Archive for the 'Linux' Category

Installing Eclipse, PDT & Subclipse on Ubuntu

Thursday, March 22nd, 2007

I already had Eclipse installed, so I decided to install all the dependencies and then install PDT. Ben Ramsey has put together a nice list of urls. After getting all the deps installed through Eclipse, I installed PDT and started a new project. I quickly ran into some problems – the PHP Explorer was not […]

Firefox + JavaScript + Linux = BAD?

Tuesday, March 20th, 2007

It can’t be so, yet it appears to be, at least on my box running Ubuntu Edgy Eft… In trying to use Google Docs, Firefox repeatedly freezes and or takes forever to respond when using spreadsheets online. This could be a problem with the JS on Google Docs, but it runs fine on Firefox […]

Installing Ubuntu 6.06 With RAID 1 ON Dell Server

Saturday, March 17th, 2007

I received my new Dell desktop and server on Wednesday, and spent the last couple of days installing Ubuntu on them. For my server, I have two 250 gig hard drives, and wanted to set up RAID 1. I can’t say I know a lot about RAID controllers, but from what I have read a […]

Show Desktop (Show Access) Icon on Kubuntu Edgy Eft

Wednesday, February 21st, 2007

I am enjoying KDE and Kubuntu - the ability to customize anything and everything is kind of fun. I admit, it is almost excessive, but it is nice. I took me awhile to figure out how to add a show desktop icon to my KDE toolbar, as there are so many different options and ways […]

Install Ubuntu or Fedora Core 6

Wednesday, February 14th, 2007

I am bought a couple of Linux distros to install on my desktop. I currently have Fedora Core 4 on it, and use it a decent amount for development. But I have never been completely satisfied with it, mostly due to lack of time to fine-tune it and lack of experience with Linux. I decided […]