Day: March 2, 2012

Top 10 Ubuntu app downloads for January 2012

  commercial apps 1. TRAUMA   TRAUMA is a game that tells a story of a young woman who survives a car accident. Recovering at the hospital, she has dreams that shed light on different aspects of her identity – such as the way she deals with the loss of her parents. TRAUMA lets you […]

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Fuser Using 100% CPU in Ubuntu 11.10

  After upgrading to 11.10 recently, I occasionally noticed fuser firing up and using between 70% and astoundingly 9999% CPU. Googling the issue led me to this post with the solution. As user grazer explains: We have the same problem. This is the content of /etc/cron.d/php5 on 11.10: 09,39 * * * * root [ […]

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How to Install and Setup Apache in Ubuntu

Installing Apache Getting apache onto your Ubuntu machine is easy. Using either the Synaptic Package Manager, Ubuntu Software Center, search and install the “apache2” module. Alternatively, you can open a terminal and type the following command: sudo apt-get install apache2 Once the installation finished, open a browser and go to the URL “http://localhost“. If you […]

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How to install festival for Linux/Ubuntu

Installation Install Festival by typing the following command in a Terminal: [cc lang=”php” tab_size=”2″ lines=”40″] sudo apt-get install festival [/cc] Note: Additional voices are available in the Ubuntu repositories. Type “festvox” in Synaptic Package Manager for a list of language packages. Testing Test your setup by typing in a Terminal [cc lang=”php” tab_size=”2″ lines=”40″] festival [/cc] You will […]

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How to install Maxmind’s GeoIP on Ubuntu/Linux for PHP

provides a useful database and API for server side IP Geolocation. It is useful when you don’t want your server to hang on external services each time fetching a location from an IP address is needed. This posts goes through the installation process of the database with a PHP extension on an Ubuntu platform. I’m […]

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