Tag Archives: ubuntu

Using CouchDB With PHP

Posted on December 15, 2010 by Captain Thomas Mashek

One of the things that is being done with our project, Scrib, is building it to use CouchDB as the back-end database. The data we’ll be storing is more suited to a ‘document-style’ database rather than relational, like MySQL (here’s … Continue reading →

Install ScummVM From Daily Build in Ubuntu

Posted on August 29, 2010 by Captain Thomas Mashek

A friend of mine asked me how to install ScummVM from a daily build. Since I myself had not done this before, I thought I would write a little tutorial. For those who do not know (and who do not … Continue reading →

Binaries: Speed Bumps for Server Admins

Posted on December 26, 2009 by Captain Thomas Mashek

Setting up an IRC server is pretty simple as long as you make sure to read the man pages and any other information given (especially the INSTALL file). Of course, that doesn’t really work all that well when you go about things the way I did initially.

[caption id="" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Photo by Forest & Kim Starr (http://www.hear.org/starr)"]Photo by Forest & Kim Starr[/caption]I first started researching different IRC daemons to use in Ubuntu Server, and settled upon one. Finding that there was already a binary for it inside the Ubuntu repository, I decided to go that route. Quick and easy, yeah? IRC set up painlessly and after a quick configuring of the ircd.conf, I thought everything was dandy. I logged in and queried NickServ to register my nick, only to find there was no such nickname or channel. Looking this up, I realized I needed to set up some Services. I found the package I wanted to use and set about configuring it for use. I got it to set up and everything was a-okay, except for the fact that I could not get global operator working. Continue reading →