So today, I was hanging out with my buddies who wanted to learn how to set up a web server (well one of them was teaching, the other was learning, and I just wanted to play some more with Ubuntu while hanging out with them) that consisted of Apache, PHP, and MySQL. (please know that I am totally nub) So our plan was to chill out with two laptops (one my Ubuntu system, and the other a Windows machine - No open source people, it is not what you think... ;) ). Unfortunately, there was a mission critical issue that we faced as the Windows machine was unable to function (due to a left at home crucial component - aka the power brick + plug). I told them, if they can bear the slowness ancient dinosaur that my laptop is, they are more than welcomed to set up a webserver on it (for localhost) to mess around with (haha me being a true Utilitarian).
So they took me up on the offer and to make things more accessible, we hooked it up to a bigger monitor (haha we sheepishly found how to mirror the laptop monitor to it), hooked up a USB keyboard and mouse and to me and my friend's complete surprise, it simply worked (in the words of Ubuntu). The thing that I've heard is it either works or it doesn't (which the latter tends to happen at times and when it does, you're pretty much boned - no FUD intended, just being objective).
Then setting up Apache, PHP, and MySQL, was real easy through the command line (again, I am teh nub - so no hate kthxbai). A far cry from the hour and a half it took on my 'normal' machine (again it is still my main machine - definitely not replacing it with Ubuntu). After that, it was smooth sailing and the lesson commenced (while I nodded kinda sorta understanding what was going on from a conceptual-though-not-really-technical point of view) and everybody was teh happy (and we all celebrated by stuffing our faces - kinda regretting that now though).
Yay?
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