Posts Tagged ‘ubuntu’

Being Linux admin – setting up virtual servers and Samba

Tuesday, February 10th, 2009

I’m now programming casino and poker related sites in Malta. First of all, the in house CMS solution we use for our sites is tightly connected to the use of virtual servers in Apache. So first up was trying to implement that without using some admin tool like Plesk or cPanel.... Read More

Historic day for me and Linux

Wednesday, November 12th, 2008

I’m writing in the middle of the jungle, using a GPRS modem on Linux, read on and you’ll understand why that’s such a massive milestone. Up until now there has been only one single reason why I’ve still used Windows, my Salomon modem wouldn’t work on Linux.... Read More

Installing Intrepid Ibex – Ubuntu 8.10

Thursday, October 16th, 2008

I just installed Intrepid on my dual head machine at work and the experience was without flaw, easier than ever.... Read More

Bitchware and Envyware

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

I really like Ubuntu with apt-get and synaptic to manage and install software, the total freedom to customize and yadayada you’ve all heard it before. However, sometimes the experience is not so pleasant, crazy actually, the first incident happened in the very beginning of my Ubuntu usage about 2 years ago. The culprit then was Beryl (now Compiz Fusion). After installing Beryl on my Nvidia powered desktop machine at home it started to randomly freeze the living shit out of it in a completely random way. It’s a total horror to have the coolest windowing in the world and it isn’t working, so close but yet so far away! That was the first time I realized I was feeling something I had never felt before as a Windows user, or in this context for that matter, envy. ... Read More

Hardy Heron on Acer Aspire 2920

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

I’ve read quite a lot of more or less negative posts about Hardy Heron (HH) lately. Don’t upgrade yet, let them release a few upgrades first, hardware problems, no major new stuff anyway, the list goes on.... Read More

Merb and Datamapper on Ubuntu with XAMPP

Monday, January 14th, 2008

The process of setting up Merb and Datamapper can easily derail, these are my experiences of setting them up on Ubuntu with XAMPP.... Read More

From dual boot to virtual machine with Ubuntu and Windows

Tuesday, January 1st, 2008

I just shut down my dual boot by reformatting the Linux partition and running Ubuntu in a virtual machine instead. This is the walkthrough:... Read More