For those of you that run AVG Free (free for personal use) there is a major update available. For those of you that don’t run any antivirus software on your computer - SHAME ON YOU!
This new version includes anti-spyware, so if you have AVG’s anti-spyware (Ewido) installed, you’ll have to uninstall it first (go to Control Panel, then Add/Remove Programs.)
Here are a few bonuses of AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition:

• available free of charge to home users for the life of the product
• virus database updates are available for the lifetime of the product
• doesn’t slow your system down (like other anti-virus systems I’ve seen)
• integrated spyware protection
• LinkScanner feature that gives users safety rankings for their Google, Yahoo, and MSN searches.

So, go and download it!
The install only takes a few minutes so don’t put it off, do it now!

I see no problem with running phpBB, but there are so many people that don’t keep their software up to date. This is one reason why I hate to have 50 different types of software running on my servers. It’s just more to keep track of and hard to stay up to date on everything.
Here’s a link to the ComputerWorld article.

Oh that reminds me, I need to update my version of wordpress. BRB.

I just released another Ubuntu public AMI for Amazon EC2. This one is nearly identical to the first one I released except it can be used with large and extra large instances.

Here are the current tech specs and costs for the different instance sizes:

Small Instance (Default) - $0.10/hr
1.7 GB of memory, 1 EC2 Compute Unit (1 virtual core with 1 EC2 Compute Unit), 160 GB of instance storage, 32-bit platform
Large Instance - $0.40/hr
7.5 GB of memory, 4 EC2 Compute Units (2 virtual cores with 2 EC2 Compute Units each), 850 GB of instance storage, 64-bit platform
Extra Large Instance - $0.80/hr
15 GB of memory, 8 EC2 Compute Units (4 virtual cores with 2 EC2 Compute Units each), 1690 GB of instance storage, 64-bit platform

I’ve been using iFolder for a few years now and am now in the process of switching my desktop from SuSE 10.1 to Kubuntu Gutsy. I was a little saddened that I couldn’t find a native ifolder package for ubuntu, so I had to compile it myself.

I found these instructions and my own are almost identical. I found a few things that I had to do differently.

1. Install dependencies - These are the dependencies I found were required.
   sudo apt-get install libmono-dev mono-xsp mono-gmcs libflaim-dev libflaim4.1 liblog4net1.2-cil build-essential automake libxml2 libxml2-dev libtool gtk-sharp2 gnome-sharp2 arch-buildpackage gtk-sharp libeel2-2 subversion gettext libstdc++5 libgtk2.0-dev
2. Make a directory for all the source code (I used ifolder-src in my home dir.)
3. Download the source code - from within your new directory, run:
   svn co https://forgesvn1.novell.com/svn/ifolder/branches/ifolder_3_4_sled10sp1/ifolder
svn co https://forgesvn1.novell.com/svn/simias/branches/ifolder_3_4_sled10sp1/simias
4. Build Simias - I like the idea of putting all this custom compiled stuff into one location (to make cleanup easier if necessary.)
   cd simias
./autogen.sh --prefix=/opt/ifolder
make
sudo make install
5. Prep to build iFolder - There are a few things you need to do to get ready
   cd ../ifolder
   edit src/LinuxClient/application/iFolderApplication.cs and change “TrayIcon” to “Egg.TrayIcon” on (or near) lines 68 and 144.
   add a symlink for the arch command
   sudo ln -s /usr/bin/setarch /bin/arch
cp /usr/share/gettext/config.rpath .
6. Build and install iFolder
./autogen.sh –prefix=/opt/ifolder
make
sudo make install

Done!
iFolder can now be run with this command /opt/ifolder/bin/ifolder
If you want to make pretty link to the application on your desktop, you can use the iFolder image found here: /opt/ifolder/share/ifolder3/images/ifolder128.png

I’ve been using my wife’s macbook more and more, due to my old Dell slowly dying. Since I spend most of my life at a command prompt, I like to customized it a little so I’m more efficient.
Unfortunately, OS X doesn’t automatically load your .bashrc when you start up a command window. Fortunately, it’s easy to enable:
sudo vi /etc/profile
Enter your password and add this line:
[ -r $HOME/.bashrc ] && source $HOME/.bashrc
There you have it. I’ll post some of the aliases and settings I like to have in my .bashrc later.