Jun 6, 2013
How To Install Bluefish 2.2.4 on Fedora 18
Bluefish is a great Web Development IDE for Linux / Windows and Mac OSX. Having the latest and greatest on Fedora 18 is always a plus and sadly in the repositories it is at 2.2.3 and not 2.2.4, but great news we can take care of that in short order. If you have installed Fedora’s supplied Bluefish you will need to uninstall it. $ sudo rpm -e bluefish bluefish-shared-data Now let’s download the... read more
Jun 3, 2013
Using the Raspberry Pi as a NAS
Here we have another great use for the Raspberry Pi as a NAS server for your LAN. In this post we’ll be using a Thermaltake BlacX USB SATA attached to the Pi with a 1 TB drive with ntfs shared to the Windows and MAC systems for access. Install ntfs support $ sudo apt-get install ntfs-3g Create the mount directory and mount it $ sudo mkdir /media/ext Mount as ntfs as user id pi $sudo mount -t auto... read more
May 30, 2013
How to Install Tiny Tiny RSS on Fedora 18
If you are an avid reader of RSS feeds then you are aware of Google Reader and Google’s decision to remove the service, leaving users scrambling for a replacement. One such solution is a standalone system so you do not have to rely on a service that may go away. With Linux there are many open sourced options available. One such option is Tiny Tiny RSS which runs using the standard LAMP stack on your... read more
May 27, 2013
How To Use A Raspberry Pi as a Web Server
The Raspberry Pi is a wonderful little device. A powerful compact computer that is quiet and low power consumption makes it nice for many tasks. One such for me is a web server with PHP and MySQL. In this post that’s exactly what we are shooting for, a web server. First let’s make sure we are up to date. $ sudo apt-get update Install Apache and PHP $ sudo apt-get install apache2 php5... read more
May 21, 2013
Install Tomcat 7 and Java 1.7 on CentOS 6 RHEL 6
In this post we will cover how to install the Apache Tomcat 7 and jre 1.7 on CentOS 6 and RHEL 6. This process doesn’t use the rpm’s from the Redhat repositories, but uses the latest tar balls from Apache and Oracle. We will also be using service accounts to control Tomcat and its processes. Download latest Tomcat from http://tomcat.apache.org/download-70.cgi. Version 7.0.40 is the curent... read more
