Thursday, 11 August 2011
For many applications on MacOS, the gcc compiler is required. In the past, this required the installation of XCode -- which, by the way, was a 3+ Gig download. However, Kenneth Reitz fixed this with his OS X GCC installer, which is only about 300 Meg. Different apps may complain...
Friday, 02 October 2009
yum install -y subversion autoconf automake libtool \ gcc-c++ ncurses-devel make libX11-devel Xvfb alsa-utils \ xorg-x11-fonts* expat-devel zlib zlib-devel \ unixODBC-devel openssl-devel gnutls-devel libogg-devel \ libvorbis-devel curl-devel ntp vsftpd chkconfig anacron off chkconfig atd off chkconfig autofs off chkconfig avahi-daemon off chkconfig bluetooth off chkconfig cpuspeed off chkconfig cups off...
Saturday, 26 September 2009
We want to setup a small business telephone system that uses our Skype account to make (SkypeOut) and receive (SkypeIn) calls. We wanted to keep the costs as low as possible but there will be some (what I consider to be minimal) upfront and/or ongoing charges by Skype and Digium....
Monday, 13 April 2009
Steps I used to get BackTrack 4 BETA version running on my Dell Latitude D810. I will be using the single boot method of installation as opposed to dual boot. In other words, I will not been choosing between a linux, windows, or backtrack partition when I boot up --...
Wednesday, 08 April 2009
Make sure the domain functional level is set to Windows 2000 native mode for the Windows 2000 domain. Make sure DNS is set to Active Directory Integrated. Upgrade the Windows 2000 forest schema by running "adprep /forestprep" command on OldWin2000. Can be copied from the adprep folder from the Windows...
Tuesday, 31 March 2009
Create a file in /etc/network/if-up.d called static-routes. Add the following lines: #!/bin/sh /sbin/route add -net 172.16.0.0 gw X.X.X.X netmask 255.240.0.0 dev eth0 Of course, you would have to change the X.X.X.X to your gateway address as well as change the network (in my case 172.16.0.0) and subnet mask (in my...
Tuesday, 31 March 2009
To change to a statically assigned IP address on Ubuntu 8.10 sudo vi /etc/network/interfaces # This file describes the network interfaces available on your system # and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5). # The loopback network interface auto lo iface lo inet loopback # The primary...
Wednesday, 18 March 2009
Here's what I had to do to get Lighscribe working on my Memorex Multiformat DVD Recorder running Ubuntu 64-bit Intrepid Ibex (v8.10): First had to download a couple of things: wget http://download.lightscribe.com/ls/lightscribe-1.18.2.1-linux-2.6-intel.deb wget http://download.lightscribe.com/ls/lightscribeApplications-1.10.19.1-linux-2.6-intel.deb Since I am running the 64-bit version of Ubuntu, I had to do thing a little...
Tuesday, 17 March 2009
Because I use my MacBook Pro for development, I needed to install an SMTP daemon on my box so that it would handle email routing. I have been doing some Ruby on Rails development and after installing restful-authentication (which implements an email based authorization for new user accounts), it made...
Tuesday, 03 March 2009
I have always hosted my websites on a local (self managed) Linux or Microsoft web server. Lately I have taken great interest in Amazon's Cloud platform -- Elastic Compute Cloud(EC2). Although we have a T1 for internet access, I have been somewhat leery of the "fault tolerance" and "scalability" of...