http://www.wongzhongming.com technology, food, and other hobbies Wed, 08 Apr 2009 01:49:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Disclaimer: I only recommend doing this on a local dev box, as I don't know what sort of (in)security implications this may have. There are times when, for the sake of convenience or testing, you may want to run multiple sites off your local machine. This can be accomplished by setting ... http://www.wongzhongming.com/2009/04/07/running-multiple-sites-on-your-local-apache-server-via-virtual-hosts/ Getting an Apache2 server running on your Ubuntu box for some local dev work is pretty easy. Install the apache2 package via the Synaptic Package Manager or sudo apt-get install. Unlike normal Apache2 installs though, the default Apache install in Ubuntu is located under /etc/apache2/. Without getting into nitty-gritty configuration details, ... http://www.wongzhongming.com/2009/04/07/setting-up-a-local-apache2-server-on-ubuntu/ Similar to the XP Setup post, I won't be covering the actual Intrepid installation (which is made incredibly easy by the guided install). I'll be going over the major pieces of software I installed, and finishing up with some comments about various issues I ran into. Note that this guide ... http://www.wongzhongming.com/2009/04/05/dual-booting-on-the-e6400-setting-up-ubuntu-intrepid-ibex/ I've been using Jeffrey Friedl's "Export to Flickr" Lightroom Plugin for about a month now, and I have to say that it's a pretty solid plugin. My motive for finding an alternative to Flickr's Uploadr was to automate my backup workflow - manually exporting all my RAW files to JPGs ... http://www.wongzhongming.com/2009/02/21/export-to-flickr-plugin-for-lightroom/ When taking photos in a different time zone, I usually adjust the capture time during post-processing in Lightroom, rather than directly adjusting the time and date on my camera. This is easily accomplished by going to Metadata -> Edit Capture Time, and choosing the second option in the window that ... http://www.wongzhongming.com/2009/02/21/editing-capture-time-in-lightroom/ Just a small update for my readers - I apologize for the lack of activity over the past few days. I've been preoccupied with eliminating a huge backlog of unedited photos from my trip to Taiwan, from this year as well as last. Those interested can take a look at ... http://www.wongzhongming.com/2009/02/14/been-away-working-on-my-photos/ There may be times when you want to keep certain files out of Subversion. Examples of these include local configuration files and temporary files like those created by vim. Fortunately, Subversion has an option to specify exclusions, via svn:ignore. To do this, run the following in a terminal svn propedit svn:ignore ... http://www.wongzhongming.com/2009/02/05/ignoring-files-in-subversion-with-svnignore/ While enabling simplified Chinese in both Windows XP and Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex is pretty straightforward, getting traditional Chinese to work is a bit more roundabout. To enable in XP... Go to the Control Panel and open Regional and Language Options. Select the Languages tab and click Details. Also, make sure you've already installed ... http://www.wongzhongming.com/2009/02/05/enabling-traditional-chinese-pinyin-input-on-windows-xp-and-ubuntu-intrepid-ibex/ While I don't normally use source control for personal projects, I figured it would be a handy tool to sync files between numerous computers, and useful for a site that's likely to go through many revisions. While setting up Subversion is pretty straightforward on Dreamhost, I sought an explanation for ... http://www.wongzhongming.com/2009/01/29/setting-up-subversion-and-viewvc-on-dreamhost/ As the title suggests, I'll only be covering the post-XP install setup for the Latitude e6400, as there are many other resources out there outlining the installation already, like this XP Installation and Upgrade guide from Paul Thurrott's SuperSite. Make sure you decide on a partitioning scheme to use for ... http://www.wongzhongming.com/2009/01/26/dual-booting-on-the-e6400-part-two-setting-up-windows-xp/