Nerdica

So, if you've been trying to visit Nerdica.com (ahhh, old posts) for the past couple hours, you'll notice that it's been down. I've currently just switched to Dreamhost, and I'm liking it so far. The main reason I switched is because my previous host, 1&1, was slow. Some of my friends never had problems with 1&1, but my site would take almost 10 seconds to appear most of the time. Sometimes even 2-3 minutes, and that was just ridiculous. Immediately after I switched, Nerdica loaded in 2-3 seconds. And after a little Wordpress tweaking, the site loads ... [Read more]

After browsing the web to find other people looking in random places for help, I've decided to add a forums feature to the site. If you ever have trouble, or would like to discuss Nerdica.com, feel free to do so on the brand new forums at http://nerdica.com/forums.

Introduction

Wanna know what really goes into just adding that simple extra line in "sources.list" for your favorite Ubuntu repositories? Well, in this article, I'll be detailing some of the work I do while maintaining the CLUG Ubuntu software repository. Listed here will be the basics of how to set up a repository to share your Ubuntu software packages, and a few notes on how to update the repository and troubleshooting a few things you may run into.

Ubuntu (or Debian) software repositories are usually simply hosted on HTTP web servers. There a several directories used for storing the software ... [Read more]