Tag Archives: dvd

How to Check MD5SUM of Downloads – Reader Questions

Posted on December 6, 2009 by Roger Wheatley

Steve emailed asking: “…because all the DVDs I was burning were useless. Thanks for helping with that, only thing, how do I check the md5sum stuff? Should there be a separate file showing what it is? Where do I find … Continue reading →

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Getting Ubuntu – Reader Questions

Posted on June 16, 2009 by Roger Wheatley

“Steve” asks: “I would like to download linux to cd but don’t want it on the host computer how do I do that?” I’m not exactly sure what you’re asking, do you mean you don’t want it installed on the … Continue reading →

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Build a Web Developer PC and Enable Most Media Playback Using Ubuntu Linux

Posted on March 16, 2009 by Roger Wheatley

For those of you who follow my other blog, you’ll know that my last Windows PC had a major failure again. You can read some of the specifics in the “When Disaster Strikes – Again” post. At that point I … Continue reading →

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Installing an Ubuntu Linux Hardy 8.04 LAMP and FFMpeg Server With a GUI – Installation of OpenSSH.

Posted on July 17, 2008 by Roger Wheatley

In the last installment, I covered what was done to install LAMP on the server. But remember that we did not install SSH. Why is SSH important? It allows us to remotely connect to the server using tools such as … Continue reading →

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Installing an Ubuntu Linux Hardy 8.04 LAMP and FFMpeg Server With a GUI – LAMP installation with cgi-bin

Posted on June 25, 2008 by Roger Wheatley

The last post I covered the hardware installation for this project. For this section, we’re going to use Ubuntu Linux (8.04 LTS Server Edition 64-bit) to install the LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) server. If you don’t have that software … Continue reading →

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Installing an Ubuntu Linux Hardy 8.04 LAMP and FFMpeg Server With a GUI – Introduction.

Posted on June 18, 2008 by Roger Wheatley

It’s been several day’s since I’ve had the chance to post (I’ve been super busy), so it’s good to have a moment to sit and put my thoughts to pixels (so to speak). Introduction: This is the introductory post to … Continue reading →

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130 Useful Linux Based LiveCD Versions.

Posted on April 28, 2008 by Roger Wheatley

Recently several people asked me about trying Linux without actually installing it. Obviously the first thing that came to mind is to try versions via LiveCD. For those not familiar, LiveCD means: “A CD-ROM that contains a working copy of … Continue reading →

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