Sometimes a blog with thoughts and opinions by Dan Greene
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 wouldn’t want to meet one in a dark alley … errr… ocean.…
Added March 7, 2026: It was not a good night. My house survived intact, but I remember sitting in my hallway and thinking that all the windows in the house were going to break.
From WBIR April 27, 2021 – Ten years ago: Deadly tornado outbreak on April 27, 2011
According to National Weather Service a tornado was about 6 miles from me Wednesday night here in South Knoxville.…
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 browser and follow the instructions.…
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.…
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.…
Drush was (at least from my experience in 2011) 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 to the new theme via Appearance in the Drupal admin.…
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
Drush is a command line shell for quickly configuring Drupal.…
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.…
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 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.…