Install the required components to host the site, eg: a LAMP stack. Update the Ubuntu server and install LAMP, Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP: Now we need to clone the default site config file, and customise it to our requirements. Once thats done, enable the site with a2ensite and restart Apache.
Fedora 10 has a nice new boot screen. However, I found that I could only see a basic text loading bar at the bottom of the screen. This is due to graphics card support and from what I have read there will be many more cards supported in F11. If you can’t wait that long, …
Well, better late than never. I thought I would take this chance to set myself some ‘open’ goals for the New Year. First off I hope to get involved in more FOSS advocacy projects, there are a few about which I hope I can contribute too. As part of this, I am going to get …
How I setup Flash on my fresh Fedora 10 x86_64 install. Close Firefox Change to the Firefox plugins directory Download the Flash plugin Extract the plugin Remove the .tar.gz as you now have the plugin extracted Open Firefox & you should be away!
Finally got around to upgrading to Fedora 10 this week. I have an issue with downloading podcasts using Amarok, but other that that all is good. Impressed. Looking forward to playing with my new install further!
Do you run a squid proxy? I do, and have been restarting squid to apply config changes for ages. Turns out that you can just run “service squid reload”, users have no down time and your config changes get applied. Great. Wish I had thought to check that before now….. 🙂 (This works on RHEL/CentOS, …
IE8 (Due out later this year), will render in “Standards Mode” by default. Web developers of pages that work nicely in IE7 and nothing else can request IE8 to use IE7’s mode via the “http header/meta tag approach”. Hopefully this move will enable much better cross browser and developers of troubled sites will invest the …
I have had New Tag Cloud installed on my blog for a while but have not go around to sorting the CSS & HTML to display it how I wanted. However, a new version has been released, 0.3, and I have upgraded and sorted out getting it set up. I also upgraded my WordPress install …
When users write content, is it of any value? Do we trust what we read? Can we trust what we read? Let me ask you a question, do you value this? I am only a user, just like you. So does this make my words valuable or worthless, the answer is one only you know. …
We have moved from a time when the web was written for us, a source for information, published by big companies and geeks. Now we are all the web, whether we are geeks or not. With the latest changes to the way people interact online being a good example. “I will put the pictures on …