Posts Tagged ‘Ubuntu’

How to install PHP memcached on an Ubuntu server

Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

I needed to install memcached on my local development server the other day and hit several snags during the process when I couldn’t find a clear guide. It doesn’t help that there’s another package floating around called “memcache” which is not the same as “memcached”.

Fortunately I found this post in German which Google kindly translated for me, and it solved my problems.

Since the translation screws up some of the code, I thought I would post the steps here in English in case anyone finds it useful. (more…)

Clonezilla is pretty much awesome at system recovery

Saturday, July 11th, 2009

Cross-platform Clonezilla is a great tool for handling your system backup and system restore needs. Just tested it out using the Live CD on my laptop and found it to be very fast and very successful. (more…)

Upgrading to VirtualBox 3.0 causes Linux guest to hang [Solved]

Wednesday, July 8th, 2009

I got to work a little early this morning and decided to upgrade to the new VirtualBox 3.0, which I use to run Ubuntu 9.04 as a guest on my 64-bit Windows Vista host machine.

The upgrade was simple as always and I experienced no issues … until I tried to boot up my Ubuntu VM. It appeared to hang during boot up, and finally ended in a kernel panic. Every time.

There’s an easy fix, however, which I found here after a quick Google search. The solution is to change the VM settings for the network adapter from “PCnet-FAST III” to “Intel PRO/1000 MT Desktop”.

How to install and set up Adobe Flex SDK on Ubuntu linux

Thursday, May 14th, 2009

With the open source Adobe Flex SDK, developers using any operating system and any text editor or IDE can create rich Internet applications that compile into SWF files. This guide is for those wanting to install and set up the Flex SDK on Ubuntu linux. (more…)