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Setting up Nginx / PHP-FPM on Ubuntu 10.04

December 05, 2011 - Chris Ng

Here is how I got this running on a VirtualBox guest quickly and easily.

First I update sources:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install python-software-properties
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nginx/stable
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nginx/php5

Then install the software:

sudo apt-get install nginx
sudo apt-get install php5-fpm

Next step is to enable fastcgi in /etc/nginx/sites-available/default

# pass the PHP scripts to FastCGI server listening on 127.0.0.1:9000
#
location ~ \.php$ {

Run Internet Explorer 7 on a Mac

January 28, 2010 - Chris Ng

While investigating mysterious textfield behaviour on a site, I had need of testing on the venerable Internet Explorer 7 (IE7), which I've found to be somewhat of a quirky beast.

In the past, I would've just fired up Windows XP on
VirtualBox and run IETester, but since doing a clean install of Snow Leopard, I haven't had a chance to restore the virtual machines. Well, I would've restored them if I hadn't been using an older version of VirtualBox that allowed me to re-use the virtual machine images, but I digress.

Luckily, a bit of Googling led me to WineBottler, a nifty tool that allows you to run Windows executables under WINE.

Hackintosh!

January 19, 2010 - Chris Ng

I'm a little late in posting this (it's been a slow blogging month) but sometime in December I finally hopped on the bandwagon and installed Snow Leopard on my Dell Mini 9 netbook (which sadly is no longer available).

I followed this excellent guide with some caveats, which I'll talk about below. I just want to say thanks to the smart industrious folks that keep the hackintosh community going. Without you there would be... umm, no community.

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