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PC-Fit2 Web Server

On March 17, 2012 By

I’m now running a test web server on a PC-Fit2 which is the coolest little PC.  It’s got the same footprint as a coffee mug coaster, and is just a couple of centimetres high.

On it, I’m using Ubuntu server with Apache2 and Webmin.  Webmin also takes a lot of the effort out [...]

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NetBeans on Ubuntu

On October 11, 2011 By

I’ve been using NetBeans 6.9.1 which was the latest PHP version that I’d found, but also found that it wasn’t automatically updating.  I also tried using the standard package install, but had the same issues (a reported proxy error).  It turns out that the error is related to the version of Java SDK that NetBeans [...]

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My LAMP Server using VirtualBox

On October 9, 2011 By

I’m working on a VirtualBox image for a LAMP server.  There are a few good reasons to use a virtualised LAMP server:

Easy to back-up – you essentially only have a few files to back-up, rather than mirroring thousands of them. The footprint of the backup can also be kept small as you only need [...]

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Typing Japanese characters with Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic)

On February 6, 2011 By

There are quite a few tutorials on getting hiragana characters on Ubuntu, but many of them seem  rather complicated, and very few seem to mention Karmic at the time of writing (even though it’s been stable for a good few months now).  I won’t guarantee that this will work for everyone with Ubuntu Karmic, so [...]

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