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Welcome to the state!

I certainly can't pass myself off as anything like a real systems administrator, so take this with a grain of salt. I'm a software developer, and learned the most about...

I downloaded lucid's beta-1 cd for testing out a fresh install, and all went well.

Now that I have the cd, is there a way to upgrade a machine that already has karmic up to lucid by using the CD?...

I created a small vmware image, about 4GB worth of disk. I had to copy it to a remote machine, and figured I'd rather deal with 700 Mb worth of zip instead of 4GB worth of raw vmdk.

After it's...

(1) Word to the wise, I created the 'jboss' user via the ubuntu gui widget (before I found this post) and set the default shell to '/bin/false'. Don't do that. Use the 'useradd' command above that...

Finishing up on this thread, it sure looks like ubuntu's JeOS flavor is usable by just about anybody.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2007-November/000106.html

Hoo-ray.
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I'm working on setting up a webapp deployment scheme for a client, and am really interested in virtualization for a purpose-built system.

Some variant of slimmed-down ubuntu-desktop or gui-fied...

Thanks for all the pointers.

I was using gaim, and the steps I ended up taking were:

(1) start up gaim. It pops up a 'freenode-connect' dialog that I left open.
(2) /msg Nickserv register...

So, for all us complete and utter irc minor-leaguers, how does one register a nic on freenode?

I ran across a series of commands at http://freenode.net/faq.shtml#nicksetup but how does one issue...