November 2010

Combine multiple PDFs into a single file on Linux

One of the great features of the iPhone is the ability to load PDF files into the iBooks application… why lug paper around when you can have a huge amount of reading material right on your phone? One of the challenges of this is that many freely available materials come as 1 chapter per PDF file: Linux Device Drivers is just one example.  The…

Installing Java Runtime Engine on Turnkey LAMP Appliance

Turnkey Linux offers a LAMP (Linux Apache MySQL PHP) appliance – an ISO or VM to install or create a pre-configured Linux based web server.  The install is very streamlined offering minimal bloat, as well as many other advantages: pre-installed and configured applications, text GUI configuration on initial boot, configured for automatic updates, based on a Long Term Support (LTS) version of Ubuntu.  However,…