Setting up wordpress on Ubuntu 10.04

How to Backup WordPress

The best plugins for WP are listed

• WP-DB-Backup – by far the best backup tool.

Backing Up and Restoring Your MySQL Database

drop database databasename;

These are the networking security tools I have used:

• nmap – A very powerful tool to check what ports are open on what machines and tells what machines are on your network.
• wireshark – Packet sniffing tool that reads and tells were the internal network packet attack might be coming from.

DVD to AVI tools:

• bitripper

More tools for this here: SuperUser answers.

After using OS X for a few weeks now I am learning what the best software out there is for it.

Below is some of the good free software for OS X:

• Adium
• tweetdeck
• jdownloader
• skype
• keepass
• filezilla
• flock
• gedit
• kekaosx
• picasa
• snagit
• vlc
• utorrent
• http://www.macports.org/install.php
• cyberduck
• jellyfissh
• VIM, a great text editor.
• DarwinPortswikipedia
• Geany

Paid Software:

• Adobe CS4 Master Collection
• Camtasia
• Microsoft Office 2008
• RealVNC Enterprise

Some other random but I found useful information:

• File sharing between macs
• Syncing google calendar with ical/

These are packages that I use and recommend on my Linux Ubuntu box.

System Tools

• Filelight
  Displays a circular graph of the space used by your files, so you know when you
  have big files (for example, images of your work) that if you backup them you’ll save space.
  sudo apt-get install filelight
• gdmap
  Displays space used by files, but with squares.
  sudo apt-get install gdmap
• gParted
  Interface for partitioning your hard disk drive, and make it a bit easier, without having to reinstall everything.
  sudo apt-get install gparted
• aptoncd
  Just for Ubuntu and Debian. Allows to backup your packages installed in a CD so you can have them ready to
  install in another computer.
  sudo apt-get install aptoncd
• htop
  sudo apt-get install htop

Programming/Editor Tools

• PDFedit
  Free (and open source) editor for manipulating PDF documents. GUI version + command line interface.
  sudo apt-get install pdfedit
• Bluefish
  sudo apt-get install bluefish
• Meld
  A simple but powerful small tool that can compare two files or directories and tell you the differences, or merge them.
  sudo apt-get install meld
• vim
  sudo apt-get install vim

Music Tools

• SoundConverter

Photo Tools

• sudo apt-get install xaralx

Networking Tools

• gFTP

Media Players

• Boxee
• Songbird
  How to configure songbird.
• VLC Player

Downloading Tools

• JDownloader
• Deluge, download it here.
  sudo add-apt-repository ppa:deluge-team/ppa
sudo apt-get install deluge

GUI

• Mac Dock For Linux?
• GnomeDo
  sudo apt-get install gnome-do gnome-do-plugins
• Compiz

Additional

• p7zip
  sudo apt-get install p7zip
• TaskCoach
• KeePassX
  sudo apt-get install keepassx
• ntp
  sudo apt-get install ntp
• ubuntu-restricted-extras
  sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras

More Great Sites

This is great site to get applications

• Appnr

Other great lists of packages:

• Essential Ubuntu Productivity Apps
• Must have Ubuntu Packages from SuperUser.com
• Top 100 of the Best (Useful) OpenSource Applications

SugarCRM is a commercial open source CRM.

Some of the best instructions on installation –
Installing SugarCRM on Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron)
Installing SugarCRM Community Edition

Virtual Machines software I recommend.

Linux I recommendations:
VMWare
Xen

I hear this is good as well, though I have never tried it:
VirtualBox/

One of the best articles on initially configuring an Ubuntu system is from Slicehost, it goes into

Changing your port
Updating you firewall

Some general command line tools:

% lsb_release -a (What version of Ubuntu are you running?)
% cat /etc/lsb-release (What version of Ubuntu are you running? )

Some tools I find useful when doing upgrades:

• Ubuntu source generator allows you to generate a custom sources.list file

Here is a great article upgrading from 7.10 to 8.04 (Gutsy to Hardy).

My list of useful things you can do in Microsoft Excel 2007:

How to Create a Drop Down List

Validation with Lists:

VLOOKUP FUNCTION:

One of the best free add-ins I have seen for excel is ASAP Utilites.