Monthly Archives: July 2012
Bad Idea: Massachusetts E-Cigarette Tax Bill
H.4291 (link) would change Massachusetts’ definition of ‘smokeless tobacco’ for tax purposes to include electronic cigarettes and dissolvable tobacco. This bill would also: Increase the MA smokeless tobacco tax rate from 90% to 110% of wholesale price, and also tax electronic cigarettes and dissolvables at 110% of wholesale price. The bill has been introduced by […]
How to: Install WordPress in Ubuntu Server 12.04 LTS
WordPress is a free and open source blogging tool and a dynamic content management system (CMS) based on PHP and MySQL. It has many features including a plug-in architecture and a template system. WordPress is used by over 14.7% of Alexa Internet’s “top 1 million” websites and as of August 2011 manages 22% of all new websites. WordPress is currently the […]
How to: Install webmin in Ubuntu 12.04
To install webmin in Ubuntu 12.04, open terminal and add the following repository: 1- Edit /etc/apt/sources.list file sudo vi /etc/apt/sources.list 2- Add the following lines deb http://download.webmin.com/download/repository sarge contrib deb http://webmin.mirror.somersettechsolutions.co.uk/repository sarge contrib Save and exit the file 3- Now you need to import GPG key wget http://www.webmin.com/jcameron-key.asc sudo apt-key add jcameron-key.asc 4- Update the […]
How to: Install LAMP on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP) is an open source Web development platform that uses Linux as operating system, Apache as the Web server, MySQL as the relational database management system and PHP as the object-oriented scripting language. Open terminal and Type the command :install it first with sudo apt-get install tasksel Now to install LAMP, type the taskel command in terminal : sudo […]
Problems with RDP Connections on Windows Server 2008 R2
Overview Recently we came across a nasty issue when remotely connecting to Windows Server 2008 R2 machines via RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol). In this case, these servers were actually Domain Controllers and not full featured terminal servers, but we’ve seen issues with these as well. Failing to use RDP to these servers caused the administrators […]
How to Configure a Static IP in Ubuntu
edit /etc/network/interfaces # This file describes the network interfaces available on your system # and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5). # The loopback network interface auto lo iface lo inet loopback # The primary network interface auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static address 192.168.1.250 netmask 255.255.255.0 network 192.168.1.0 broadcast 192.168.1.255 gateway […]
Ubuntu server log monitoring via email without the need of a mail server (SendEmail)
Reblogged from My Linux Blog: Found a handy Tutorial on unbuntuforums on how to set up a server to email logs without the need of a mail server. It uses a couple of programmes called Sendemail and logwatch . I had to make a few changes to the guide to make it work on my […]
The Movement Festival Ticket Sales
Reblogged from CyberSNAC, Inc.: Tickets are now on sale for The Movement Festival and CyberSNAC, Inc. along with PayPal is providing the online store and payment gateway. Please visit their site themovementfestival.com for more information! If you’re in the New England/Boston area, you should really go see these guys!
No Going Back
Reblogged from The Obama Diary: Stephanie Miller of Sandusky, Ohio cries on the shoulder of President Obama at a campaign event at Washington Park in Sandusky, Ohio. Miller’s sister died of cancer and said that Obama’s healthcare plan would have given her better treatment options ThinkProgress: President Obama stopped shaking hands for a moment today […]
Blizzard Customer Service WTF!?
Let me just start by saying that I have played Blizzard games since the original Warcraft and Diablo games were released. Years. I’m not some whiny teen-age or twenty-something. Not by a long shot. Recently I’ve started playing Diablo 3 and the lead up to playing it involved purchasing not 1 but 3 copies of […]
