IT 566 Conquered

I must say that this has been one of the most enjoyable classes I have taken. I feel like a full fledged nerd now. For my final project I made a kid friendly laptop. I took 10+ year old laptop and made it kid friendly and functional. I had gotten to the point that it was worthless but after reading several sources about Xubuntu I decided a new OS may give it new life.

It did. Now I have a very well working laptop for my kids. I made it as kid friendly as possible complete with big Icons and a full suite of Educational Software from the Ubuntu Software Center.

Here is a screenshot.

The kids love it.

Word Press. Looks like fun.

I have installed word press.  Here is how.
1 Download the tar package here - http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz
2 Open the folder with your download and open your var/www folder (to get there press alt+f2 and type in gsku nautilus /var/www). Drag the package in your var/www folder, right click and tell it to extract here.
3 Right click the extracted Wordpress folder and choose properties.  Choose the permissions tab and ensure the owner can create and delete files.

4 log into phpmyadmin and create a database called wordpress. Make sure your php user (who you log in as) has all permissions in the new database.
5 go to localhost/wordpress and follow the instructions for configuring your database.  Remember that
 when you set up the wordpress config that your username and your password in the first form is that for your phpmyadmin.
6 On the next page, fill out the information form and create a wordpress Site Name, Username and Password. This will not effect where your site is located.  It will just be the name at the top of your site.  Access it by typing  your web address or your ip address or localhostduring/wordpress.  Log in using the Username and Password you set up during the config.

http://uhohit566.zapto.org/wordpress/ (This link will only work when my server is on but it looks like this.)

Samba installed.

I got Samba installed with only a couple of snags. The main one was that when I tried to open the configure application I got a warning that some of the lines were unreadable. Further when I tried to share the folder an error about "child process" came up.  I did not know the two were related so after poking around a little and uninstalling and reinstalling using the software center and the Terminal, I decided to see what synaptic said.  It showed an upgrade was available for one of the Samba files.  After this upgrade everything worked.  Here is a screenshot from my xp machine. Its like magic.  Pretty cool.

Drupal

Drupal install was very similar to Moodle.  I had to do it twice because of the "apply to all files" button in the Ubuntu GUI when changing file permissions.  This meant I had to delete the database and such.  It went well though.  Here is my site. http://uhohit566.zapto.org/sweetdrupal   I am very excited about the potential of drupal.  I would like to make a forum so if there are any challenges undecided, that might be a nice one.

Boxee

I got boxee Working.  On Ubuntu I had to add a repository.  Install after that was simple and straight forward.  Windows install was easy.  I was hoping Boxee would let me use my netflix on my Ubuntu machine but alas, no luck. All in all it is pretty cool.  I have only begun to explore it.

Moodle Server!

Here is a link to my Moodle Server.  Don't ask how I did it because I am not sure.  (Really you can ask me, I might be able to help. I would love to if I can. Be specific with your questions)
http://uhohit566.zapto.org/moodle/

Making a Lamp

I set up my lamp a while ago but am just now getting around to tweeting it.  It was a little tricky but not to bad. I followed the instructions found here. http://tuxtweaks.com/2010/04/installing-lamp-on-ubuntu-10-04-lucid-lynx/ If it fails during the phpmyadmin test stage, here is a fix. http://tuxtweaks.com/2010/04/installing-lamp-on-ubuntu-10-04-lucid-lynx/comment-page-1/  Take note that apache is NOT automatically selected during phpmyadmin setup.  You MUST hit the spacebar to select it. Here are my screenshots.