My IT 566 class is over. I got an A in case anyone is curious. I haven’t decided if I’m going to take any more classes or not. There don’t seem to be any online classes this summer or fall. The two classes I’ve taken in the Instructional Technology program so far have been interesting … Read more
This one wasn’t specifically a challenge for IT 566 but I upgraded by Ubuntu machine to 11.04, Natty Narwhal. I’m not exactly sure what a natty narwhal looks like, but I’m pretty sure I would want to meet one in a dark alley … errr… ocean. 11.04 replaces Gnome with Unity. The interface is quite … Read more
Installing MediaWiki for IT 566 was pretty much the same as for WordPress. Download the tar file into your web root, create a MySQL database and user then go to you MediaWiki directory via a web brower and follow the instructions. The site is at http://librarymonk.zapto.org/mediawiki/. A screenshot is below.
One of the IT 566 challenges was do install WordPress. WordPress has a very simple installation procedure. I created a MySQL user and database using phpMyadmin. After extracting the downloaded WordPress tar file to my web root and edited wp-config and I was ready to go. The site is at http://librarymonk.zapto.org/wordpress/. A screenshot is below.
One of the challenges for IT 566 is to get Chrome OS. The pilot program for the CR-48 notebook closed sometime in March. Hardware running Chrome OS won’t be commercially available until June or July. So running Chrome OS on native hardware isn’t an option. Chromium OS is the open source variant of Chrome OS. … Read more
Drush is (at least from my experience) not that well documented. The commands seem to change slightly with every version I did figure out how to download themes with drush. sudo drush dl sky downloaded the sky theme But I couldn’t figure out how to switch to that theme using drush so I just switched … Read more
Next in IT 566 land was installing Drupal and Drush. I installed Drupal with a few lines in the terminal: cd /var/www sudo wget http://ftp.drupal.org/files/projects/drupal-7.0.tar.gz sudo tar xvf drupal-7.0.tar.gz sudo mv drupal-7.0/ drupal Then I made a Drupal database and user with phpmyadmin and ran the drupal installer by going to localhost/drupal The result is … Read more
After a bit of a break, next up for IT 566 was installing Samba. I installed and configured Samba between Ubuntu 10.10 and Windows XP using these directions. http://www.liberiangeek.net/2010/11/enable-file-sharing-windows-xp-ubuntu-10-10-maverick-meerkat/ Here’s a screenshot from the Ubuntu side of things. Samba on the Windows side. I also mapped the share to a drive letter (U) on the … Read more
Last month I was lucky enough to get a computer for free to use as my server for IT 566. It works great and I found that I wasn’t using my old HP laptop at all. So this weekend I decided to switch things around. I installed Ubuntu 10.10 on the laptop, an HP Pavilion … Read more
I installed a LAMP stack a few weeks ago with Taskel. Next up for IT 566 is installing phpMyAdmin. The install is pretty simple, just run “sudo apt-get install phpmyadmin” from a terminal window. Here’s screenshot of phpMyAdmin installed.
