Category: Linux

Old G4 + Debian Linux = Dirt cheap development machine

So last week my laptop died on me. Motherboard took a dive, and unfortunately that was my “main machine”. I know it takes me quite some time to find and fix up a machine, and decided a quick interim machine needed to be built. So I hit craigslist.

How to install Apache, PHP and MySQL in Ubuntu the easy way

Linux by nature attracts developers. It takes a good deal of knowledge and skill to install and run Linux on a daily basis, so this comes as no surprise. So many Linux users are also developers, either web, desktop or both. And when web developers want to develop in an environment that’s close to a webserver, running Apache on their machine is a natural choice.

How to install the Google GO compiler on Ubuntu Linux

This week google introduced “go” their new programming language. From the Go website: No major systems language has emerged in over a decade, but over that time the computing landscape has changed tremendously. There are several trends: Computers are enormously quicker but software development is not faster. Dependency management is a big part of software [...]

The psychology of parking.

I have a quite serious question for anyone reading out there. I’m far from a psychologist, and despite my many theories on social behavior, I have a hard time reasoning this one out. Today, I took a trip to the parts store after work. I had a broken door handle on my car, and it [...]

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