Ok I’ve been mentally blue-printing a new application in my head to do various tasks but thats not important, however I want this scalable application to be able to allow the end user to be able to connect to different ‘selectable’ databases such as a training database, UAT and production. Instead of having a seperate […]
Month: July 2010
I had a little hunt around online this evening for a graphical user interface for MySQL on my Linux workstation which is running Ubuntu 10.04 – In the past I’ve always just used the terminal and raw MySQL commands but to be honest this can be some what time consuming so I thought I’d share […]
Ok so I’ve managed to find an article on the net about how to change the default applications menu in Ubuntu, this will enable you to change it to whatever you like (instead of the default distrubution icon) Itâs dead easy, but everyone else tries to make it sound so complicated. So hereâs the dead […]
This blog entry shows how you can easily change the appearance of your Ubuntu 10.04 desktop so that it looks and feels like an Apple Mac. This is done using freely available software and only take you about 10-15 minutes. I will be installing Elementary and Docky to make this happen! Elementary is a project […]
Creating a VB.net web browser is an extremly simple task. So much so that itâs a great way to introduce yourself the the language. We shall be using the full version of Visual Basic .Net 2008, but the express editions will work Perfectly fine. Letâs get started shall we? First open VB and create a […]
These days many more companies are using mixed IT enviroments using a mixture of Windows, Linux, UNIX and Mac’s and I for one am using a mixture of Microsoft Windows and Linux (Ubuntu). On my network I use a Microsoft Active Directory and want to be able to get all Server (Linux & Windows) as […]
In this post I will be showing you how you can install a fresh copy of Ubuntu on a server using two Hard disk drives either ATA or SATA drives, I would recommend using proper server hardware as if one of the HDD controllers fail then you still wont be able to reboot your server […]
After getting three old Dell Dimension L1000R desktop PC’s after work was going to throw them out I decided to turn one of them into a Linux server mainly for me to have sitting on the internet mainly to use for remote backups and remote access to documents and other stuff I want to keep […]
For months now I have been trying to setup a fast, reliable linux mail server. I think I have now cracked it. Basically my system layout is as follows; I have been developing a new social community site called UrbanParty (www.urbanparty.net), The application is ran on my Ubuntu Linux server and uses SMTP to send […]
For several months now, I have wanted to setup a fast, secure FTP server so that I myself and users of my server are able to login but can only view and browse there ‘home’ directory.. basically /home/{username}. I have previously tried installing ProFTPd but I have found that to be really slow with clients […]