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This is a step by step how-to to get wp-supercache enabled. This is my source: http://www.lavluda.com/2007/07/15/how-to-enable-mod_rewrite-in-apache22-debian/ First you need to get apache1.3 of higher installed. I have apache2. Type this command in Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install apache2 Now that you have apache2 put this command in the terminal: updatedb locate mod_rewrite.so This will update the…

Built into the repositories the new VLC 0.9.4 is out and if you have VLC in Intrepid already and you are up to date then you already have it. For other distros I do not know if you have been updated. If you have been updated and are on another distribution other then Ubuntu Intrepid…

Hello Everyone! I saw the polls results since putting it up yesterday at 9:00 AM PDT and I have decided to write an application review of Pidgin 2.5.1. I am not reviewing it because of the poll stats with GNOME leading with 4 votes at the time of writing this, but because I really love…

Ok, So when I looked at the epoll stats people want me to write more about applications that I have used in Linux and not so much about distributions that I have used. So I am putting out another epoll today about which of the following Desktop Environments should I have the applications from: KDE…

Yes there is less then a week left until the 8.10 Release Candidate comes out. Yesterday the Main was frozen and will probably not become unfrozen until the release is out. I am still using Ubuntu 8.10 Beta and have now had a few problems with packages: The Network-Manager will sometimes not display wireless access…

I just read in the Ubuntu Mailing List that the release freeze is immenient which is going to happen tomorrow. This post on the mailing list is from Yesterday. With the release of Ubuntu 8.10 less than 2 1/2 weeks away, it will shortly be time to freeze the archive to limit the number of…

Somehow on my server the apache2 ports.conf had changed and was missing the # before listen 443. Now that it is fixed enjoy reading again. As I have said before sorry about the outage. I also restarted the server so it has been up for more then 10 hours now. Ryan Orser

We at http://ryanorser.com/ http://superspeedycomputerrepairs.net/ http://ryanorser.com/Hockey regret the site outage that occured around 9:00 AM October 12th until October 13th at 1:20 PM. There will be a post coming out later. Ryan Orser.

The new Flock 2 beta is out and is ready to get the social networking started. In Flock 2 Beta three I have not seen many updates or anything else. The GUI still looks great and I have reason to believe that it will be faster in the end of development then FireFox 3. I…

In Ubuntu Intrepid, if you install vlc media player you will get the new and improved VLC 0.9.3. I have not used VLC Media Player since version 0.9.2d and I do like it. The new interface looks great and works nicely. It was easy to install in Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install vlc Looks like I…