Upgrading older releases of Ubuntu when support ends

June 30, 2009 Posted by

Many times I’ve seen a VPS running such old versions of Ubuntu that they can no longer use apt at all because its no longer a supported release. For the most part at this stage, i fully recommend doing a reinstall of the machine which is the much easier faster solution. If for whatever reason […]

Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 Update (RC2)

June 28, 2009 Posted by

——————————————- The Debian Project http://www.debian.org/ Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 updated press@debian.org June 27th, 2009 http://www.debian.org/News/2009/20090627 ————————————————————————- Debian GNU/Linux […]

Linux Backups for Servers and Desktops

June 18, 2009 Posted by

Everyone wants to back up right? Well you will once you have totally lost the last years worth of work on a website and somebody breaks things severely! Heres a quick and nasty backup HOWTO. Database Dumps mysqldump -u root -p mydatabase > mydatabase.sql This dumps a database into a file, you can modify this […]