It’s been over a month without any activity, but the SQL server build is moving forward again. In the previous five installments I was installing, configuring and getting comfortable with the the basic Ubuntu install. The past articles can be found in the Ubuntu Server Project section on my Linux page.
Today’s task is to [...]
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This is a bit different than the other posts as I won’t actually be installing any major software. Instead I’ll be customizing Ubuntu to make it easier for me to use and finding programs to monitor my server.
System Information
First I’ll want some commands that tell me about the system. Since there’s only 256MB of [...]
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Continuing along the security theme set by the previous article I’ll configure some simple iptables firewall rules for my Ubuntu Server virtual machine. Iptables can be pretty complicated and I won’t attempt to go into great detail. Since this is a virtual machine only accessible from within my home network I have the luxury [...]
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This is the third installment in my Ubuntu Server Project series which documents my efforts to get a working copy of WordPress running on Ubuntu Server 7.10. It’s summarized, with links to past articles, on my Linux page.
Ok, technically security should have been set up immediately after installation so this should have been the second [...]
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This is the second installment in my Ubuntu Server Project series which documents my efforts to get a working copy of WordPress running on Ubuntu Server 7.10. It’s summarized, with links to past articles, on my Linux page or go to the previous article about installing Ubuntu Server 7.10.
Most of my experience with the *nix [...]
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CES is over and MacWorld is about to begin. Can’t say anything at CES caught my attention. Stuff was just bigger, thinner and less expensive. The big news last week seemed to be Warner’s move to Blue-Ray and that was before CES.
I can’t say I’m all that excited about MacWorld either. Curious? Yes. Excited? [...]
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