http://linuxdave.com Life, Linux and Crazy Videos Thu, 31 Jan 2008 19:35:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en If you’re into filesharing, but don’t like the viruses, spam and everything awful about P2P clients (like Limewire, Kazaa), you might want to look into using newsgroups. I can consistently max out my bandwidth downloading from a news server (vs the sometimes slow speeds of P2P). With the new do-it-all ... http://linuxdave.com/23/newsgroups-made-easy-windows-and-linux/ This will install a LAMP server in about 5 minutes onto an Ubuntu server: apt-get install apache2 php5 libapache2-mod-php5 apache2-doc php-pear apt-get install msyql-server mysql-client php5-mysql /etc/init.d/apache2 restart Done! Your apache conf files are in /etc/apache2/ PHP ini is in /etc/php5/apache2/ Your web root is /var/www/ Enjoy! http://linuxdave.com/22/5-minute-lamp-server-on-ubuntu/ When installing apache 1.3.37 from source on an Ubuntu server, it mentioned that I had a broken echo command: root@web02:~/apache_1.3.37# ./configure –prefix=/usr/local/apache Configuring for Apache, Version 1.3.37 + Warning: Your ‘echo’ command is slightly broken. + It interprets escape sequences per default. We already + tried ‘echo -E’ but had no real ... http://linuxdave.com/21/apache-from-source-broken-echo-command/ Check out the crazy flooding that happened at my place the other day. It rained for about 10 minutes, then this happened: http://linuxdave.com/19/great-flood-of-2006/ Randy and I just came back from a Jeep Jamboree. People from all over the place come to these just to drive their jeeps in mud, streams, and over rocks. This was the first Jamboree held in the Ozarks in southwest Missouri. Lots of fun. Check out the pics: The ... http://linuxdave.com/18/jeep-jamboree-top-of-the-ozarks-2006/ On our way back from Chicago, we stopped at Randy’s home in St. Joseph, Michigan. I got a few nice sunset pics out on the beach. Check out the rest of the pics from that night! http://linuxdave.com/17/st-joseph-michigan/ Happy St. Paddy’s Day from Chicago! This year, we took a 3 day trip to Chicago for St. Patrick’s day. Staying at the Palmer House, we were right downtown. But we weren’t in the hotel very long. We watched the MSU game at the Gin Mill, the famous MSU-themed bar. We ... http://linuxdave.com/16/st-patricks-day-2006-in-chicago/ A few weeks ago we took a trip to the Bell’s Brewery in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Bells is the creator of one of my favorite microbrews, the Two-Hearted Ale: “India Pale Ale style well suited for Hemingway-esque trips to the Upper Peninsula. American malts and enormous hop additions give this beer a ... http://linuxdave.com/15/bells-brewery-in-kalamazoo-michigan/ Ever needed to remember the first 200 or so digits of pi? Easy! Check this out: http://pi.ytmnd.com/ http://linuxdave.com/13/a-better-way-to-remember-the-digits-of-pi/ It seems that Dreamhost has gone even more insane and is now offering 20GB of disk space and 1TB (yes a full terabyte) of monthly bandwidth. They also cut the price on their “Code Monster” plan in half. To get the deal just goto their site and signup for the Level ... http://linuxdave.com/12/dreamhost-20gb-disk-space-1tb-bandwidth-for-2240-per-year/