BlogEngine.NET - now used by StrivingLife

• July 13, 2007
• James Skemp

With a new host, comes a unique move. Previously I was using WordPress, since I was hosted on a Linux (shared) server. Fortunately, I've decided to move to a Windows VPS, since the month of June was full of either slow down, or completely down, times. Since I don't want to install PHP and MySQL (which I would want to pay for the external dbs anyway), I've decided to switch my content out of WordPress.

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Ubuntu 7.04 - Server Edition installed

• June 26, 2007
• James Skemp

Just about finished ... Quite the process, but things seem to be running okay - now I just have to determine whether it was worth it ...

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Don't let my recent posts confuse you

• June 18, 2007
• James Skemp

... I'm not an Ubuntu-only user yet (unlike some people I know).  Granted, I like using it, since I've believed, for some time, that if you want to run Apache, you can't really run it on Windows ... (Granted, I'm having a really difficult time trying to stick to my guns with Apache, versus IIS, but ... well, more on that in the future.) I will probably blow this current box away and re-install Ubuntu, without the Windows partition, and doing a lot more building from source, for example, for Firefox.

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Configuring Apache for per-user pages

• June 18, 2007
• James Skemp

In a previous post, I covered installing Apache 2.2.4 on Ubuntu. Unfortunately, if you want to create content for this server, you need to either use the root account, or change the permissions on the /usr/local/apache2/htdocs directory. Let's keep things that way.

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Quickie: Install Apache 2.2.4 on Ubuntu

• June 15, 2007
• James Skemp

May not be the best, but ... here's how I installed Apache 2.2.4 on Ubuntu (7.04), based on David Winter's guide Building Apache 2.2 from source for Ubuntu Dapper. All code from a terminal, unless otherwise noted. sudo apt-get install build-essential cd mkdir src cd src I downloaded zlib from http://www.zlib.net/ (zlib source code, version 1.2.3, tar.gz format) into the src folder, and extracted it to the same. cd zlib-1.

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Safari, now available for Windows

• June 12, 2007
• James Skemp

Thanks to Dan Conderman (of MadisonHotSpots) I found out this morning that Safari is now available for Windows users, as part of the Safari 3 Public Beta.

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Eclipse SDK 3.2.2 to Ubuntu 7.04

• June 12, 2007
• James Skemp

Having already installed JDK 5.0 on Ubuntu, it's time to install what I really wanted in the first place - Eclipse.

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Installing Sun's Java Development Kit 5.0 Update 12 on Ubuntu 7.04

• June 11, 2007
• James Skemp

I don't have much desire to update from the repositories all the time, for whatever reason. Supposedly, if you run Eclipse from the download manager on Ubuntu, you can expect one slow experience. So ... time to start by installing Sun's Java.

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Initial thoughts on moving Firefox settings from Windows to Ubuntu

• May 30, 2007
• James Skemp

This past Friday, I installed Ubuntu 6.06, upgraded it to 6.10, upgraded it to 7.04. I didn't have too much time to actually use it this weekend, but I'm beginning to, attempting to move towards using it almost exclusively for day-to-day stuff.

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More comments in WordPress 2.1.2

• March 25, 2007
• James Skemp

I noticed the other day that after upgrading to WordPress 2.1.2, many of the ads that the AdSense-Deluxe plugin was adding were not getting really getting added.

Normally I add the necessary AdSense-Deluxe (ASD) code immediately after the 'more' comment. However, if I changed the location of the ASD code, the ads displayed correctly. Eh?

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