elvis' big fat Free Software / Linux 101 sticky thread - Page 7

nucence · 5th March 2011, 7:52 PM

Just wondering what would be an equivalent software to Quicken/MYOB and able to run on Ubuntu?

I am slowly converting my machines and server over to Ubuntu and this is the only problem i can see at the moment.

I have had a look around and there are a few options, but was wondering what the most popular and used programs are.

Cheers
Michael

^catalyst · 18th March 2011, 6:34 PM

nuence,

I got curious; http://www.appgen.com/ seemed to be the most legit looking thing I came across.

Linked from : (be wary; shocking visuals - http://www.aaxnet.com/design/linuxacct.html)

elvis · 18th March 2011, 6:46 PM

If anyone feels like putting this in the OCAU wiki, please go ahead. I have zero time to myself these days, but feel it should be somewhere where other people can edit it and keep it up to date (a quick glance through the first few pages of posts show just how far out of date some of the information is).

FalconGT · 18th March 2011, 7:04 PM

Came across this today which might be useful for someone.

ddar is a free de-duplicating archiver for Unix. Save space, bandwidth and time by storing duplicate regions of data only once. Use ddar to:

Back up local data to a remote server, each time saving space, upload bandwidth and time by only transferring data not already present on the remote server. This is what cloud backup services like Tarsnap allow you to do already. Now you can use your own storage and internal bandwidth to achieve the same thing.

Back up remote data to a local disk, downloading and storing only changed data each time (the inverse of the above).

Back up local data to a local external disk, each time saving time and space by only writing data that was not present on the disk already. I have six gzipped tarballs of around 50 GiB each of my laptop stored on my external disk, but all together they are only using 64 GiB of storage.

Efficiently store any data that has redundancy. ddar will exploit redundancy across different files stored at any time.

http://www.synctus.com/ddar/

nucence · 19th March 2011, 12:47 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ^catalyst

nuence,

I got curious; http://www.appgen.com/ seemed to be the most legit looking thing I came across.

Thanks ^catalyst, i will check it out over the weekend, i have changed my plans now and bought a whole new gaming rig and am running win 7 so therefore i might keep my quickbooks.

^catalyst · 20th March 2011, 9:43 PM

Having some difficulty with the G4, so I've gone all VM. Just got the whole WordPress shebang going withing Ubuntu 10.10 via vmware player.

Quite entertaining really

Not sure how the DNS/DHCP will go thru the VM- But I've got a feeling I'll have an intel mac spare in the near future...

And nuence; sounds like a double win. Keep your current software / play some team fortress

elvis · 20th March 2011, 9:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ^catalyst

Not sure how the DNS/DHCP will go thru the VM- But I've got a feeling I'll have an intel mac spare in the near future...

If you choose a bridged network setup, then any VM will listen on the same broadcast and respond accordingly.

My wife runs Ubuntu 10.10 on her laptop, with WinXP inside VirtualBox for her MYOB work. The WinXP VM happily sees our home DHCP and DNS server.

^catalyst · 20th March 2011, 10:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by elvis

If you choose a bridged network setup, then any VM will listen on the same broadcast and respond accordingly.

My wife runs Ubuntu 10.10 on her laptop, with WinXP inside VirtualBox for her MYOB work. The WinXP VM happily sees our home DHCP and DNS server.

Well, I just tried that and its broken Wordpress; re-setup wordpress and now its half working but failing after timing out trying to point to the old ip address...

Hrmpf, the html code references the old address; I think I see what happened.

edit: fixed.

elvis · 20th March 2011, 11:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ^catalyst

Well, I just tried that and its broken Wordpress; re-setup wordpress and now its half working but failing after timing out trying to point to the old ip address...

Hrmpf, the html code references the old address; I think I see what happened.

edit: fixed.

That's not the fault of either Linux nor DHCP.

^catalyst · 21st March 2011, 4:04 PM

Oh I'm aware of that, I'm quite a handy windows / network tech so I get what it all does.

The thing is the wordpress config seemingly relies on the URL you have in the address bar while it configures the wp-config.php. So, say you point your browser to localhost... You can guess what happens.

So, re-doing the wordpress install / clearing the old sql stuff with the browser pointing to 192.168.0.12 (VM's IP) then doing it solves the issue. I suppose when its on a remote server it makes sense as you'll have the correct address in the bar.

von Stalhein · 21st March 2011, 4:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ^catalyst

Oh I'm aware of that, I'm quite a handy windows / network tech so I get what it all does.

