School Of Hard Knocks

Want to test out Ubuntu? Get VMware Player and this Virtual Appliance : Networking In Ubuntu 6.10, Edgy Eft: I don't cover DHCP here, I don't know why you'd want that for a server... Setting a static IP in ubuntu 6.10 Edgy Eft : Assuming your NIC is eth1, if yours is eth0, use that instead :) Edit /etc/network/interfaces and add the following at the bottom: auto eth1 iface eth1 inet static address [IP] netmask [netmask - i.e. 255.255.255.0] network [network ip, i.e. 192.168.0.0] broadcast [broadcast address, eg. 192.168.0.255] gateway [gateway IP (Router/Modem)] dns-nameservers [DNS-ServersIPs] Now to see the changes #sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart PHP5 / Apache 2 / MySQL with Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy Eft I haven't fully tested this yet. I Got PHP5, Apache2, and MySQL up and going in seconds.. (I'm scared too) You'll probably want to be able to shell in: #sudo apt-get install ssh Next, we'll install MySQL 5 #sudo apt-get install mysql-server Next we'll inst...

Allowing other users to sudo in Ubuntu: (From a priveldged account) sudo adduser admin Read more here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RootSudo

I really should save all my digg favourites, meh, another day, another lost link. Come to think of it (and after some googling) back in 2004 google was indexing about 4 million sites, by the looks of, it seems it's indexing more than twice that amount today. BF2142 works finally, and all I had to do was buy the DVD copy, now why didn't I do this when I first bought the game is beyond me, oh and is it ever smooooth, at last! I'm going to have to try turning up the FSAA a bit more, see how far we can go, but I have no way to see how many FPS I'm getting unless I install fraps or something. Backups, you never realize how important they are, until you need them. Isn't that the truth, you'd be suprised how many production networks in large companies do not take enough back ups (or any at all!) Oh well, off to endulge in a backwoods.

OK, well it looks like my old GeForce 6800 has kicked the bucket, I've replaced it with a marked down GeForce 7900 GTX. The card is MASSIVE and nearly covers my SATA connections, and the northbridge (The old card sat over the northbridge as well) We've moved to the Hammer (Hamilton) one thing is, this ain't scarlem. The 20 minute drive to work in the morning is a welcome change (from the hour+ drive I used to have to make) but the place is nice, got some good deals on some merchandise (Thank you The Brick -- Don't pay a cent for a year or something -- There goes my bonus..) Finally my disdane for EA has grown to astronomical proportions. Fine I have to download your stupid game over and over and watch the install fail, the game not start, or get a duplicate GUID, so after re-downloading the stupid game OVER AND OVER I get some message that EA is blocking my installation attempt to prevent piracy, yes, because I'm going to pirate your piece of shit game, then attempt...