Archive for the 'Linux' Category

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 […]

Fedora Core 6

Friday, October 27th, 2006

Fedora Core 6 was released the other day and seems like a lot of people are downloading it. At least that is the impression I get, as the fedora site was down for a while and has now been up in an altered state for the last couple of days.
Some cool new things in 6 […]

301 Redirects with Apache .htacess file

Thursday, September 7th, 2006

I’ve just spent more time than I care to in the last couple of days trying to figure out rewriting urls with Apache, both through .htaccess files and directly in the conf file. Today was relatively painless, as I just had to come up with a way to 301 redirect all “extra domains” and some […]