If you, like me, use sysv-rc-conf to change the services that run a particular runlevel, i.e. so that runlevel 2 is actually only networked and not GUI as tradition holds, you can set the default runlevel to boot in Ubuntu by editing:
/etc/inittab: id:3:initdefault
The number in the middle is the runlevel to start by default.
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In order for me to use the official binary drivers, version 169.12, from NVidia with my GeForce 8800GT on Ubuntu Gutsy, I had to do some research. Alberto Milone’s envy tool makes the whole thing almost idiot-proof.
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My desktop just grew by two 500GB Western Digital Caviar drives. Having installed those, I loaded Gutsy-AMD64 on one using LVM. The partition schema is as follows:
Drive: 500GB #1 Volume Group: server1 Volumes: swap_1 - 6GB - swap root_1 - 30GB - ext3 - mounted as / home_1 - 20GB - ext3 - mounted as /home/ Free space: ~398GB
500GB number two will probably wind up being a RAID mirror via my motherboard. This LVM layout allows me to dynamically allocate space for the many potential Xen DomUs I create.
To install Xen on Gutsy-AMD64 desktop version:
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-xen-desktop-amd64
On my home server I’m toying with some Rails clustering and such, using nginx and thin, and now God to watch over things.
With this setup, I can add apps and port-ranges to monitor any time I like, and I can split off a particularly specific configuration group if an app has unusual trends or requirements, such as using loads of memory.
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Shane | 
04 24th, 2008| 