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a recent question on the xibo launchpad page asked for a detailed explaination on how to change the upload limit in php from the default 2mb to something else. i explained in detail on the question, but thought a visual guide would help others out. (click the images for a larger version)

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if you want to display your local weather on your xibo open source digital signage layouts, then this is the guide for you.

My setup -

Software: Ubuntu 10.04, Xibo 1.2.0-rc2 server, Xibo 1.2.0-rc2 python client. the server is hosted on a vps at bluemile cloud (great prices). custom bash script to download xml file from noaa, place it into a directory on your website, and a cron job to run that script every hour

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i need to backup my zimbra server at work to our windows server for nightly backups. to do so, i followed this thread at ubuntu forums which tells you to do the following:

install the smbfs package installed:

sudo apt-get install smbfs

then create the mount point:

sudo mkdir /mnt/winshare

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this is a simple mod that you can use to compress your website using gzip which will reduce your bandwidth. this is dead easy to setup in ubuntu. to do so, log into your webserver via ssh or locally if you dont run it headless like me. then enabled (continue reading…)