https://www.skwashd.net/tags/ubuntu/Recent content in ubuntu on Dave Hall (@skwashd)Hugo -- gohugo.ioenSat, 02 Apr 2011 00:00:00 +0000https://www.skwashd.net/posts/2011-04-02-fixing-zimbras-broken-debs/Sat, 02 Apr 2011 00:00:00 +0000https://www.skwashd.net/posts/2011-04-02-fixing-zimbras-broken-debs/As much as I love Zimbra, I find their Debian packaging frustrating. Why do they insist on shipping half broken debs?https://www.skwashd.net/posts/2010-12-28-100-drupal-site-series-part-4-platforms/Tue, 28 Dec 2010 00:00:00 +0000https://www.skwashd.net/posts/2010-12-28-100-drupal-site-series-part-4-platforms/So far in this series we have covered a potential target market and business plan, resources and infrastructure and the tools required to deliver Drupal sites with a sale price of $100 per site.https://www.skwashd.net/posts/2010-06-26-multi-core-apache-solr-ubuntu-1004-drupal-auto-provisioning/Mon, 28 Jun 2010 00:00:00 +0000https://www.skwashd.net/posts/2010-06-26-multi-core-apache-solr-ubuntu-1004-drupal-auto-provisioning/Apache Solr is an excellent full text index search engine based on Lucene. Solr is increasingly being used in the Drupal community for search.https://www.skwashd.net/posts/2010-02-11-packaging-doctrine-debian-and-ubuntu/Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0000https://www.skwashd.net/posts/2010-02-11-packaging-doctrine-debian-and-ubuntu/I have been indoctrinated into to the everything on production machines should be packaged school of thought.https://www.skwashd.net/posts/2010-02-04-packaging-drush-and-dependencies-debian/Thu, 04 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0000https://www.skwashd.net/posts/2010-02-04-packaging-drush-and-dependencies-debian/Lately I have been trying to avoid non packaged software being installed on production servers. The main reason for this is to make it easier to apply updates.https://www.skwashd.net/posts/2009-12-08-drbd-ubuntu-karmic/Tue, 08 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0000https://www.skwashd.net/posts/2009-12-08-drbd-ubuntu-karmic/Ubuntu 9.10 (aka karmic koala) has a frustrating packaging bug. Even though the stock server kernel includes the DRBD module, the drbd8-utils package depends on drbd8-source.https://www.skwashd.net/posts/2008-02-02-hello-planet-ubuntu-australia/Sat, 02 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000https://www.skwashd.net/posts/2008-02-02-hello-planet-ubuntu-australia/Last week my blog was added to Planet Ubuntu Australia, the syndication site for Australian Ubuntu LoCo participants' blogs.https://www.skwashd.net/posts/2007-11-18-my-new-toy-nokia-n95/Sun, 18 Nov 2007 00:00:00 +0000https://www.skwashd.net/posts/2007-11-18-my-new-toy-nokia-n95/About 7 weeks ago I bought a Nokia N95 and I love it. I considered the Neo 1973 from openMoko, a completely open phone platform was appealing, but at the end of the day it isn’t certified for Australia, it doesn’t have WIFI or a camera nor does it do HSDPA/3G, all things on my must have list.https://www.skwashd.net/posts/2007-09-28-ubuntu-gutsy/Fri, 28 Sep 2007 00:00:00 +0000https://www.skwashd.net/posts/2007-09-28-ubuntu-gutsy/For the last few weeks I have been running the upcoming Ubuntu 7.10 release (aka Gutsy Gibbon) on my laptop, which is also my primary PC.https://www.skwashd.net/posts/2007-06-25-warm-glow-sun/Mon, 25 Jun 2007 00:00:00 +0000https://www.skwashd.net/posts/2007-06-25-warm-glow-sun/Last week I received an email from Sun asking if I had seen a previous email.https://www.skwashd.net/posts/2007-06-07-wget-and-members-areas/Thu, 07 Jun 2007 00:00:00 +0000https://www.skwashd.net/posts/2007-06-07-wget-and-members-areas/Earlier this evening I was discussing mirroring restricted areas of sites with wget on #ubuntu-au. The solution is pretty simple.https://www.skwashd.net/posts/2007-05-29-ubuntu-dell-pcs-and-xp-license-refunds/Tue, 29 May 2007 00:00:00 +0000https://www.skwashd.net/posts/2007-05-29-ubuntu-dell-pcs-and-xp-license-refunds/Now that Dell is shipping Ubuntu loaded machines in the US, there has been some discussion on the Australian Ubuntu LoCo list about when Dell will be shipping them in Australia.https://www.skwashd.net/posts/2007-05-26-os-x-and-macs-windows-killer/Sat, 26 May 2007 00:00:00 +0000https://www.skwashd.net/posts/2007-05-26-os-x-and-macs-windows-killer/For the last week I have almost exclusively been using a PowerPC Mac - claimed by Apple to be a great platform just a few years a ago.https://www.skwashd.net/posts/2007-04-23-bye-bye-php-4/Mon, 23 Apr 2007 00:00:00 +0000https://www.skwashd.net/posts/2007-04-23-bye-bye-php-4/I have several servers running PHP 5 already, but as my laptop is my primary phpGroupWare development and test environment, it was running PHP 4.https://www.skwashd.net/posts/2006-11-22-sun-sunfire-t2000-rev2-and-ubuntu-dapper-6-06/Wed, 22 Nov 2006 00:00:00 +0000https://www.skwashd.net/posts/2006-11-22-sun-sunfire-t2000-rev2-and-ubuntu-dapper-6-06/A couple of months ago I received a shiny new Sun SunFire T2000. It is a monster 1 CPU with 8 cores, each capable of running 4 threads each (that is 32 concurrent threads) 8G of RAM and 2 x 73.