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… Ask Freelock: Why Ubuntu? Submitted by John Locke on Thu, 06/05/2008 - 00:00 Patrick asks, Why not OpenSuSE, instead of Ubuntu? At Freelock , we provide a maintenance service …
… Ask Freelock: Why Ubuntu? Submitted by John Locke on Thu, 06/05/2008 - 01:50 Patrick asks, Why not OpenSuSE, instead of Ubuntu? At Freelock , we provide a maintenance service …
… Windows screwup forces Ubuntu shift Submitted by John Locke on Mon, 01/01/2007 - … about why Linux is the future: Windows screwup forces Ubuntu shift Add new comment You must have JavaScript enabled …
… F-Spot in Ubuntu photos in home directory Submitted by John Locke on Mon, 08/24/2009 - … I noticed a bunch of the photos were cluttering up my home directory. It turns out that the default photo manager … directory exists, so it just dumped all new photos in your home directory, regardless of what you set in the …
… A few notes on upgrading a Drupal dev workstation from Ubuntu 12.04 to 14.04 Submitted by John Locke on Sun, 04/20/2014 - 09:30 After using the latest Ubuntu Long Term Support release (14.04) on my laptop for the …
… Our server management plan includes monitoring, managing backups, and regular system updates from the operating system … Our server management plan includes monitoring, managing backups, and regular system updates from the operating system …
… Ubuntu desktop notes Submitted by freelock on Mon, 01/11/2010 … already had the Truecrypt deb package installed from Edgy (Ubuntu 6.10). Download Truecrypt tar.gz, untar. Create …
… under the web root, I highly recommend making sure the web server denies access to all .git* files for security reasons. Switching between trunk and a tag So far so good. We have the basics of an application set … Simple. Just check it out: cd public_html/dojo git tag # shows you a list of available tags git checkout …
… happened when we patched Most of our infrastructure uses Ubuntu LTS (Long-Term Support) releases. Ubuntu published … addresses turn into links automatically. Allowed HTML tags: <a href hreflang> <em> <strong> <blockquote cite> …
… On Vendor Lock-in Submitted by John Locke on Sat, 01/19/2008 - 03:10 I … the other day, and they had a discussion on vendor lock-in by open source distribution companies. I think they …
… on master is if we have to roll back to a previous release tag, if something truly went wrong. Staging is where things … Next it's a matter of doing the production deployment: Tag current production code commit Back up current production …
… to a new point release of Drupal means merging the new tag into our branch. Then we've written a script to update … and the development copy on develop. And it created a git tag for the particular release. On production, we have … back to development and re-roll the release. git log/git tag -- identify the current state of the code base -- should …
… who use SSL to replace their certificates and revoke the old ones, in case the private keys for the certificates were … new certificate with a new private key, and then have the old one revoked. Then change all your passwords. I don't have … part still relies on one more step -- revoking any old keys and certificates that might have been stolen. The …
… I would share what I use constantly. Operating System: Ubuntu Feisty Fawn, 7.10 Desktop Environment: Gnome (though I tend to prefer KDE overall, Ubuntu does a better job with Gnome, especially integrating …
… 8. While CentOS 7 is current, Ubuntu 16.04 is 3 years old and Debian 8 is 4 years old -- why don't they support Ubuntu 18.04 or Debian 9, both of which are 1 year old and have far more service life remaining? And, how …
… Desktop Computers Operating System Windows XP/Vista Ubuntu Word Processing Word OpenOffice Spreadsheets Excel … Desktop Computers Operating System Windows XP/Vista Ubuntu Word Processing Word OpenOffice Spreadsheets Excel …
… files. Here's a new article outlining how to do it in Ubuntu: Linux.com | Encrypt filesystems with EncFS and … files. Here's a new article outlining how to do it in Ubuntu: Linux.com | Encrypt filesystems with EncFS and …
… Once the dev site is updated, we create a new release tag and push it into our central git repository, where … regular backups of the files. We do a final snapshot/tag of the production code base, then pull down the new … Once the dev site is updated, we create a new release tag and push it into our central git repository, where …
… systems -- our bookkeeping software, our secondary backup system, some statistics packages, and a few other … us. The ironic thing about this is that our secondary backup system does actually run under CGI, so if this had …
… Ibex Submitted by John Locke on Sun, 10/26/2008 - 13:16 Ubuntu is about to release a new version of their operating … To get it working, I followed a how-to on the Ubuntu forums, basically installing libao, padevchooser, and …