Name: James Toyer
Date registered: May 30, 2010
Jun 15
The internet can be a hostile place with many people out there intent on hacking other peoples computers and servers. I have found that the basic tips I outline in this blog can help prevent, or at least slow down, hacking of your server. Many of these tips are found on the Ubuntu server guide, …
Permanent link to this article: http://www.jamestoyer.me.uk/2010/06/15/creating-a-server-part-2-security/
Jun 02
Having recently installed Ubuntu 10.04LTS on my laptop in dual boot with Windows 7, I’ve been busy setting it up for everyday use. That and putting some eye candy into the system. Anyway I stumbled across a way to change the boot-loader to a much prettier version. Ubuntu currently installs with GRUB2 (GRand Unified Bootloader), …
Permanent link to this article: http://www.jamestoyer.me.uk/2010/06/02/changing-the-grub-boot-loader-to-burg/
May 31
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 …
Permanent link to this article: http://www.jamestoyer.me.uk/2010/05/31/creating-a-server-part-1-a-basic-lamp-configuration/
May 30
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 …
Permanent link to this article: http://www.jamestoyer.me.uk/2010/05/30/how-to-decompress-a-tarball/
May 30
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 …
Permanent link to this article: http://www.jamestoyer.me.uk/2010/05/30/default-aptitude-repositories-on-ubuntu-9-10-and-10-04/
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