Justin Hartman

Justin Hartman

Justin Hartman is a South African entreprenuer who has been innovating in the digital landscape for more than seventeen years. Having pioneered and spearheaded a number of great businesses; Social Code and Afrigator, Justin Hartman is a true digital visionary.

Linux

iBook G4 now sporting Ubuntu Edgy Eft

2 minute read | Written on 2006-11-20 00:54:02 +0200

It had to happen and today it did. I have just completed a brand new Ubuntu 6.10 (codename Edgy Eft) Linux installation on my Apple iBook...

PowerPC canned by Ubuntu

1 minute read | Written on 2006-12-05 01:50:06 +0200

So go figure. 15 days after installing Ubuntu on my Apple iBook G4 a decision was made today to drop future support for PowerPC. For thos...

Mark Shuttleworth puts me in my place

2 minute read | Written on 2006-12-07 17:58:32 +0200

So this Ubuntu PowerPC issue has been bugging me a lot, so much so that I left the following comment on Mark Shuttleworth’s blog site thi...

Debian etch is now my local flavour

1 minute read | Written on 2006-12-15 01:19:37 +0200

After grappling long and hard about the whole Ubuntu dropping PowerPC support issue I have made a decision to move my Apple iBook G4 from...

Firefox not free?

1 minute read | Written on 2006-12-17 15:54:18 +0200

I’ve been running Debian on my Apple iBook for about a week now and a recent upgrade to the unstable version of Debian made me realise th...

How to swap Control and Command keys on PowerPC

1 minute read | Written on 2006-12-20 22:17:14 +0200

As a previous Apple OS X user I find that having to use the control key on my keyboard versus the Apple command key a real pain in the ba...

DNS Installation and Setup using BIND9

7 minute read | Written on 2007-01-15 18:45:00 +0200

This HOWTO will assist you in getting a Domain Name Server (DNS) up and running using BIND9 on Debian Etch.

PureFTPd Installation and Setup

3 minute read | Written on 2007-01-15 20:53:00 +0200

The following HOWTO is aimed at installing and setting up a FTP server, based on Pure-FTPd, which supports multiple Virtual Hosts.

Installing a second hard drive

2 minute read | Written on 2007-01-29 20:53:00 +0200

Installing a second hard drive is easy if you know how. I needed to do this on my server and below is the steps I followed.

Setting the time using Terminal

1 minute read | Written on 2007-03-06 20:25:00 +0200

This is really basic stuff but if you aren’t running a GUI then it isn’t as easy as opening up a Time & Date Settings control panel s...