Upgrading Ubuntu Dapper to Edgy

After some thought I finally convinced myself to upgrade my Ubuntu Dapper to Edgy. Why it took me a while to upgrade it ? Well I haven't used any LINUX box in a very long time or haven't tinkered with LINUX for a while, so making mistakes when upgrading would be a pain in the neck. Anyway I've found that upgrading Ubuntu is much easier now in comparison to upgrading LINUX OS from before. I used the command shell upgrade since I'm using the server Ubuntu Dapper. Below is how to do the upgrade.

1. Edit your /etc/apt/sources.list as root. Change every occurrence of dapper to edgy.

a. ) To do this either use the command

sudo vi /etc/apt/sources.list

or use the command

sudo sed -e ’s/\sdapper/ edgy/g’ -i /etc/apt/sources.list

2. Update the source list with the command

sudo apt-get update

3. Upgrade your system with the following command

sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

4. To double check if your upgrade was finished properly use the following command

sudo apt-get -f install

5. For the changes to take effect you need to restart your system.

Hope that helps.

Japanese Canned Foods/Snacks

In my 4 years stay in Japan, I have seen a lot of different foods and dishes. From eating ikuradon to nattou and uni and lately uma sashimi (horse meat sashimi). There are a lot different dishes that I haven't tried yet well some of which are the common canned foods or snacks. I have tried canned soups (mostly corn soup) but I yet to try canned oden and the newly released canned ramen. A short description of oden from the wikipedia is written as follows.

Oden is a Japanese winter dish consisting of several ingredients such as boiled eggs, daikon radish, konnyaku and processed fish cakes stewed in a light, soy-flavoured dashi broth. Ingredients vary according to region and between each household. Karashi (Japanese mustard) is often used as a condiment.

Oden in can have become one of the popular otaku foods. When you go to akihabara you will see a lot of different kinds of oden in can. I'm planning to try both oden in can and ramen in can this weekend. A few of the brands and pictures of what's inside is as follows.

Ubuntu Server (6.06) Dapper Drake + XAMPP for LINUX

Last time I dabbled in Linux was about 5-6 years ago when I created a proxy server and e-mail server for the office then (we didn't have a host yet back then). I wanted to try and setup a webpage server running in Virtual PC and Fedora, however due to the fact that I haven't been updated with the current changes and that my desktop is an old Pentium 4 (1.2 Ghz), installing Fedora in Virtual PC was a task uncalled for. It slowed down my system and I couldn't do anything else with it with both Windows and Fedora running simultaneously. So searching for an alternative I ended up using Ubuntu (Dapper Drake or 6.06) which is my first time using it. So far after blotching up with my first attempt to install it, I finally found a nice Perfect Setup Guide and just customized it a bit to add XAMPP for LINUX instead of the LAMPP installation. With ssh already installed, I just access the LINUX box using Putty client. So far it works fine. Initial results here

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