Tutorial: Setup Your Own (Self-Hosted) Simple Web Server for Free

This is my attempt at guiding new webmasters (like myself) through the setup process of setting up a simple web server for friends and family (and possibly, with a little bit of creativity on your side, a full-blown web host like those you usually pay for). I will provide commands to execute in the [...]

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The Hildreth Server

So, I just setup my laptop to run my own little HTTP server (called the Hildreth Server) so that friends and family can have access to ALL of my pictures in their full resolution glory. If you didn’t catch it before, it’s hosted on a laptop, so downtime will surely be there. It’s [...]

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How To: Save a Few Seconds on Startup Time in Fedora 8

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Fix-It: F-Spot Troubles – “object reference not set to an instance of an object”

Here’s the problem: you’ve used F-spot before to keep track of all your photos and for some reason (distro upgrade or re-importing) you needed to import those photos again into F-Spot. It should be easy, but unfortunately, you were met with a nasty “object reference not set to an instance of an object” [...]

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How To: Install VirtualBox on Fedora 8 (Werewolf)

This is a tutorial on how to get VirtualBox up and running on Fedora 8. If you havn’t yet, add yourself as a “sudoer” by visiting the tutorial this page. Also, this tutorial is for the 32-Bit version of VirtualBox, so you’ll have to customize a little more to get the 64-bit version running (as [...]

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Guides to Help with Fedora 8 Install

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Feelin’ Stoked About Fedora 8…

A gem of innovative and cutting-edge technology has been found emerging from the settling dust storm that was Ubuntu 7.10 called Fedora 8 “Werewolf”. It’s due to be released on November 8th and there is a plethora of very exciting things about it that may convince users (including myself) to make a switch. [...]

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