Post date: November 7, 2007
Something that will probably be needed if you going to be developing in Ruby on Rails on Ubuntu is MySql. So here’s a very quick run through of how to set it up. As per Ubuntu-usual, it is really easy to setup and the longest part of the setup, depending on your internet connection, is the download of MySql server 5.
1) Open up and terminal and type sudo apt-get install mysql-server
2) Open the /etc/mysql/my.cnf file in your text editor and replace 127.0.01 with your computer’s IP address
3) During the install it should ask you for root password for mySql but if it doesn’t type the following:
mysql> SET PASSWORD FOR ‘root’@’localhost’ = PASSWORD(’myPasswordHere’);
Obviously where I’ve typed myPasswordHere you’ll enter your desired password.
I am currently working on nice little Ruby on Rails post so check back soon!
Post date: October 28, 2007
I’ve found yet another amazing little tool in Ubuntu. BloGTK is a weblogging client for the Linux platform. It was incredibly quick to setup and its very easy to use.
Yet another reason to install Ubuntu 
Post date: October 26, 2007
So last night I installed Ubuntu. Here are a few things that impressed me so much.
1) I could surf the net and listen to music from my windows partition while it was installing (BIG PLUS)
2) Once it had installed, I set up my graphic drivers in under 20min (19minutes download time for the drivers). I used an app called Envy to update my ATI X1600 drivers
3) I could use my “local only” bandwidth to update Ubuntu’s packages and from Ubuntu 7.04 to 7.10
4) When I wanted to watch an XVID file, it asked me if I wanted to search for codecs and within 30s those codecs had been found and installed and the video was playing
5) During installation, Ubuntu detected my Windows partition, my account on windows and copied all of the “My Documents” folder over to my Linux partition
6) It ever retrieve and set my background image from windows into Ubuntu
7) I had Beryl installed in less than 10minutes using the Add/Remove Programs function. 
When I opened FireFox, all of my Favourites from Flock on my windows partition has been copied over.
9) When I hit the print Screen Key, A dialog appeared and prompted me for the location to save the image to and which file format I wanted.
10) within 15 minutes my ipod had synced with RhythmBox (The Linux verison of iTunes it seems)
So there we go. Seriously consider Ubuntu. I will be installing VMware tonight so that I can install windows into that for development purposes.
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Post date: October 25, 2007
So after one too many problems with Windows I have decided its time to put windows where it can’t hurt me anymore. In a virtual Machine. What do I use windows for anyway? I only use it for development. So I’ve decided to return to Linux. Now its been years since I installed Linux in any form and stuck with it. I’ve heard so much about Ubuntu over the last while that I decided to give it a try.
All I’m gonna say is “WOW”. There’s no other way to describe this. I will go into more detail soon, probably over the weekend. Seriously look into this if you’re sick of windows.