Ubuntu installation on nvidia computer

My harddrive died recently and so I reinstalled ubuntu. I got fed up with new release breaking tiny things often. So I tried to stick with LTS this time (10.04 when I wrote this). I have an NVidia  graphic card and dual monitor. I recalled troubles already from my previous experience of installing Ubuntu. I…

Installing WordPress on Ubuntu

This guide is great. But one has to install and setup apache and mysql first (if haven’t). I follow this guide and add this line before the earlier guide and then it works perfectly. sudo apt-get install apache2 php5 mysql-server phpmyadmin But be sure to restart apache after installation. sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

Transferring Ubuntu to New Harddrive

My old harddrive had 60 G for my Ubuntu partition and the free space left was less than 2 G (and it is going fast). I figured it was time for me to find a bigger home for my Linux partition. I followed the Backup and Restore post but it missed out a couple simple…