I found it quite inconvenient that later releases of Linux do not fit on a CD. Thus I went searching for the latest release that would fit. I found the following page with the releases: Research links Ubuntu Releases Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS (Precise Pangolin) – this relatively young release fit Read more…
I connected my Ubuntu laptop to an external 24 inch monitor. I then tried to set the resolution to a level appropriate for a 24 inch monitor: 1920×1200. However when I looked in the settings the highest resolution was quite low. I had to add additional resolution levels manually. Research Read more…
I was unable to complete the fix. I suspect it will return so I am storing my research links here. How do you stop memtest turns out my hard drive was knocked out of grub somehow. LinuxLive USB creator – I believe this is for work on a Read more…
Installing GCC – The later instructions for the AutoTools is sketchy
I needed to verify my Ubuntu download was good. I downloaded 2 times and got the same checksum both times. Appears I have to take yet another hard drive back to microcenter. Microcenter hours. Checksum tool Ubuntu CheckSums My Ubuntu version = ubuntu-12.10-desktop-i386.iso b4191c1d1d6fdf358c154f8bf86b97dd Checking CD Integrity – I ended Read more…
Val Henson describes her career in open source Linux system programmers are in short supply If you are vaguely competent and get some experience you become employed for life Not all Linux programmers are idealists. Now days it is a for profit motivation. her pay profile progressed very well. Read more…
I bought 3 Rackable Systems servers. Turns out they have the ATI Rage XL graphics chip on the motherboard. This is a problem because with Ubuntu there seems to be no easy way to get anything better than 800 by 600 display resolution. As I am trying to use one Read more…
Hosting multiple websites on Apache2 An more detailed version of the same thing
How to set up a mail server on linux – very detailed with security aspects covered Ubuntu Mail Server
The general skeleton of the procedure: WordPress Installation on Ubuntu with LAMP file names are case sensitive – change to desktop directory then do the dir command to make sure you see the wordpress archive file in your desktop folder create a new user in your MySQL database. User Management with Read more…