I’ve been doing a lot of testing a Wordpress template for a friend, so Xampp has come in very useful.
There’s one problem, though. The Xampp Control panel won’t start on its own.
The solution, with thanks, is at Human Language Weblog:
If Apache2 or MySQL is already running, then XAMPP will not start. You must stop [...]
Having just got my Samsung Multifunction running under Ubuntu 8.10, I thought I’d leave 9.04 for a
while, but then I made the mistake of reading Tombuntu’s Ubuntu 9.04 Released. When I started using Ubuntu a few years ago, I had a hard time getting started and I suppose blamed the downloaded .iso. As a [...]
I managed to get my Samsung SCX-4200 MFP running…. (see previous post)
The key was to gksudo nautilus to change permissions (press Alt-F2 and type gksudo nautilus), so I could uninstall the Samsung driver.
Then I re-installed it over splix2 (see here)
The scanner was now producing root-free scans, but the printer didn’t work. At least the [...]
I thought I had it sussed. (see SCX-4200 Unified Linux Driver in Hardy Heron: Success at last)
It was going fine under Hardy, but then I did a clean install back in the winter and didn’t bother reinstalling the printer as I was sick for quite a while and then had a loan of a windows [...]
I do very little website design these days. I only ever did it for myself and some friends, and we are mostly catered for now. However I’ve moved most of us to a wordpress cms, and finetuning can be a pain if you have to ftp every change. Enter Xampp and Wordpress.
I had installed xampp [...]
Back in May 2007 I wrote this
After four months on Ubuntu (Edgy Eft) I surprised myself the other
day by realising how few programs I’ve actually changed from Windows Xp.
Of course I used a lot of open source on windows anyway, and there
have been a few programs I haven’t been able to replace on a practical [...]