How To set up a LAMP Server on Ubuntu 9.10.
Posted 19:14 CET Monday January 25th, 2010 (227 days ago). 515 views. No comments. Tagged with How To, Ubuntu.
A LAMP server is the basis for many web servers. It’s got nothing to do with the lighting around the server, LAMP stands for Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP. If you’re reading this, I assume that you’ve already managed to install a Linux distribution on your server and that the distribution you have installed is Ubuntu 9.10. This guide will most likely be able to help you through the process of setting up a LAMP server on other versions of Ubuntu as well as Debian, but certain package names and configurations might differ.
With Ubuntu 9.10 it became even easier to set up LAMP, and it might be possible that you did it already when installing Ubuntu. This guide assumes that you have a clean installation of Ubuntu, without Apache, MySQL and PHP, but if you already have one or more of them installed, you can still go through all the steps because you won’t break anything doing so. Now, let’s get started (I assume that you are now logged in to the server you are planning to set up). Continue reading "How To set up a LAMP Server on Ubuntu 9.10." →
How To Build a Silent Mini-ITX server.
Posted 22:07 CET Wednesday January 20th, 2010 (232 days ago). 2 comments. Tagged with Gadgets, How To, Technology.
After I moved this site to my own, home grown Mini-ITX server, I realized that I needed a new one. The current server didn’t have the horsepower to cope with the odd request peaks I was seeing and with only half of the 1GB of available RAM being recognized by the motherboard, I had a major problem. Even though the VIA CPU featured passive cooling, the chassis fan made a lot of noise and while disabling the fan didn’t make the server too hot, it just unveiled the fact that the hard drives were quite noisy as well.
So I set off on a quest to find the ultimate Mini-ITX for a home server for my web server and mail server. The server had to be both powerful and silent, meaning no noisy power supply, no CPU fans and no clicking hard drives. The only real way to achieve this is by building a server with no moving parts at all. I also wanted to use a enclosure that looked nice enough to have in the living room. After a lot of research I ended up with the following hardware:
- SilverStone Mini-ITX SST-LC19R black.
- Corsair 4GB DDR2 XMS2 PC6400 800MHz.
- Samsung DVD±R/RW/RAM slim DL 8X SATA black.
- ZOTAC ION ITX F series motherboard.
- Two Kingston V Drive notebook 64GB SSD SATA/300.
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How to Cure a Hangover.
Posted 20:02 CET Sunday January 17th, 2010 (235 days ago). 395 views. No comments. Tagged with How To.
Yesterday I was at the annual smalahove dinner that Ola organizes. And kudos to him for going through all the hard work of organizing the dinner every year for what is probably the most ungrateful pack of dinner guests you can imagine. Half of a sheep’s severed head is not the most appetite-provoking sight and as a result we’re not really giving the impression that we’re looking forward to sitting down by the dinner table.
But of course, it’s not that bad. There is not much meat on the head, but the meat you find – like the chin and a small treasure behind the ear – taste great. If you want to go wild, you can also eat stuff like the parts of the eyes and tongue. Personally, I take rain checks on both. One method we use to make the head look like something we want to dig into is to combine the dinner with massive amounts hard liquor, especially aquavit. As you can imagine, this usually results in a massive hangover as well. Continue reading "How to Cure a Hangover." →
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