Archive for January, 2011

Sunday, January 30th, 2011

Upon the Subject of Dynamic DNS

In order to give people an easier way to get to the web server I set up was time to give it a hostname. For that you need a DNS service. I’ve had an account with no-ip since the last time I ran my own server in 2003. This blog started on an iMac in [...]

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Sunday, January 30th, 2011

Upon the Subject of Web Servers

Now that I had the computer and the network taken care of, it was time to turn the setup into a web server. Here we get into territory that’s pretty close to my job. So to make things more interesting for me and to help others in the IT 566 class I decided to look [...]

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Sunday, January 30th, 2011

Upon the Subject of Networking

I had one problem with my new Dell Ubuntu machine. The place I had to put to was nowhere near my router and cable modem. The cable modem and router are pretty firmly entrenched near my TV. I really didn’t want to touch the cable modem. Several months ago I had a long running saga [...]

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Sunday, January 30th, 2011

Upon the Subject of Ubuntu

Next up in IT 566 assignments is installing Ubuntu. I only had blank DVDs so I went the alternate download route and downloaded the DVD iso for version 10.10. I put the DVD in the Dell machine and let the installer do its thing. Other than picking the language, install partition, and a few other [...]

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