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Linux : Ubuntu : Mounting USB Drive Mass Media Drive or Flash Drive

It is fairly easy. Most Linux distributions auto mount usb drives. However, if you are like me, you may have a Linux system that has just the barebones for the purpose you have in mind. For example, I have a LAMP (Linux Apache MySQL PHP) server as a photo webserver. When [...]

SVN: subversion on Solaris

I was setting up my subversion server on a Linux Ubuntu machine today. Not a simple task. However, setting up a Solaris subversion is not necessarily a simple one either. Solaris binaries can be found in one of two places:

Sun Freeware - for Solaris 9.
Open Collab Net - Available for Solaris 10.

For [...]

Solaris: Unix: Gathering System Information

Processor Type:
/usr/sbin/psrinfo -v
Enable / Disable Processors:
/usr/sbin/psradm -n processor_id
/usr/sbin/psradm -f processor_id
RAM:
/usr/sbin/prtconf | grep Memory

Disk:
df -lk
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Ubuntu: Getting Apache And SubVersion Module Working Together

I tried the simple stuff:
apt-get install subversion
It got me somewhere, but I wasn’t able to find the module for apache2. Maybe it is hidden somewhere within the Ubuntu installation. Who knows. I also tried the procedure described on the Ubuntu Forum to no avail. It requires
So I decided to go the [...]

Ubuntu / UNIX: Normal Compiling Procedure

The basic drill of source compiling. With so many versions of Unix, it is difficult for programmers to provide a pre-compiled package for each variant. Fortunately, most of the Unix utilities are open source, and most are free. The source files come in a pretty standard package with a format like this: [...]