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UAE lug meetup group featured on homepage

Looks good to see our Linux user group being featured on meetup website homepage. Way to go guys and thanks to all the member who took so much effort to make this group an active one. They must have liked Alexander picture very much LOL !!!

Ubuntu 9.04 remote desktop using vncserver without monitor

Only few more days for Ubuntu team to release 9.04 but I couldn’t wait so I downloaded RC version and installed on torrent download server . The task is to install the ubuntu 9.04 RC and to completely manage the server remotely. The installation was completely smooth and there was no issues. The installation completely [...]

Compile and install PHP 5.2.8 on Mac OS X 10.5.6 (Leopard)

Due to some limitation I faced with Xampp I finally decided to compile PHP5 native on my mac. Entropy was a best option for mac till Leopard was released. Since Leopard came with php built in entropy was no more available. After Googling for a long time and breaking my head with errors for 7 [...]

Fedora 9 Sulphur on VMware Fusion

I have been always a very big fan on Fedora Linux distribution. In recent times I have moved very much into Ubuntu. Three days back Fedora team had released the new version 9 named sulphur. I really wanted to test it how well it is working with VMware. So the hunt began. Downloaded the i686 [...]

BSD, SSH and PHP on my iPhone

Tonight I installed BSD system on my iPhone. Once that is complete I installed openSSH, Term-vt100. I opened terminal and changed my root password using the command passwd. I found the ip of the iPhone using the command ifconfig. Latter I was able to connect to the iPhone using ssh from my laptop . I [...]

Fedora Core 8 on Lenovo 3000

We got a brand new IBM Lenovo laptop without any operating system installed. These days most of the new laptops comes with Windows Vista installed and which sucks majorly. Then we decided we will install Linux on the laptop for a difference. Then I installed Ubuntu 7.10 on it and it worked perfect. The live [...]