The thing is the wordpress config seemingly relies on the URL you have in the address bar while it configures the wp-config.php. So, say you point your browser to localhost... You can guess what happens.

So, re-doing the wordpress install / clearing the old sql stuff with the browser pointing to 192.168.0.12 (VM's IP) then doing it solves the issue. I suppose when its on a remote server it makes sense as you'll have the correct address in the bar.

Laughed out loud at that - I'm not a handy windows/network tech, so I did originally and n00bishly pointed my first WP setup to localhost.

Hilarity ensued.

Captain Kidd · 21st March 2011, 10:41 PM

Thankyou, you have taught me so much

^catalyst · 22nd March 2011, 9:06 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by von Stalhein

Laughed out loud at that - I'm not a handy windows/network tech, so I did originally and n00bishly pointed my first WP setup to localhost.

Hilarity ensued.

Yeah it had me a little confused; you'd hit up the front page of the wp blog but hit any links and it all went to shit!

elvis · 20th April 2011, 11:47 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by FalconGT

ddar is a free de-duplicating archiver for Unix. Save space, bandwidth and time by storing duplicate regions of data only once.

Nice. I'll be trying that myself, I think. I've got a small business client of mine using snapshot:

http://www.rsnapshot.org/

It's better for online storage (snapshots are exported read-only via NFS/Samba for users to self-manage restores), but for long term, offsite storage, it is limited compared to ddar.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Captain Kidd

Thankyou, you have taught me so much

No worries. I genuinely hope it's demystified a few things for a few people, and maybe even lowered that first learning step a little for some.

Linux can be a scary world for people who've never seen it before, but it's great fun (and highly productive) if you can get past that first hurdle.

Orphan · 23rd May 2011, 9:15 PM

Thanks for posting all that elvis. I will be giving Linux a go on my old HDD as it is something I will need to learn to use well in the future.

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18th March 2011, 6:34 PM	#92
^catalyst Member Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: melbourne Posts: 10,031	nuence, I got curious; http://www.appgen.com/ seemed to be the most legit looking thing I came across. Linked from : (be wary; shocking visuals - http://www.aaxnet.com/design/linuxacct.html)

18th March 2011, 7:04 PM	#94
FalconGT Member Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Ballina Posts: 1,506	Came across this today which might be useful for someone. ddar is a free de-duplicating archiver for Unix. Save space, bandwidth and time by storing duplicate regions of data only once. Use ddar to: Back up local data to a remote server, each time saving space, upload bandwidth and time by only transferring data not already present on the remote server. This is what cloud backup services like Tarsnap allow you to do already. Now you can use your own storage and internal bandwidth to achieve the same thing. Back up remote data to a local disk, downloading and storing only changed data each time (the inverse of the above). Back up local data to a local external disk, each time saving time and space by only writing data that was not present on the disk already. I have six gzipped tarballs of around 50 GiB each of my laptop stored on my external disk, but all together they are only using 64 GiB of storage. Efficiently store any data that has redundancy. ddar will exploit redundancy across different files stored at any time. http://www.synctus.com/ddar/

20th March 2011, 9:43 PM	#96
^catalyst Member Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: melbourne Posts: 10,031	Having some difficulty with the G4, so I've gone all VM. Just got the whole WordPress shebang going withing Ubuntu 10.10 via vmware player. Quite entertaining really Not sure how the DNS/DHCP will go thru the VM- But I've got a feeling I'll have an intel mac spare in the near future... And nuence; sounds like a double win. Keep your current software / play some team fortress

21st March 2011, 4:04 PM	#100
^catalyst Member Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: melbourne Posts: 10,031	Oh I'm aware of that, I'm quite a handy windows / network tech so I get what it all does. The thing is the wordpress config seemingly relies on the URL you have in the address bar while it configures the wp-config.php. So, say you point your browser to localhost... You can guess what happens. So, re-doing the wordpress install / clearing the old sql stuff with the browser pointing to 192.168.0.12 (VM's IP) then doing it solves the issue. I suppose when its on a remote server it makes sense as you'll have the correct address in the bar.

21st March 2011, 10:41 PM	#102
Captain Kidd Member Join Date: Mar 2011 Posts: 176	Thankyou, you have taught me so much