ever looking for Ubuntu when I was going to download something from oracle. Anyway, It installed without much problem, I was missing one package for X, and my swap space was only 1022MB instead of the package required 1024MB, so instead of going through a new install yet again, I just added a swap file off the root partition and added that to my available swap for the install. After that, everything is working perfectly.
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July 27, 2006
mitch @ 6:19 pm on July 27, 2006
I’ve been wanting to run Ubuntu for a while so I can see what all the talk is about. First I was saying I would after I got my RHCE, well I did that then I still kept putting it off, then I changed jobs and and put it off even more… Now I finally bought my own laptop and I was still contemplating installing Fedora just because I need Oracle for school. Well, Ubuntu works out of the box with the wireless card on my laptop, and fedora doesn’t. As my previous post stated, I was having problems getting it to work. And it was turning into a very hacked up install to get it to “sorta” work. When I could get it to work, it was still alot of command line tweaking to get it running and I really don’t want to do that all the time. So…. I checked out and to get Xen working on Ubuntu is just installing a custom kernel, which is no big deal, or VMWare also installs on Ubuntu so… I’m set, I reinstalled Ubuntu 6.06(Dapper Drake) At work today, and got it updated… fixed the minor issue with NetworkManager (which just needs to recache a pix directory in gnome?) And so far so good. I got all the multimedia stuff installed but I still need to test it. And I have a pretty slick theme going I’ll post a screen shot in a bit. Anyway VMWare is downloading, and since its free, I should be good to go.
Anyway, all in all, I’m liking Ubuntu. I’m not sure if its because of this latest and greatest release or what… but so far its excelent.
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July 26, 2006
mitch @ 1:49 pm on July 26, 2006
Why is it these hardware manufacturers have such a hard time letting go of this idea that they’ll loose something if they were to let the linux community distribute their drivers, or even more… if they’d just release the specs for their wireless hardware and let the open source community develop the drivers independantly. Anyway, I’m documenting my setup on my Lenovo N100 page. Check it out for my final how-to on getting wireless to work in hopefully an easily maintainable way.
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