Introduction
In Windows, you use this format to access a directory
D:\Folder\subfolder\file.txt
In Linux, this is the basic format
/Folder/subfolder/file.txt
You’ll notice that the slashes are forward slashes in Linux versus backslashes in Windows. Also, there is no drive name (C:, D:, etc.) in Linux. At boot, the ‘root partition’ is mounted at /. All files, folders, devices and drives […]

Step 1 > Apache2
$sudo apt-get install apache2
Step 2 > MySQL 5
$sudo apt-get install mysql-server libmysqlclient15-dev
Step 3 > PHP5
$sudo apt-get install php5 php5-common libapache2-mod-php5 php5-gd php5-dev curl libcurl3 libcurl3-dev php5-curl
Step 4 > PHPMyAdmin
$sudo aptitude install phpmyadmin
Step 5 > SSL certificate for Apache2
$sudo apache2-ssl-certificate
If you get back that it can’t find apache2-ssl-certificate .. then not to worry, […]

Your ethernet configuration is located in a file called /etc/network/interfaces. If you reboot system you will lost your alias. To make it permanent you need to add it network configuration file:
gksudo gedit /etc/network/interfaces
OR
sudo vi /etc/network/interfaces
Append the following configuration:
auto eth0:0
iface eth0:0 inet static
name Ethernet alias LAN card
address 192.168.1.11
netmask 255.255.255.0
broadcast 192.168.1.255
network 192.168.1.0
Save the file and restart system […]

The default LAMP installation on Ubuntu 6.10 doesn’t include mod_rewrite module.
To install mod_rewrite, run command as below:
$sudo a2enmod rewrite
ref : http://www.yinfor.com/blog/archives/2007/04/how_to_install_a_mod_rewrite_o.html

Ubuntu is one of the few Linux distribution out there that will not enable the root account.If you want to do something with root permission on the console you have to type sudo before the command.

sudo” means superuser do. “sudo” will prompt for “Password:”. Please specify user password
As you have noticed during the Ubuntu installation […]

The VMware Server Web-based management interface. Install on your VMware Server system to enable control from a web browser. Includes downloadable VMware Server Console installation files.
Download: 
wget -c http://download3.vmware.com/software/vmserver/VMware-mui-1.0.4-56528.tar.gz
Untar:
tar -xvzf VMware-mui-1.0.4-56528.tar.gz
Change into the install directory:
cd vmware-mui-distrib
Fix:
sudo ln -s -f /bin/bash /bin/sh 
Run the installer:
sudo ./vmware-install.pl
To access go to https://localhost:8333/
sudo /etc/init.d/httpd.vmware start
sudo /etc/init.d/httpd.vmware restart
sudo /etc/init.d/httpd.vmware status
The VMware MUI […]

Installing vmware server from the howto’s on the net, proved not to be very useful. It went all great untill you reach the step to enter your cd key:
/usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-vmx: error while loading shared libraries: libX11.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory The serial number XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX is invalid
I removed the serial […]