Life in apps, OSs and code!Well I must say today marks a special day in the history of the Zpanel project… For the first time since Zpanel 2.5 was classed as ‘stable’ all those many moons ago… this morning I configured and customised the current ZPanel 6.0.0 code which was developed solely for Windows really on Ubuntu Linux – obviously […]
Ok, well as the title suggests… I haven’t posted in ages to my blog so this morning I am hoping to update you all with what has been going on recently… Well… I have decided to work on and release a new version of ZPanel (ZPanelX) which will is to be developed on Linux and […]
Well I should really be asshamed of myself (not have posted a blog post since Novemeber last year!!!) but to be honest with you all I have been very busy with many different things and haven’t really had anytime over the last month or two to do very much coding at all 🙁 But anyway, […]
If you would have asked me several years ago what I thought of Apple Mac’s I would have pretty much spat at you, I found them to be a ‘kiddies toy’ that designers used (to be fair at the time it was OS9) or maybe I was just blind!??!!!?!?? ….However, since which time I have started […]
Well the last month has been very eventful with regards to the projects that I have been running/involved in…. I have released ZPanel 6.0.0 Alpha1 on Sunday for testing and so far so good so hopefully a full upgrade release will be released as stable very soon as soon as everyone from the ZPanel team […]
In this guide I will be explaining how you can create a PPTP (Point to point tunnelling protocol) VPN using Ubuntu Server 10.04 LTS release, this should also work for other versions of Ubuntu Server too! Ok so there are many types of VPN’s (PPTP, L2TP etc. etc.) PPTP is not the most secure type […]
Hi all, Another feature that I needed for my project over at zpanel.co.uk was an SVN server so that other members of my team can download the source code, make changes and upload it back to the master server. So this quick tutorial will show you the basics of how to setup an SVN server […]
This month on my ‘main’ project (ZPanel) I have changed the download mirror network system, previously I wrote a PHP mirror syncronisation web app which would syncronise files to all pulic mirrors but after about 3 years of it being in use and the main repository getting rather full and slowing everything down I have […]
As you can proberbly tell from my other blog posts I really do like Ubuntu although I also admire CentOS/Redhat but for sheer simplicity and non-bloat installation I do like this awesome distrubution. Ok so nowadays more and more people have more than one PC or network device at home and therefore it would be […]
A recently I have been playing around with Ubuntu Server 10.04 and various little projects etc. I thought I’d write a tutorial on how you can create a network accessable or local Ubuntu package repository. For this tutorial I am using Ubuntu 10.04 Server release on an old Compaq Proliant DL320. The sole purpose of […]