Posts Tagged ‘Linux’

ARGH! My emails!

I’m in the middle of a worrying situation.
After carefully copying all of the relevant emails over to the IMAP server on the Linux machine, I seem to have misconfigured something and had to reset the server and the services.
When everything fired back up, all the emails had disappeared!
I’m just trying to get everything back on, [...]

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Win2Lin Day 1

I had Steve around my place today to help me set up the Linux box and ensure that the platform material is working correctly.
The major tasks today involved configuring Apache with PHP 5 and mySQL.
Thankfully, SUSE 9.3 comes with mySQL 4.1, saving a great deal of aggravation. The catch is that SUSE 9.3 seems to [...]

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Win2Lin Begins

As if Windows sniffed out my intentions, it refused to boot this morning. Only 1 day after I thought I’d give the Linux platform a proper go.
So now I’m running SUSE 9.3 which installed from the DVD a burned a few days ago fairly easy.
I’ve cheated somewhat though – I’m using a friendly KDE inteface [...]

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