Rabu, 17 Februari 2010

How to Install VNC or TightVNC Server on Ubuntu?

VNC Server was required if you need to remote your GUI of Ubuntu. But since VNC performance very bad then we will use TightVNC which has better performance. TightVNC already available on Ubuntu default repository, so we can install it by executing:
#apt-get install tightvncserver

Rabu, 10 Februari 2010

VirtualBox Web Console: Installation Guide

After you finish a successful installation of VirtualBox then you may not like to use graphical UI to operate VirtualBox, so do I, because its consumes too much memory and cpu resources. We need a simple tools but more user-friendly then a text command. Fortunately, VirtualBox has a web based UI,called as: VirtualBox Web Console.

Now, lets start to install it:

Virtualbox 3 on Ubuntu 9.10: Installation Procedure

Virtualbox maybe is the best virtualization because VirtualBox:
  1. Support Linux,Windows, Mac, and OpenSolaris OS as host. While most virtualization can host only on one OS
  2. Support almost all OS as guest, such as: Windows (NT 4.0, 2000, XP, Server 2003, Vista, Windows 7), DOS/Windows 3.x, Linux (2.4 and 2.6), Solaris and OpenSolaris, and OpenBSD
  3. Very simple to install and use
  4. Provides graphical UI for easy use and also web based console named  "vboxweb" (http://code.google.com/p/vboxweb/)
  5. Very fast. VirtualBox performance very good
  6. Support file sharing by default, no need to install samba or other file sharing between two OS
  7. Has commercial support. When you need a proven professional support then just contact the well known IT company, SUN as the owner of VirtualBox (http://www.virtualbox.org)
This installation procedure has proven, tested and running well. Just follow the steps to make you successful too. Your environment maybe different but general speaking this procedure works for you.

Drupal 7.0-alpha1: Installation Procedure

Drupal 7.0 brings many advanced features, especially CCK and Views in Drupal core! This tutorial cover step by step to install Drupal 7.0-alpha on a local machine. Let's start:
  1. Assume you use XAMPP as your local hosting application
  2. Extract drupal-7.0-alpha1.tar to c:\xampp\htdocs
  3. Rename drupal-7.0-alpha1 to drupal7
  4. Now, execute the Drupal installation: http://localhost/drupal7 
  5. You will see Drupal setup page as shown below: