Tweaked for your Pleasure

Today’s post is all about installing WordPress by using something known as svn. For this, you will need SSH access on your webhost (or your own system will do fine). If your webhost don’t offer, SSH tell them to look at what they are offering again as SSH is a much needed service if you do this crap alot.
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Today, this is a short and sweet tutorial on how to install a little webserver with PHP, MySQL and Apache so that you can do local web development. I would not advice to use this on a production server as it is unsecured.

Apache is the world mostly used web server and honestly, can be annoying to setup. Luckly, what we are going to be usiing is known as XAMPP for Linux (Used to be called LAMPP) and this is a little tutorial on how to install it, run it, secure it up a bit, where the config files and then, uninstalling.
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So, last week, we had a look at what Compiz Fusion is and what exactly it has to offer.

This week, we will look at what it takes to properly install your graphics drivers, followed by Compiz Fusion’s Settings Manager. Now, as it happens, I managed to find a 3-part video guide on how to do this, which helped me quite a bit when I was getting my own system set up. These videos are a little out of date, but the steps taken still apply:  Read more... (231 words, estimated 55 secs reading time)

Compiz Fusion.

Who knows what that is? I’ll make an intro to it anyway, just in case.

Compiz Fusion is a Window Manager for Linux (specifically, for X, which most distros use anyway). But it goes beyond the features you would usually expect in a typical OS; it has an array of 3D effects which not only look awesome, but have some degree of practicality.

It is actually a merge of two similar projects called Beryl and Compiz, the latter of which was forked from Beryl after some disputes over methods used for handling of documentation, updates, etc. I believe both projects were merged about two years ago, possibly a bit less.  Read more... (461 words, estimated 1:51 mins reading time)

Installing Zivios Server On Ubuntu

This howto explains installing Zivios
Master Service version 0.5.0. Zivios is an n-tiered PHP-5 application,
providing identity management, single sign-on, user, group and computer
provisioning, as well as remote management of services. It uses MySQL
and OpenLDAP as
it’s data store, with OpenLdap being the primary back end for identity
management and application
integration and MySQL being used for panel specific data.

Minimal Ubuntu 8.04 Server Install

I find myself removing packages that I don’t need, especially if the
packages belong to processes that are using processor resources. There
is a way to start from the ground up, you can have a minimal system and
just add what you need. This has the added benefit of extra security,
your system doesn’t have services running that you don’t use. You won’t
use a Ubuntu Server CD, but the Desktop Live CD.