VirtualBox OSE with Ubuntu 11.04 as Host

Ubuntu has given me great computing experiences, and a couple months back I have decided to totally remove other OS from my machine and leave Linux Ubuntu 11.04 alone. But, as my nature to help a lot of my Windows users, espeacilly user whose machine has been affected with viruses/malware/worm.

The problem I faced is how to look at pendrive as I saw it on Windows. I googleing but did not find any good solution so I have decided to install back Windows on my machine but as Guest OS. After searching in Ubuntu Software package, I found VirtualBox OSE and install it then install Windows XP Pro SP3 on it, and work fine.

ddclient: Install and Configure to update Dynamic IP Change

STEP 1:
Download latest ddclient from sourceforge.net

$ wget http://download.sourceforge.net/ddclient/ddclient-3.8.1.tar.gz

STEP 2:
Expand the tarball

$ tar zxvf ddclient-3.8.1.tar.gz

STEP 3:
You will have ddclient-3.8.1 directory in you current directory. You have to copy ddclient to /usr/sbin directory.

$ cp ddclient /usr/sbin

STEP 4:
Create a directory for ddclient configuration file under /etc

$ mkdir /etc/ddclient

Howto: Installing LAMP on Ubuntu 10.10

LAMP server in Ubuntu
(This tutorial is based on Ubuntu Linux 10.10) 

Since seeing 'people at home' is struggling to sell shirts and "drop shipping" in the up (Facebook), moved the hearts want to help (cheewah!). So expect to setup web server in my linux pc. After finding some, found a way to make it. 

Installing LAMP on Ubuntu Linux
 
LAMP stands for Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP. The combination of these four web servers to create a stable and fast, and FREE. 

The easiest way to install LAMP server is to use tasksel command in Terminal.
 

$ Sudo tasksel 

If your state is shown to have no such instructions, you do not yet have Linux tasksel. Please install tasksel in advance using the following command;

$ sudo apt-get install tasksel
 
Okay, after tasksel install, run the command again;

Howto: Converting JPEG to PDF using Image Magick

(This tutorial is based on Linux Ubuntu 10.10)

Before we can convert JPEG (or any supported files format) to PDF, we have to install Image Magick software package. Ubuntu have several ways to install sofware packages, ie, using Ubuntu Software Center, or apt-get at Terminal.

If your system yet did not have Image Magick, please install it first. I prefer to use command-line apt-get. Here is how to install it via apt-get.

$ sudo apt-get install imagemagick

After finish the installation, use convert command to convert image files to PDF.