Linux, Hockey and Late Nights

So I’m sitting here waiting for the COL – VAN game to start on the inDemand HD channel, and I decided to start messing around with Linux again in the VirtualBox application.  I have Ubuntu 8.04 (yes, I know it’s an older distro) installed, and...

PHP: PEAR Library and Plesk

I was having an issue with setting up PEAR Library with PHP on my Linux box that runs Plesk, so after some research and a little help from the support team at HostMySite.com I came up with the following. To run PEAR you obviously have to have it installed, so once you...

Ubuntu on the VM

I fired up the VM server again this evening and got Ubuntu running again.  I really like it, but being restricted to the software that I use on Windows but can’t run on Linux.  I came across a post on LifeHacker Blog about running Windows apps in Linux using...