Posted January 2nd, 2010 by Gerry
If you are a regular follower of my blog you know that I recently changed the theme of the Wordpress blog. Although changing the theme itself is rather straightforward within the Wordpress admin system, I wanted to customize a free theme and didn’t want to risk taking down my production theme while I was doing it. By installing a copy of Wordpress on a local server I was able to make changes and test them in a non production environment before putting everything into production.
Since I setup LAMP and Webmin on my system when creating the Ushare server most of the infrastructure was already in place including the Apache Web Server, MySQL database, and PHP with the module for PHP. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted October 23rd, 2009 by Gerry
As I stated in my last post, I am trying to use the Ubuntu OS more on my dual boot system, but I am not accustomed to a lot of the programs so usually end up reverting back to Windows when I can’t find something comparable. As I am writing blogs in Ubuntu, I am really missing LiveWriter for the features and easy publishing. In searching google for an alternative, it seems that I am not alone. After installing WINE to see if I could use Windows LiveWriter with that, I discovered that it is not an option due to the framework. I am not crazy about running a virtual box, which is one of the solutions I found. If I need to run Windows, it is probably easier to just reboot in Vista and run it from there. Read the rest of this entry »
