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OK so thats ZPanelX Beta7 released!

So after two weeks of bug fixing by myself and Rustus and the guys from the ‘Support Team’, this evening I’ve released Beta7, this includes the very last major changes for ZPX (the bandwidth calculation, disk usage stats etc.) and also fixes an issue with the webmail client (Roundcube) So I’m pleased to say that […]

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ZPanelX ‘internal’ beta going well so far!

Well we released ZPanelX internal beta to the rest of the team for a two week ‘testathon’ prior to opening it up to the community members who donated to our vBulletin drive 🙂 Although so far we’ve seen 15 bugs logged, pretty much all of which I’ve already squashed, I’ll be looking at releasing a […]

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How to install Gnome classic in Ubuntu 11.10

You may want to install and use Classic Gnome on your Ubuntu PC, unlike Ubuntu 11.04 the classic gnome desktop is no longer installed as an alternative to the new Unity desktop. I thought I’d quickly share how installed it on my Ubuntu 11.10 development machine, which now enables me to use either Unity or […]

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Google updates it’s web-mail (Gmail) GUI

It looks very nice too! Recently we have all seen Google change its web user interface from the old very basic buttons  and text  (which it carried for years) to a more fluid design which I think is great (although I will miss the simple controls that Google used to use :)) So for historical purposes […]

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Installing a Git server on Ubuntu Server 11.04

Well I know there are a lot of tutorials on the internet regarding the installation of Git server on Ubuntu but I thought I’d try to ‘KISS’ (Keep it simple stupid!), most of the tutorials are full of non-nessacery information and quite often don’t go into detail (or at least explain in an easy to […]

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Github, ReadyNAS Duo and ZPanel DNS module

Well I haven’t blog’d for a month so thought I’d better update you all with what’s been going on recently… Well I decided to give GitHub a try out (I’ve had an account registered on the site and I reserved the ZPanel project name) but haven’t yet given it much of a try-out but as […]

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How to remove the Docky icon from Docky (Ubuntu 11.04)

Well, I’ve transformed my Ubuntu 11.04 desktop to look like MacOSX (I think it looks sweet! ;)) Anyways… Here is how to remove the Docky Icon from Docky (so in my case it looks more like the normal MacOSX dock) Press ALT + F2 Type command “gconf-editor” and hit Enter Navigate to apps > docky-2 […]

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How to enable root login over SSH on FreeBSD 8.2

Unlike many linux distributions FreeBSD by default disables ‘root’ login over SSH (at least it does with FreeBSD 8.2), If you do need to enable remote root logins over SSH this simple blog post will show you what you need to do; the more secure way of gaining remote admin access to your server would […]

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Installing Apache, PHP and MySQL on FreeBSD 8.2

In this easy to follow tutorial I will show you how to install Apache, PHP and MySQL on FreeBSD, I have used FreeBSD 8.2 in this tutorial but should work for at least a couple of release’s later. I will be installing the software using FreeBSD ‘Ports’ you can also install software on FreeBSD using […]

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How to mount Windows Shared Folders on Linux

Well I thought I’d document how you can mount a SAMBA share on a Linux Server (in my case Ubuntu Server), I possibly have a project coming up soon where I may need to mount a Microsoft Windows based shared folder for additional storage/shared storage across multiple Linux/UNIX based web application servers. Firstly you must […]