NGINX on Raspberry Pi installation guide

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This short guide teaches you how to install the NGINX webserver on your Raspberry Pi running Raspbian.

Run the following commands in the terminal:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y nginx php5-fpm
sudo service nginx start

How-to move the Sims 3 save game to a different location

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the sims 3 savegame can be multiple gigabytes large
in Windows, you could use a symbolic link to trick the game where the savegame is located;

in DOS run the following command, and replace Ramon by your Windows Username

mklink /J "C:\Users\Ramon\Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3" "D:\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3"

Packt’s $5 eBook Bonanza is back!

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Packt Publishing just informed me today that, like last year, they have a spectacular sale on eBooks this December 2013 !

From December 19th, customers will be able to get any eBook or Video from Packt for just $5. This sale covers every title in the 1700+ range and customers can grab as many as they like until January 3rd 2014 – more information is available at This offer covers a myriad of titles in the 1700+ range where customers will be able to grab as many as they like until January 3rd 2014
www.packtpub.com/ebookbonanza 

$5 ebook Bonanza1

May I recommend the following books, which I`ve reviewed on this blog;

How-To Fedora 20 LAMP installation

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This short guide demonstrates how to setup Fedora 20 as a LAMP server containing Apache, PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby and MySQL.

You have to use the shell and be able to use the machine as  root.

Start the terminal and run:

sudo yum install -y httpd php php-mysql php-gd php-imap php-ldap php-odbc php-pear php-xml php-xmlrpc php-magickwand php-mbstring php-mcrypt php-mssql php-shout php-snmp php-soap php-tidy php-mysql php-odbc php-pear php-mhash curl perl-libwww-perl ImageMagick libxml2 php-pecl-apc mysql mysql-server phpmyadmin ruby mod_python perl mod_perl perl-HTML-Parser perl-DBI perl-Net-DNS perl-Digest-SHA1 perl-ExtUtils-AutoInstall perl-NetAddr-IP perl-Archive-Tar

Second step is to enable the Apache Webserver and MySQL Database server;

sudo systemctl enable httpd.service sudo systemctl start httpd.service sudo systemctl enable mysqld.service sudo systemctl start mysqld.service sudo mysql_secure_installation