My first order of business was to get the netbook running a dual boot configuration with Ubuntu and Windows. Once I determine that all the hardware works as expected under Ubuntu, I'll be removing windows completely. 

This tutorial assumes that you have a working, fully updated install of Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) running on your Dell Mini 10 (not the Mini 10v) and just need to get the Poulsbo driver working for the Intel GMA500. 

I’m sure you’ve seen the ads, a $1500 TV selling for $86.00, an $800 digital SLR selling for $50. After ignoring the ads for some time, I had to check-out Swoopo .

Upon visiting the site, I had 2 thoughts:

1.    Why didn’t I think of that?
2.    Wow, there are some stupid people out there!

I’ve read a lot recently about people thinking that Swoopo is a scam or a rip-off or something untoward and should be shut down. After looking into the site a bit, I whole-heartedly disagree. Swoopo is another means of entertainment and you do have to have a measure of intelligence to use the site.

To illustrate, I’d like to use two examples from the site ...

Dell's OpenManage Server Administrator is a powerful tool for keeping track of your server's health and making sure everything is running as it should. Unfortunately, Dell only released packages for RedHat and SuSE, so installing the software on Ubuntu can be tricky, at best.

There is some information on the Internet about getting the package to install on exotic distributions, but I never found anything definitive. This tutorial will guide you through installing the software and getting the web access up and running. 

My setup is: Dell 2950 with 1 Intel 2.2GHz Processor, 2GB RAM, PERC 5/i SCSI Raid Controller with 2 73GB 15K RPM SAS disks running Ubuntu 8.04.2 LTS 64-bit.

I recently encountered a problem on one of my servers with logrotate and the Apache web server. Logrotate is configured to run daily and help me keep all the log files at a manageable size. In the configuration, I have it set to rotate my Apache2 log files on a weekly basis.

The problem was, on one server, apache was not properly restarting after the log files were rotated. The script would run on Sunday morning, my logs would show that apache shutdown gracefully, but it would never come back up. The only log entry that gave me any indication of an issue was simply:
[notice] caught SIGWINCH, shutting down gracefully

In doing some research, I found that there were others with a similar issue, but no one had a solution. The best I could do was come up with a work-around. I created the following script and added it to my /etc/cron.hourly folder:
#!/bin/bash
if [ `pgrep apache2 -c` -le "0" ]; then /etc/init.d/apache2 start; fi

Now, every hour, this little script will count the number of apache processes that are running and, if it doesn't find any, start apache. 

Seems easy enough to me and, hopefully, this will help someone else out there, too.

Ciao!

It appears that changing the Windows Vista default logon account or removing the auto-login completely is a tricky thing to do.

In this tutorial, you will learn how to enable auto-logon, select a default account for auto-logon, or turn off the auto-logon feature. 

In my quest for a rackmount KVM that would not break the bank, I came across a number of older Compaq KVMs that would exactly suit my needs. While I was looking at the KVM trying to figure out how much I wanted to pay for it, I realized that there were no buttons or any hardware means of selecting the computer that you were viewing. It all had to be done from OSD.

This tutorial will describe how to install Subversion with SSL web access onto a home server. Subversion is a great way to keep track of a number of projects and have widespread access to all of your files. It doesn't matter if you are the only person that will be accessing the repository and don't need all of the version control features, it is still a great way to keep an eye on your projects and make sure you have your information wherever and whenever you need it.

This tutorial uses Ubuntu Server 8.04 with Apache2, OpenSSL, and WebDAV. It assumes that you have a properly setup server including Apache and OpenSSL, at least a little Linux knowledge, and access to the Linux command prompt with sudo access. This tutorial is geared toward the home Linux server and assumes that your ISP blocks all incoming ports below 1024.