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An Idiot’s Guide To Installing !Habari (Part Two)

Posted by David on Friday, December 18, 2009 at 9:56 pm. Comments

So, where was I? Oh, yes. Installing Habari. For my next trick, I thought I’d have a go at installing WordPress instead. I found the Ubuntu How To Install WordPress Guide (admittedly for Ubuntu 6.06 not 10.09). I followed the instructions. In particular, I followed the instructions on how to install Apache, MySQL and PHP. I installed [...]

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An Idiot’s Guide To Installing !Habari (Part One)

Posted by David on Sunday, December 6, 2009 at 12:52 am. Comments

how do I get started on cake - I mean !habari - I know I need to buy hosting, but is there an idiot's guide (or a guide for idiots)?

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Spotlight On Ubuntu: Why I Love Karmic Koala

Posted by David on Thursday, October 29, 2009 at 6:53 pm. Comments

Ubuntu Karmic Koala 9.10 is released today, Thursday 29 October. Ubuntu has been around for a while, of course. I’ve been using it as my operating system of choice for about four and a half years and I’m writing this post because I’m so totally impressed with the new version. I just want to say [...]

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How To Triple Boot An Asus Eee Box

Posted by David on Tuesday, January 13, 2009 at 10:45 pm. Comments

Last year at work, we decided we needed new computers. The ones we had were old, probably seven or eight years old at a guess, running Windows 2000 on 10 GB hard drives, 128 MB RAM and chunky 15″ CRT monitors. As standalone machines with this setup and no internet, they worked fine. But people [...]

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A Perfect Windows Setup? Using VirtualBox On Ubuntu Linux (Not A HowTo)

Posted by David on Sunday, March 23, 2008 at 7:42 pm. Comments

I’ve been using Ubuntu Linux as my operating system of choice on my home PC for quite a while now. I think it was Xmas 2004 when I finally lost patience with my Windows XP Home experience after accidentally – and, admittedly, stupidly – “cleaning” out my Windows folder of essential system files. Anyway, after a [...]

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