Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 14, 2011

The problem is that the major Linux distributions (Ubuntu, Debian, RedHat) don’t yet have MariaDB in their repositories, so it will be a while before MariaDB is an easy apt-get or yum away from installation (there are some independent repositories and builds.). MariaDB is a true drop in replacement of MySQL!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 11, 2010

I’m actually quite happy – I can run both Windows 7 and Ubuntu Linux on my laptop, and I like Android (and my Droid 2 phone) a lot. There are some tools that our team uses that I need to use that have no Macintosh version or alternative – and collaboration with our team using MS Office tools has become so much smoother.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 6, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Giving up, a little August 6, 2007 As you might know, I migrated from using a MacBook Pro laptop as my primary desktop, to eating my own dogfood, as it were, and using Ubuntu Linux as my primary desktop.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 24, 2008

And, of course, there are some other situations where Linux also shines: kiosks, internet cafes, computer labs and email/web workstations. I think it can also work for the folks who perhaps use laptops as their primary machines, and don’t do anything except email and web. I use Ubuntu on a dual-boot (XP) machine.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

And Microsoft’s exporting its new Edge web browser to Linux. The best-known include such distros as Debian , openSUSE , and Ubuntu. Set up your PC for an alternative bootup. After your PC is set to boot from an alternative drive, insert your DVD or USB drive, reboot, and select “Start Linux Mint” from the first menu.

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Towards Data Science

MAY 2, 2023

In the post mentioned earlier, I described step-by-step how to create the needed components MANUALLY through the AWS web interface. The first step is configuring a new AWS IAM user for Terraform, this will be the only step executed in the AWS web console. The result? You’ll need a machine with Docker and an AWS account.

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Towards Data Science

DECEMBER 23, 2023

It’s a typical scenario in real-world applications, like a web app communicating with a database. This setup lets me run a Linux environment, specifically Ubuntu, on my Windows PC. You can access the MinIO web interface at [link]. To access its web interface, navigate to the ‘Containers’ tab in the Docker Desktop application.

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