So easy to fix but hard to find the solution. Hope this helps all you who are stuck with this. If your Apache server doesn't start and you get an error message like this: Failed to start apache : * Starting web server apache2 Syntax error on line 63 of /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/mythweb.conf: Invalid command 'SetEnv', perhaps misspelled or defined by a module not included in the server configuration Action 'start' failed. The Apache error log may have more information. ...fail! It means you need to enable Apache module mod_env. A simple check for the module with sudo a2enmod at … [Read more...]
Install FUSE into Ubuntu the Easy Way – Use a Script
July 26, 2011 by 1 Comment
Manic Miner on Fuse Making friendly suggestions on a forum is not always a good idea: you never know where it's going to lead. When I saw a request for feature ideas for upcoming versions of FUSE, the Spectrum emulator, posted on the World of Spectrum website little did I know that one simple comment asking for FUSE to be made easier to install into Ubuntu would lead me to write an installer script. When someone on the forum wrote "hint, hint, hint: man bash. you really can contribute that bash one-liner to FUSE then. %-)" in reply to my writing "[as] much as I'd like to give FUSE more … [Read more...]
OMG! Unity is Horrible! What Do I Do?
April 18, 2011 by 6 Comments
If the search terms that have been bringing visitors to my first review of Ubuntu 11.04 are to be used as a measure of what people think of Natty then I would be understating when I say that not many Ubuntu users are happy with Ubuntu's new Unity Shell. Let me just say that a lot of people are doing a lot of cussing about Natty. Who can blame them. The taskbar is unmovable, the application menu is a mess and individual window menus are non existent. It just isn't an interface that people can... interface with. 11.04 is, well, natty. There are solutions The least obvious and easiest option … [Read more...]
Ubuntu 11.04 – What Have They Done?!
April 5, 2011 by 58 Comments
My imagination has been racing with ideas about how great Ubuntu 11.04 will be when finally released. Unable to contain my enthusiasm any longer I decided to download Ubuntu 11.04 Beta 1 and give it a whirl on my newly built AMD quad core PC. I am absolutely flabbergasted at how shit the new Natty distro is. I can see "natty" becoming a byword for "trash" and when it does "Natty by name, natty by nature." will be this distro's maxim. A long time user and proponent of Ubuntu and all things Linux and open source, I am well placed to say to anyone who intends to install Natty, "Stop! Curb your … [Read more...]
