Playing with alot of distros lately. Installed Bodhi 2.1.0 Linux on my sisters old PC with 256MB memory…runs slow. Installed Bodhi, Vector Linux 7.0, Linux Mint 14 on VM. Install Kubuntu on HD…pretty nice uses the KDE desktop, but not enough to make me give up my current everyday distro…Linux Mint 13 LTS. One interesting …
Category Archives: Computer
Local church website
Backup Local church website on my site and restore on their server. Even though the test site on my server was in a subdirectory, the execellent Akeeba backup software, allowed me to restore on their root directory, and get them up fairly quickly. Site has rotating images on the home page, menus with drop down …
Linux Mint 13 LTS
Install Linux Mint Cinnamon 13 (based on Gnome 3) on home PC even though I just installed Linux Mint Mate 13 (based on Gnome 2). Linux Mint 13 is a LTS version that is supported for 5 years. Among other things I like Cinnamons Virtual desktop. Mint 13 uses Linux Kernal 3.2. Finally installed Nvidea …
Install Linux Mint 12
Install Linux Mint 12 on home PC because Ubuntu 10.10 no longer supported. A distribution based on ubuntu. 3D now finally working “out-of-the-box”, can run Google earth, Supertuxkart etc. Mint 12 uses Linux Kernal 3.0.
Update WebTrees
Update my genealogy software WebTrees from version 1.0.6 to 1.2.7
VirtualBox
Set up shared folders between VirtualBox and Ubuntu. Really useful/productive. I occasionally do some MS-Access programming for a local company. Before I would boot into Windows (Dual boot) to use MS-Access then shutdown and reboot Linux. Use my email to transfer MS-Access program and communicate with client. Repeat above procedure. until project complete. Now I …
Virtualbox clone
Increase Win 2000 size using the Virtualbox clone feature going from 10GB to 20GB, then using GParted to let Win 2000 “see” the extra space. Installed but could’nt get Oblivion to work. After researching it seems this is a problem with 3D graphics. Perhaps older games may work.
VirtualBox
Install Oracle’s VM VirtualBox on my Ubuntu Linux – I’m a little late to this topic on the PC. Why? I don’t know. It’s even more puzzling considering I was a IBM Systems Programmer and one of my responsibilities was administering the VM OS on the mainframe, before the this was ever available on the …
System information
Added link to “About” menu to display system information. Why? Because as a former Systems administrator I am curious about such things. I tried phpSysInfo 1st, but it didn’t work for me. Possibly needed PHP configuration changes, which I can’t do (not my server). Next tried Linfo which worked as provided, and gave me the …
WebTrees
Switched Web genealogy software from phpGedView to WebTrees which was derived from phpGedView. I had just updated phpGedView recently to v4.2.3. but the effort wasn’t wasted because that version was required to migrate to WebTrees (using their wizard). Many of the same developer’s of phpGedView are now working on WebTrees. It sounds that they cleaned …