SPRING BREAK!

Thank God for a week off…
There probably won’t be too many posts during break. I need time away from the computer to see my family =).
Thanks all for 2000+ hits!
Daniel

My running server

I ended up actually reinstalling…
For some reason my installation of the mailserver (*why* did I do that?) screwed up sudo. As I could no longer use sudo at all, that pretty much destroyed the install. I couldn’t even shut down.
So, after a relatively painless second install, in which I did not choose to install a [...]

Running Server

Well, my Ubuntu server is now running. The guys over at Ubuntu have made this really easy. After installing the base system, it asks you which servers you want to set up. There are:

DNS server
LAMP
OpenSSH (sshd)
Mailserver
PostgreSQL
Samba server

I installed all but DNS and PostgreSQL. I installed a mailserver, but I have no idea what to do [...]

Making an Ubuntu Server

I’ve decided to make the ancient Gateway desktop I have lying around into a server with Ubuntu. Previously I was running Openbox, but I’m going for complete command-line, headless operation this time.
Some of the things I want in my server:

Full LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) for easy web development.
FTP server – why not?
SSH – for [...]

Firefox 3 beta 4

I got Firefox 3 beta 4 installed finally. It was quite an ordeal to find semi-official packages for it that aren’t dependent on Hardy. I finally did. Check here for more details if you really want to install it. There is a link halfway down to the repositories that hold it. If you are that [...]

Linux Google!

Just messing with Google, found this. It’s pretty fun. I like the Google logo with the penguin. It gives (obviously) results related to Linux.
Google Linux

Ultimate Gnome theme for Claws Mail

I was bored, so I decided to make that theme for Claws Mail that matches Ultimate Gnome better. Note that it is not by any means perfect, I just spent like half an hour converting all of the icons I could find that looked reasonably like their desired function. Most of the ones I couldn’t [...]

Installing Claws Mail 3.3.1 in Gutsy

As I complained yesterday, the latest version of Claws Mail available in Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy is 2.10. That is disappointingly low compared to the current 3.3.1 version.
Thanks to an extremely helpful comment on my original article, I now know how to install the newer version.
We are going to add their unofficial repository to our sources, [...]

New Editor – Medit

My search for a new text editor had many of the same causes as my search for a new email client. I have been for several months using Bluefish. I found it in the Programs, and it looked fairly full-featured. It is very full-featured, but with several problems. First, it’s quite slow. Bluefish is a [...]

New Email Program

I’ve been using Evolution for my email since I started using Ubuntu, for the simple reason that it is the default. I did try Thunderbird, but it didn’t seem right on Linux as it did in Windows. I’m not sure why.
Evolution has been kind of annoying lately, taking a lot of time and resources to [...]