ubuntu Archive
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Moving Outlook .PST emails to Thunderbird on Ubuntu Linux
Posted on September 27, 2011 | 3 CommentsDuring a recent disagreement between Windows 7 64-bit and my internal hard drive, I made a change. First, Windows 7 lost and the hard drive kept its life. The change... -
Broadcom Wireless on Ubuntu 11.04 and 11.10
Posted on September 26, 2011 | 19 CommentsI have an older Dell Latitude D520 with a Broadcom wireless card. Since Ubuntu 11.04 and now Ubuntu 11.10 Beta, I’ve been fighting to get the wireless card to work... -
Linode StackScripts and LAMP Servers
Posted on March 8, 2010 | No CommentsOn February 8th, 2010 Linode.com announced the availability of StackScripts. The StackScripts are described as: StackScripts™ provide a flexible way to customize our distribution templates. They’re very easy to use... -
MySQL Stopped Starting Upon Reboot – Ubuntu
Posted on September 22, 2009 | No CommentsOkay, so here is a quick tip. After making some system changes on an Ubuntu 8.04 LTS box with MySQL 5, a problem occurred. Upon starting the system up, MySQL... -
Linode Setup – Domain Email Forwarding
Posted on August 29, 2009 | No CommentsPreviously I talked about our adventure moving to the Linode.com service. Now that the websites have been running spectacularly for a few a week, I noticed that emails were not... -
Drupal can Fly….on a Linode
Posted on August 27, 2009 | 2 CommentsYup, I learned this week just how well Drupal can fly. Well, maybe not measured in feet above the earth but certainly in terms of response time. Come take a... -
Ubuntu 6.06 Server LTS – Adding support for SMP
Posted on January 8, 2008 | No CommentsNow that we have had our server working well following our previous instructions, it is now time to tweak some more. Actually, many folks probably thinks this is more thank a tweak and really a necessity. I'd agree with that. Why? Well you just purchased a dual, quad core Xeon server to be fast. Fast is alot of things but certainly processing power is one of those key pieces.
Go to the shell prompt on your server and run the following command:
cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep '^processor' | wc -l
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Ubuntu 6.06 Server LTS Installation on Dell PE 2950 / PERC5
Posted on January 3, 2008 | No CommentsYesterday we finished the installation of a new server. There has been alot of discussion about how to install Ubuntu 6.06 onto a Dell PowerEdge 2950 server with a PERC 5 RAID controller. Really the discussion has been about support for the PERC 5 controller and linux kernel's earlier than 2.6.17. The megaraid_sas driver is needed but not properly handled in Ubuntu 6.06 LTS.
