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  • FSCK to the rescue - Duplicate of bad block in use!

    Posted on Thursday April 3rd, 2008 at 15:22 in linux ubuntu, fsck, bad block

    This morning my Ubuntu OS was running really slowly, and eventually Firefox become unresponsive. I was forced to hit the power switch to reboot, but the reboot failed, due to a "bad block" and duplicates. All a bit worrying. This morning I could get ...

  • Installing JAlbum on Ubuntu Linux

    Posted on Saturday November 10th, 2007 at 19:17 in java, ptp, linux ubuntu, jalbum, gthumb

    As I use JAlbum to generate web albums, I need to install it onto my Linux machine. To do so I had to upgrade my Java Virtual Machine to Sun's latest version. I decided to use the Synaptic Package Manager for this, as I was not entirely sure which pa...

  • FTP finally set up on Ubuntu, using Proftpd

    Posted on Monday October 29th, 2007 at 16:07 in linux ubuntu, ftp server, user ftp, ftp home, proftpd

    I have almost got my server set up. Today I managed to get the FTP server set up, using ProFTPD. Installing it was a breeze with Linux, as usual, but configuring it was much trickier for me. More steep learning curves. I have managed to set up users...

  • Good Tuition Makes Fast Progress with Linux

    Posted on Wednesday September 26th, 2007 at 14:48 in apache, linux ubuntu

    Got lots of help and advice this evening from my mate who is a bit of a wizard with computers. This evening I learnt these handy commands:(find . -type f -name '*.htm*'); do(to find all files within a directory that end in .htm or .hmtl or .htmanythi...

  • Linux, Apache, PHP Success. Next MySQL...

    Posted on Monday September 24th, 2007 at 16:44 in web hosting, lamp, web server, linux ubuntu, apache installation

    Well, everything seems to be going exceptionally smoothly so far. Time for bed now, but next time I will be installing MySQL. Then once that is set up I should in theory have a test environment to test database driven websites such as Drupal and Word...

  • Installing Apache

    Posted on Monday September 24th, 2007 at 16:05 in web server, linux ubuntu, apache installation

    OK, this post will seem very strange to most readers. I am in the process of installing Apache onto my Ubuntu distribution, and I want to record everything that happens. So I am simply copying to this blog the terminal output. To most people this wil...