I recently reformatted my system for the first time since I originally
installed Ubuntu 11.04 on it, and I want to document some of the "gotchas"
I encountered. I unnecessarily lost a few hours to trial-and-error, and I hope
to spare you the same frustration.
For this rebuild, I personally installed Lubuntu (with an "L") 12.04,
because I hate Unity, and because gnome-panel shares too many of Unity's
constraints (like only supporting four workspaces) to be useful. With that
said, I'd imagine that the following advice applies to some of the other
*buntus as well.
This was the process I used to install Lubuntu 12.04 on a clean system:
Recently, some of my company's WordPress sites have become so popular that I
chose to migrate them onto a multiple-webserver deployment system in order to
keep up with the traffic. I encountered some interesting challenges while
setting this up, so I figured I'd document them here.
While designing a new deployment system for my company with Amazon's AWS, I
stumbled onto a problem that cost me some time - I could not get my EC2
instances to connect to our Amazon RDS database servers. I figured I'd
document the solution here for the sake of those to follow.
I had created two webservers, and a MultiAZ instance of an RDS server with
which they were to transact. I could connect to each webserver and the RDS
server directly, but I could not get the webservers to connect to the RDS. The
issue ultimately ended up being related to my security groups configuration.
Earlier this week, my trusty Toshiba Satellite died after five years of
faithful service. I decided to go with the new Samsung Series 9 Laptop as
its successor, with the intention of configuring the system to dual-boot into
Ubuntu and Windows 7. I encountered a few brutal gotchas during the
installation process, so I figured I'd document them here. (To the best of my
Googling, there's not a lot of information out there on the net as of today.)
What follows is what I believe to be the shortest path to a clean installation.
It is not the path that I took. Therefore, if you find that anything
does not work as described, please let me know.