This isn’t really a bad thing on the Ubuntu guests that I’ve been running, but it is annoying when you are watching the little screen on the VirtualBox Manager and it has this tiny line of text you can’t read at the log in screen and you’ve gone and booted it in to headless mode. Whats that small line of text say!?
Virtualbox virtual machines complaining about smbus piix4 whatever something or other
July 20th, 2011Enabling ssl on a webpage in ubuntu
June 29th, 2011I often forget how to do this and have to go look it up over and over again and figured I’m not the only one. At least I remember vaguely what its called, but who knows, next week, maybe I won’t.
To turn on the ssl stuff for apache, run these simple commands here.
a2enmod ssl
a2ensite default-ssl
The first one enables the ssl mod for the apache webserver program and then second there will enable it for the default webpage (in the sites-enabled folder)
On a side note, if you want mod_rewrite too, run
a2enmod rewrite
Seems to me that apache is getting easier and easier to set up these days.
How to set affinity to one specific processor on Windows
March 12th, 2011This is tested for XP, I’m sure it’ll work for Vista and 7 as well, but I haven’t bothered to actually try. So I have this Minecraft server my friends and I like to play on and after talking to the guy that runs it, found that the server has been complaining about the output of the program. It keeps telling him that the server can’t keep up or the time changed. Read the rest of this entry »
Install CentOS Server from a net install cd, cause its easy
February 9th, 2011To start out, you can either do a desktop or a server from this, same setup almost just a different check box. This will have a basic install of a LAMP webserver, which is Linux Apache MySQL and PHP. I’ll also show how to set up your firewall during the install and to use rootkit hunter afterwards as a further protection. Follow the screen shots here and make your settings match these. I’ll explain whats going on in them in a short line after each pic. Forgot to mention, go to http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/isos/ or to http://mirror.centos.org/centos/6/isos/.
Of all the Pandora Apps out there, PandoraJam is my favorite
February 2nd, 2011I used to run PandoraBoy, and it worked great, but the interface was clunky, so I opted to just run it in Firefox while I used Safari for my browsing, because if you quit your browser, you quit your music. All thats been fixed! Read the rest of this entry »
More from the Microtype 5 Network nightmares…
October 1st, 2010So we got to revisit the Microtype 5 Network / Site program again this week. If you are getting this program for your school, MAKE SURE ITS THE NETWORK ONE and that you have a decent fileserver to set it up on. As far as the rest of the guide here, click continue. Read the rest of this entry »
Really its just a preference, add wget to OS X
July 22nd, 2010So if you are using the command line and just want to nab a file off the internet real fast, wget is awesome. Now before someone complains to me that curl is already there, I know it is. I just use wget by default since I am primarily a linux buff and ubuntu comes with wget and not curl. Unless they changed that on me too and I didn’t notice. Read on for the rest of the tutorial. Read the rest of this entry »
Scareware!
July 19th, 2010So ok. This totally drives me nuts, bonkers, and just straight up angers me. Why on earth would you click onsomething on your screen that frightens you?
Lets think this through. Something like this pops up on your screen:
Totally looks like Windows something warning you about registry errors. Read the rest of this entry »
Set up Hewlett Packards System Software Manager
June 6th, 2010Just so you understand what this super confusing to set up and ever more confusing manuals on hp’s website program is, it’ll install your drivers for your hp computer for you. Almost automagically.
If you are not in a professional environment or only have one to do, it doesn’t matter to much. If you have 30 different models of hp computers and are sick of downloading each driver there is a new update and not knowing what versions of a driver you are running on your computers, this is for you. Read the rest of this entry »
Set up an AFP share on an ubuntu computer
April 20th, 2010Well this is embarassing… All this work to be replaced by the current edition of ubuntu 10.04. It works out of the box, just use synaptic to install the netatalk package and voila!.
This little tutorial will make an ubuntu machine look like its an xserve from your mac. This’ll allow your Mac to use time machine with the ubuntu server as a mounted drive. It will also allow easy access to your files and folders on a network share thats more native to OS X than smb and ftp is. Plus, its fast. Read the rest of this entry »
