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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See ya, Ubuntu!

• June 26, 2007
• James Skemp

Ubuntu 7.04 - see ya later.

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New gallery added: June 23, 2007

• June 24, 2007
• James Skemp

Instead of putting things into folders based upon the subject of the photo, I've decided to switch back to dates, with an explanation of what kinds of pictures I took.

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Ubuntu Quickie: MySQL and PostgreSQL passwords

• June 23, 2007
• James Skemp

Another Ubuntu Quickie, this time on the default passwords for MySQL and PostgreSQL. MySQL mysql -u root UPDATE mysql.user SET Password = OLD_PASSWORD('***password***') WHERE User = 'root'; FLUSH PRIVILEGES; \q PostgreSQL sudo -u postgres psql template1 ALTER USER postgres WITH PASSWORD '***password***'; \q

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Reference: PostgreSQL 8.2 commands on Ubuntu

• June 23, 2007
• James Skemp

Below are the PostgreSQL 8.2 commands on Ubuntu.

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Ubuntu Quickie: Installing MySQL and PostgreSQL

• June 21, 2007
• James Skemp

For SQL on Ubuntu Linux, I decided it was easiest to just use the repositories to just install MySQL and PostgreSQL.

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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 ColdFusion 7.02 on Ubuntu 7.04 with Apache 2.2.4

• June 15, 2007
• James Skemp

Once again, may not be the best, but installing ColdFusion 7.02 on Ubuntu 7.04 (Apache 2.2.4 already installed).

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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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