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I recently received a comment on one of my Ubuntu tutorials about installing some perl modules. I didn’t want to mess with my stable server configuration, so I decided to install another instance of Ubuntu Server in a copy of Virtual PC 2007 that I received through DreamSpark. The process was not as seamless as I had hoped. I kept getting the following error:
An unrecoverable processor error has been encountered.
The virtual machine will reset now.
Reset
I managed to get it up and running perfectly with a little help from fellow bloggers. Here’s how:
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Today I helped a friend, who has a blog on my server, login to his his wordpress dashboard. He forgot his password and the forgot password link wouldn’t work because the server does not have a SMTP server for it to use. I managed to reset the password by modifying the password field in his [...]
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About three weeks ago, I posted about my adsense campaign and how I was going to make tons of money to help pay for the web server that hosts this blog. About a week later, I got together with a few friends who also host blogs on my server and we discided to coorporately host ads and do our best to [...]
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When I started this blog, I told myself that I could average 100 hits per day, I would host ads on my page to help pay myself back for the web server. Well, its been almost 10 months, and I average right about 70 hits per day, with the occasional spike from a sharing site [...]
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SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) allows you to transmit information securely from client to server using any modern web browser. This is especially useful when transmitting credit card information and other sensitive data (passwords) to the server through a web form. With an SSL connection, this can be done without risk of 3rd party data interception.
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Yesterday I got an email from the Honors College concerning a job opening as a Web Designer for SSYC, Sophomore & Second Year Center advising. I contacted them, they contacted me back, and eventually I ended up on the other side of Robert Snow’s desk, the director of SSYC advising. The pre-interview went fairly well; I showed [...]
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Wordpress is a free blogging application that can be installed onto a LAMP server, such as Ubuntu Server 8. It is secure, customizable, expandable, affordable, and anything else that you could want in a self-hosted blog. There are plenty of resources avalible on this subject, but I will attempt to break it down to specific steps and commands.
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Virtual hosting allows you to host multiple websites, accessed by unique domain names, from the same IP address (same server). I use this technique on my web server to host multiple websites for myself and a few others. Setting up virtual hosting is not difficult, and can be done with a stock Ubuntu 8.04 server [...]
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Once your web server is installed and configured, its time to get online. The following is a guide on how to connect your server to a domain purchased through Namecheap. I chose to use Namecheap because of their cost and ease of configuring dynamic DNS. This meathod assumes that your server is connected to your [...]
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In my last blog post, I surfaced a very annoying “feature” concerning the way Wordpress does its formatting. It automatically replaces double hyphens “--” with long dashes “–”. This obviously became a problem when I was quoting Linux commands for my tutorial.