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How To: Change Bluetooth Device Name – Ubuntu 14.04

Posted byuserRalph on February 21st, 2015.

In this guide, I will show you how to change the Bluetooth device name from the default “ubuntu-0” to your personalized name. This was done on Ubuntu 14.04, however it should also work on older or newer versions of Ubuntu as well as other Debian based distributions.

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Fedena Auto-Installer: Ubuntu (Server)

Posted byuserRalph on February 4th, 2015.

This is an auto-installer to automate the otherwise lengthy installation process of Foradian’s School Management System, Fedena. You will need a Dedicated or Virtual Private Server (VPS). I recommend Digital Ocean. This script has been updated and will now run on Ubuntu 16.04. The estimated run time is 7 minutes. Login to your server using […]

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How To: Install Ruby 1.8, Rubygems on Ubuntu 14.04

Posted byuserRalph on February 4th, 2015.

In this guide, we will learn how to install Ruby 1.8 and Rubygems 1.3.7 on Ubuntu 14.04. This guide was a result of my frustration trying to get Fedena running on Ubuntu 14.04. After hours of research, I finally figured out how to do it right. Read on!

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How To: Set the Timezone on Ubuntu (Server)

Posted byuserRalph on February 2nd, 2015.

Like most server administrators, I find myself needing to analyse server logs for some reason. It’s pretty annoying when you view log files in an attempt to make sense of your data only to find the time-stamps on events don’t correspond to your local time.

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How To: Install eXo Platform on Ubuntu

Posted byuserRalph on November 29th, 2014.

eXo Platform is an open source, standard-based, Enterprise Social Platform written in Java and distributed under the GNU Lesser General Public License. It is full featured, based on standards, extensible and has an amazing design. In this guide, I’ll show how to install eXo Platform on an Ubuntu 14.04 VPS. Although this guide was written […]