Archive for May, 2008

Redmine on Dreamhost with Passenger

Friday, May 16th, 2008

As of May 13, 2008 Dreamhost provides a feature called Passenger for Ruby on Rails. This make is significantly easier to install Ruby On Rails Apps on Dreamhost!!!
The following is how I install Redmine on Dreamhost with Passenger

From the Dreamhost control panel, create a new subdomain for the application such as yoursubdomain.yourdomain.com

Make sure the domain [...]

Location of “Trash” in Ubuntu 8.04

Thursday, May 15th, 2008

Not sure when the happened, but the location of “Trash” has moved from “~/.Trash” to “~/.local/share/Trash”.  There is also a new structure for the trash folder.  It has a directory named “files” for the deleted files. There is an additional directory named “info” which contains when the files were deleted & where they were deleted [...]

Redmine on Dreamhost

Monday, May 12th, 2008

As of May 13, 2008 Dreamhost provides a feature called Passenger for Ruby on Rails. This make is significantly easier to install Ruby On Rails Apps on Dreamhost!!! Use this method instead (Click Here)

http://alandaveline.com/blog/2008/05/16/redmine-on-dreamhost-with-passenger/
The following is how I install Redmine on Dreamhost

From the Dreamhost control panel, create a new subdomain for the application such as [...]

rake aborted! No such file or directory - /tmp/mysql.sock

Monday, May 12th, 2008

To resolve this issues, change the “localhost” in yourrailsapp/config/database.yml to “127.0.0.1″

How to Install Fonts in Ubuntu 8.04

Saturday, May 10th, 2008

The way to install fonts in Ubuntu 8.04 has changed a little, and in my option it is a bit easier.

open the “.fonts” folder in your home directory

You probably have to create it first
make sure you can view hidden files

copy your font files to this folder
next time you open your application, the fonts should be [...]

Ubuntu/Firefox 3 Huge CSS Font Fix

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008

Recently after upgrading to Ubuntu 8.04/Firefox 3, all of my CSS fonts have been HUGE! I didn’t have the opportunity to look for a solution, so I have been using Opera as my primary browser. After finally getting a little time to dig, I found a quick fix using the following steps.

Type “about:config” in the [...]

Dell Knows Linux

Monday, May 5th, 2008

Seems that Dell is a pretty good judge of Linux character
First major company to factory install Red Hat Linux corporate systems.
http://www.redhat.com/about/news/prarchive/1999/press_linuxsuccess.html
First to install ubuntu in 2007
http://www.ubuntu.com/news/dell-to-offer-ubuntu

Switching the port for the built-in ColdFusion web server

Friday, May 2nd, 2008

Straight from the ColdFusion Documentation
You can change the port on which the built-in web server runs.
To change the port for the built-in web server:
1. Back up the jrun.xml file.
This file is in the cf_root\runtime\servers\default\SERVER-INF directory in Windows, and in the cf_root/runtime/servers/default/SERVER-INF directory on UNIX.
2. Open the original jrun.xml file for editing.
3. Change the port number [...]