http://mba683.blogsome.com Internet Biz Applications & Services Sat, 16 Sep 2006 08:34:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Tried installing Wordpress today on my Ubuntu and gave up after Step Two. I tried. I really did. I surfed the website and read The Famous 5-Minute Install only to realize the wisdom of my predecessors when they said it was more like The Famous 5-Hour Install. Step 1: Download and ... http://mba683.blogsome.com/2006/09/16/omygawd/ I launched a browser in Ubuntu and entered the following IP "127.0.0.1" to obtain ‘evidence’ of Apache and PHP at work.   In case you can’t read the print, it says "Apache/2.0.55 (Ubuntu) PHP/5.1.2 Server at 127.0.0.1 Port 80"   However, my personal geek did not know how to prove that MySQL is running ... http://mba683.blogsome.com/2006/09/04/lamp-is-on/ L is for Linux (Ubuntu)   Allocated = 6.5GB | Actual Available = 5.6GB | Used = 1.8GB | Free = 3.8GB To install A.M.P. on Ubuntu: Estimated Time: Approximately 1/2 hour  Select Applications on the Ubuntu screen and click on "Add/Remove" Click on the ‘Advanced’ button. The Synaptic Package Manager will appear and request ... http://mba683.blogsome.com/2006/09/04/step-3-installing-amp/ Expected Duration: Approximately 20 minutes  Immediately after the setting up VMWare Server on my laptop, I proceeded to start my virtual machine from the Nero-burned CD copy of Ubuntu. The laptop defaulted to boot from the CD so I had to wait till the Ubuntu screen popped up before selecting ‘Install’. Notes  ... http://mba683.blogsome.com/2006/09/04/step-two-installing-and-running-ubuntu/ Installing VMWare Server Running a virtualization program typically takes about 6 to 8GB of space so after cleaning up my laptop, I had about 21GB left and decided it was time to install VMWare Server on it. Expected duration = approximately 10 minutes I clicked on the execution file and several clicks ... http://mba683.blogsome.com/2006/09/04/step-one-setting-up-vmware-server/ The first commandment of this class: Back up. Constantly. (Usually via an external hard-drive) In view of the above, I’ve decided to spend the evening cleaning up the 48GB of used space on my laptop before taking that momentous step of no return into opensource world - installing VMWare Server and ... http://mba683.blogsome.com/2006/09/01/back-up/ Since I’ve decided on using the virtualization option to run my LAMP stack, it was now down to deciding between Parallels or VMWare. So… $50? or free? The practical side of me rationalized that $50 was a small amount compared to the sense of well-being Parallels should give me as ... http://mba683.blogsome.com/2006/08/31/virtualization-option/ Since I’d completed my other assignment, I decided to work more on my website. Here’s the new version of it with a lot of currently-still-broken links.     http://mba683.blogsome.com/2006/08/31/updates-to-website/ I brought my copy of Nero-burned Ubuntu CD to the Malloy Hall Computer Lab where another classmate was just completing his own hijacking. Our class expert, Tapan, was also in the Lab so I purposefully conveniently took the empty seat beside him. That proved to be a wise move. Step 1: ... http://mba683.blogsome.com/2006/08/30/hijacked/ LAMP stands for (L)inux (A)pache (M)ySQL (P)hp. More specifically: Linux refers to the free open source version of the operating system, Unix. Unix was originally meant for big machines; opposite from Windows. It involves creating a lot of small parts that interact with each other but is relatively user-hostile. Windows XP ... http://mba683.blogsome.com/2006/08/29/distro-is-not-a-fancy-word-for-disco/