Posted by Michael Thu, 10 Apr 2008 18:49:00 GMT
We’re active open source developers and we’ve upgraded some laptops and a server to help look for bugs in the software we often use. Both the server and desktop versions of Ubuntu 8.04 have been very stable for us thus far. We’ll be providing support for upgrades as usual, but it’s normally pretty trivial to upgrade from one version to the next.
Posted by Michael Mon, 03 Mar 2008 18:36:00 GMT
Apple uses the tightvnc protocol for remote desktop. So install tightvnc:
sudo apt-get install xtightvncviewer
Then update your default programs to use it instead of what’s included in Ubuntu Desktop:
sudo update-alternatives --set vncviewer /usr/bin/xtightvncviewer
That’s it. In ubuntu’s RDP client, select the vnc protocol when connecting to a mac.
Posted by Michael Thu, 28 Feb 2008 13:59:00 GMT
My good friend Jake and I trucked up to new york and were sitting pretty close to where this camera is to watch this speech. We were fairly new to Linux at this point, the year before I was RedHat certified for the first time and only about 4 years prior to this speech I installed my first Slackware system (it was on a stack of floppies and took about 12 hours to install).
This was the conference where we came home with about 20 pounds of giveaways. Ahh, the good ol days.
Watch it here:
http://www.linux.com/feature/127400
He talks quite a bit about Unix fragmentation. It’s striking in 2008 how fragmented Linux has become.
He also says, in 2000, Java is dying.
Posted by Michael Fri, 08 Feb 2008 13:27:00 GMT
If you download Java from java.sun.com you need to install compat-libstdc++-33 on your system for it to work. It’s easy, as root do:yum install compat-libstdc++-33
Posted by Michael Thu, 10 Jan 2008 15:52:00 GMT
You’ve got port 3306 (MySQL) firewalled off and you want to use a MySQL GUI every once in a while (or maybe a bunch).
This is a snap with ssh.
On your local Linux/BSD/Mac/Unix machine (works in cygwin too) edit your .ssh/config file and add:
Host somemysqlserver Hostname server.mydomain.com #your mySQL server FQDN or IP User bob #replace with your valid ssh server username LocalForward *:13306 localhost:3306Now do:
ssh -f -N somemysqlserver
You can now connect to your localhost port 13306 and it will forward to your MySQL server’s port 3306.
Plus, it’s free and probably already installed on your systems.
Need help? support@imapenguin.com
Posted by Michael Thu, 15 Nov 2007 17:05:00 GMT
We’ve been testing the 2.0 Beta release of the free VMWare server. We’ve been using the 1.x series in both development and production since it was called GSX server and are very impressed with the 2.0 version.
Our favorite feature is the web based administration console. With a firefox plugin, you can now do what the desktop version could do and more.
Here’s a screenshot:
We’re available at support@imapenguin.com if you’re interested in how this version will affect your current VMWare servers or are interested in how virtualization can work for you.
Posted by Michael Mon, 12 Nov 2007 16:22:00 GMT
Get it here, while it’s hot off the presses. I know, we’re such nerds…
Here’s an emulator screenshot.
Posted by Michael Sat, 03 Nov 2007 17:26:00 GMT
Upgrading is a snap. Do:
sudo sed -e 's/\sfeisty/ gutsy/g' -i /etc/apt/sources.list sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Posted by Michael Thu, 18 Oct 2007 09:42:00 GMT
I just upgraded my IBM T41 to Ubuntu 7.10 by doing:
update-manager -c
from the command line. This forces a dist-upgrade check and runs through a pretty slick upgrader. 20 mins and 1 reboot later and she’s back and running without any issues at all.
Very sweet. I love it when things just work.
Posted by Michael Thu, 18 Oct 2007 09:18:00 GMT
Ubuntu announced 7.10 this morning.
Get it while it’s hot.
