Blogs of the House of LAN
Resolve .local domains
Many Linux distros come pre-configured with zeroconf, which lets machines resolve each other in a peer-to-peer manner. This is fine, except they chose the .local domain, which will conflict with any .local domain you may have set up in DNS.
Kubuntu Intrepid
So, the latest and greatest version of the greatest Distro ever is out (haha flamebait :P), and I thought it would be good to document how my install went, so others might be able to get their system up and running nicely. But first:
ATi Graphics Cards and Kubuntu
I've had bad experiences with ATi cards and Linux before. Happily it was not the case this time. Here's how I set up my Sapphire ATi Radeon 3870 HD. I also throw in the desktop effects install at the end.
Backup your LAMP
Continuing with the backup theme of my last post, I've needed to back up our local LAMP server because its starting to hold some important data. Maybe I'm getting paranoid because of my first hard drive failure in 10 years (the last one was a 2GB HDD that got progressively larger areas of dead sectors, so it was a nice gradual death). Maybe I've just been taught a lesson and am starting to do what I always should have done anyway. In any case, here is the little script I wrote:
Backups are go
My Zimbra server's hard drive burnt out the other week while I was on holiday in Nelson. Crap no backups! Luckily I had only recently downgraded from my Network Edition trial to the Open Source edition, which involved backing up the old install. Hence how my Zimbra on Ubuntu tutorial came about.
Kubuntu with fakeraid
Updated! This page now reflects Kubuntu Hardy Heron (8.04 LTS)
Zimbra on Ubuntu
Here's how I set up my Zimbra colaboration suite on Ubuntu 6.06 Server Edition.