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Martin Hope
kavisiegel
Asked: 2013-07-11 20:04:01 +0800 CST
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I'm spinning up some new servers and I'm tempted to make the leap to 13.04 solely because I can install php5 without a PPA. It's not a big deal, it's just a thought.

I've been using 12.04 for about a year now, it's served me quite well and I learned a lot on it.

I'm not worried about LTS, these servers will probably be replaced with bigger ones, rotated out, re-configured and re-created a few times a year.

I use only the remote shell to control the things, so Unity is a zero factor, I know that's a controversy these days so I figured I'd mention it doesn't matter here.

My stack is nginx, php5, and mongodb. I also use server side v8js in a few small places... if that is of any relevance.

Are there any other differences I should be aware of? My first reaction was "No big deal, newer is better, shouldn't make a difference" - but I can't find a clear answer anywhere that isn't related to UI.

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Martin Hope
kavisiegel
Asked: 2012-03-03 06:45:03 +0800 CST
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I am trying to update to install PHP 5.5, 5.6 or 7.0 in Ubuntu 12.04/14.04/16.04 LTS, and I can only get PHP 5.3.10 for Ubuntu 12.04, PHP 5.5.9 for Ubuntu 14.04 or PHP 7.0.4 for Ubuntu 16.04 using official repositories (using apt-get).

I'm not really sure how to do a manual update – as I need:

  • to play around with the new(est) PHP features
  • to install older PHP version due support in the software
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Martin Hope
kavisiegel
Asked: 2011-09-01 11:00:02 +0800 CST
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I installed updates, GNOME3, xampp, netbeans and a set of drivers. I went to restart the machine, and when coming back on, it hangs on a purple screen trying to turn back on. When I try to tap escape in order to get into the "safe" mode, it still hangs on the purple screen then eventually displays ^[^[^[^[ on the screen. It doesn't respond to keystrokes after that, but it does respond to the power button - it shuts back down gracefully, with the Ubuntu logo.

I booted into the cd and just ran it from there, so I'm thinking I can try and fix whatever damage is done and try to boot back from the hard drive. Any ideas on what went wrong and how to fix it?

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Martin Hope
kavisiegel
Asked: 2011-04-01 09:17:19 +0800 CST
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This all started with me trying to get 2-finger scroll working. In Windows, I got used to it. So I found a thread that said to run these commands:

synclient VertTwoFingerScroll=1
synclient HorizTwoFingerScroll=1
synclient EmulateTwoFingerMinW=5
synclient EmulateTwoFingerMinZ=48

It kinda worked, when I put one finger extremely close to the other. So another thread said to fine-tune the MinW and MinZ by doing synclient -m 150, where I got the error "Can't access shared memory area. SHMConfig disabled?"

So I set off to enable SHM Config. I found another post that said to edit my /etc/X11/xorg.conf file and add Option "SHMConfig" "on" - so that's in there, and I still get that error. My mouse is all over the place almost any time I touch it at this point!

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