Recently my laptop won’t detect any operating system installed and I was so bothered because a very important project was installed on that operating system.  This may seem to be a common post out there but I want to share this experience and also to refer to it someday when the same problem occurs. Scenario: I have an old laptop which is dual booted with windows 7 ultimate 64bit with ubuntu 10.04.* amd64.  My mostly used OS is Ubuntu and I only

After using Apache Webserver for 4 years I had no doubt of its simplicity and performance.  Reading several articles about the comparison of apache and nginx [engine x], I came to a point of using nginx.  Last night I kinda ditched apache and had a long time with nginx.  I have now an nginx webserver with mysql and php or other call it “LEMP”.  I found several tutorials of how to install nginx with php and mysql and found a

On my ubuntu (10.04 LTS) powered laptop, I am using firestarter as a GUI for my firewall. It is very easy to use and very easy to configure. Though its synonymous to the default firewall installed with later versions of ubuntu which is the “GUFW (Firewall Configuration)” which allows the user to configure ufw firewall and is already integrated with gnome. Since firestarter is not integrated with gnome and it has been a repetitive task for me that every time

I am a loyal user of Thunderbird and ubuntu 10.04 is by default using evolution for its mail client. So what I did was uninstalled all the packages related to evolution using synaptic manager. I did a complete removal of the packages and restarted my laptop. After uninstalling I was no longer able to login with my account even if I correctly entered my credentials. I used ubuntu recovery option on grub menu and went to the console, I checked

If adjusting your laptop’s brightness through your keyboard or power management seems impossible, you can can still change it through the terminal. Below is the command to use: sudo setpci -s 00:02.0 F4.B=XX Where XX is a hexadecimal value from 00-FF, 00 as the brightest and FF as the darkest. I am using 6F for my laptop. I hope this helped you! Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it

image from www.memcached.org Based on their official website memcached is defined as: Free & open source, high-performance, distributed memory object caching system, generic in nature, but intended for use in speeding up dynamic web applications by alleviating database load. Memcached is an in-memory key-value store for small chunks of arbitrary data (strings, objects) from results of database calls, API calls, or page rendering. Memcached is simple yet powerful. Its simple design promotes quick deployment, ease of development, and solves many

One of the server I am using is running ubuntu. I am installing memcached on the server and every time I restart the web server I always have the error “Could not reliably determine the server’s fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.1.1 for ServerName”. If you are having the same error then this post is for you. To solve the problem this is how I solved the problem. Open the cli and use the command to edit apache’s config file: