All good you might thing, well think again.  I know people love linux and I love parts of linux for example mythtv and all the open source stuff that is out there.  The parts that I hate about linux are the ease of getting even the basic things to work.  When I performed the dpkg install I got an error because the adobe package had a dependence on libcurl3.  Knowing I’d seen this before on my tv box I knew it was not easy to get around.  So rather than trying to hack the solution I thought I would try and find another route.

The other route eventually turned up in a great little 10 things to do after installing ubuntu.

http://linuxchronicles.wordpress.com/2009/01/24/10-things-to-do-after-installing-ubuntu-810/

I’d just googled to re-find the link and I’m worried about the number of 10 things to do after installing ubuntu… Thankfully there is another package for flash that can be done from apt-get.

sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree

So after downloading the .img file from the ubuntu website I needed a usb pen to boot the laptop into a live CD version of UNR.  Unfortunately I did not have one so I popped down to PC World of all places!! and got a sandisk 8GB usb pen for £12.99.

Once back I tried to use Unetbootin to install the distro onto the USB pen unfortunately this caused problems when trying to live book.  Everytime I ended up with a loading please wait….. and then dropping into a BusyBox prompt (what ever that is!!! I’m a geek but not a linux geek.)  I went back to the usb pen and installed UNR using the Ubuntu instructions and this seemed to sort the problem out.  After having a play with the live version I decided to setup the dual boot system.  So while I was in the live CD I used the partition manager inbuilt to reduce the size of the windows disk.

After the reboot I let windows boot first before doing the install, I thought this was probably a good idea because it would have been a nightmare if my windows XP partition was no longer working!!!  Windows went into a disk scan but worked fine after the shrinking of the disk size.

After another reboot!!!! I booted from the usb stick again and followed the install of the distro into the spare space.  It was certainly easier than the last time I did an install of linux.

So I’m now writing this post from my nice shiny new UNR install.

My apache server keeps crashing and since its in use alot there are lots of messages on the apache log but nothing useful. So I thought lets look at the system log, but which one….. (this is why I named the post) searching through some of the log files I cannot see the wood for the trees.

I’m sure there must be an easy answer to why it crashes but you would have thought on the error log of apache there would be a large shouting message about it.


IM BUST PLEASE FIX ME


After the initial annoyance of running out of space I did a quick google and found the command to use to search my disks for large files (one down side was that it picked up all the recorded tv shows!!!) but that was easy to skip past because they were obviously on a different drive.

Just incase people want to know the command:


Finds all files over 20,000KB (roughly 20MB) in size and presents their names and size in a human readable format:

find / -type f -size +20000k -exec ls -lh {} \; | awk '{ print $9 ": " $5 }'


http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/1491

That got me thinking maybe my second throught was abit harsh on linux because how would you find a large file on windows? I was going to call this post why are the small things so hard on linux. But actually doing a quick google search and running the command that finished in about 2 minutes rather than running a gui program that could take 2 hours to finish aint bad.