Category Archives: ubuntu

getting a wordpress linux box up in 5 minutes (*)

May 31, 2011 – 22:02

If you’ve ever went to the trouble of setting up WordPress on a Windows machine yourself, going through a PHP, MySQL and phpMyAdmin installation, then sort through all the IIS crap you run into you’ll love TurnKey Linux virtual appliances (aka pre-installed virtual machine boxes). You can for example download a WordPress appliance which has [...]

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still a windows geek

September 10, 2008 – 21:48

Originally this post was called “I’m a Windows geek”, and was about how I installed Ubuntu after not being able to reinstall Windows XP because something was making the hardware detection lock up. Using Ubuntu I did manage to get through the hardware detection, and eventually diagnosed the problem to be able to reinstall the [...]

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how to fix GRUB problems

July 21, 2008 – 19:56

cc-licensed photo by \in`som´ni`ous\ After replacing a dead power supply I found out my GRUB boot menu refused to start the selected OS. It just spat out this horrifying message: Grub Error 21: Selected disk does not exist After some Google-ing and asking some questions in the #grub IRC channel I downloaded a tool called [...]

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finding out where software is installed on ubuntu

April 15, 2008 – 19:35

Pic by Felipe Morin, cc-licensed For someone not accustomed to the Unix file system hierarchy you might have a hard time figuring out where the heck that package manager installed software you just selected. That is when it doesn’t occur automatically in your Ubuntu Application menu in the first place. Well there is a simply [...]

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