I received an email this morning from Full Circle Magazine (they are a "...FREE Independent Magazine (and podcast) for the Ubuntu Linux Community...") saying that the latest publication is out; and was happy to see that one of my posts, Make Your Own Plug ‘N Play Zone Using Ubuntu Linux!, was featured in the latest Issue #14! 
You can download and read the latest publication (which includes the "Make Your Own Plug ‘N Play Zone Using Ubuntu Linux!" post) here: Issue 14 is out!
For those not aware, I posted...
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The last post I covered the hardware installation for this project. For this section, we're going to use Ubuntu Linux (8.04 LTS Server Edition 64-bit) to install the LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) server. If you don't have that software available, you can get it using the following venues:
1. Download the iso image from: http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download and burn it to a CD.
2. Order the CD from https://shipit.ubuntu.com/login-server.
Once you have a copy, make sure the BIOS on the PC is set to boot of...
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As mentioned in the introduction (where I listed the hardware and software I used for this hands-on project), we need to ensure that our hardware is set-up and working before moving on.
To recap, here is the list of hardware used:
Shuttle SN68SG2 Socket AM2 Barebone - NVIDIA 7025, Audio, Video, PCI Express, Gigabit LAN, USB 2.0, Firewire, Serial ATA, 250 Watt Power Supply.
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ Processor ADA4200CUBOX - 2.20GHz, 1MB Cache, 1000MHz (2000 MT/s) FSB, Windsor, Dual-Core, Retail, Socket AM2, Processor ...
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It's been several day's since I've had the chance to post (I've been super busy), so it's good to have a moment to sit and put my thoughts to pixels (so to speak).
Introduction:
This is the introductory post to a full series where I'll be posting how I installed an Ubuntu Linux LAMP (Apache, MySQL, PHP and cgi-bin) server with a GUI (I needed to use it as a desktop PC at the same time), the appropriate media playback codecs (flash, DVD, MP3, Quicktime MOV, WMV, WMA, MP4, M4A), OpenSSH, PureFTP an...
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