Monthly Archive: May 2010

May 31

Creating A Server Part 1: A Basic LAMP Configuration

So I don’t know about you, but when I first approached setting up a web-server, I was a little overwhelmed by the amount of information out there. Now having had experience in setting up and running different types of server, from apache web-servers to subversion servers, Ruby-On-Rails servers to mail servers, I thought I’d share …

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May 30

How to decompress a tarball

Basically, I’ve been writing a blog on how to setup a LAMP system. During the stages of doing this I’ve realised I’m rubbish at remembering how to decompress a tarball. So for all you out there looking for an answer here it is tar -xvzf yourfilename.tar.gz As I come across more types I’ll add them …

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May 30

Default Aptitude Repositories on Ubuntu 9.10 and 10.04

So recently I’ve spent a lot of time setting up different Linux installs and the like for running as server or desktop purposes. Currently my sites are hosted on VPS.net, and while I cannot complain about them their hosting, I have have noticed a slight lack of sources for aptitude in the their basic Ubuntu …

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