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Every time I go to set up VirtualBox and several VMs I always forget how I setup the networking for them. Once again, I went through the pain of trying to figure it all out, so I might as well document it for future use. The Problem When creating virtual machines, especially virtual linux servers, …

A Little Background It was the summer of 2008 when I attended the LT Pact conference that I first drank the “Cloud Kool-Aid.” As you can see from my notes, I was pretty excited about this whole concept. Excited enough, one client of mine signed up for Layered Tech’s grid layer (which is what they …

These last few days I’ve been trying to get XAMPP to work on my MacBook Pro these last couple of days and it has been frustrating! It seemed I kept running into more and more problems. For those who don’t know, XAMPP is tool for developers to run a LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) …

I just left the last session of the LT Pact ’08 conference and it has been fun. I’ve learned a lot and there were a lot of common themes among the conference. I’ll briefly touch on the themes and over the next week or so I’ll be writing more in-depth on each one. Besides, I …

Whew, today was a good day. I took a lot of notes and over the next few days I’ll be blogging on the different topics. Hopefully you’ll enjoy.

I deal with many different servers and it is hard to keep track of which is running which Distro of linux. Here is the quick way to tell: uname -a uname –help You can’t believe how hard it was to find that out.

Well, I’m doing my laundry and getting ready to leave tomorrow for LTPact 2008. I’m looking forward to hearing about new technologies in server hosting. They also have coming several speakers on blogging, including Matt Mullengweg, founder and creator of WordPress. Layered Technologies has been a fantastic sponsor for CEVO.