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Ben McCann

Co-founder of Zenos.
Investor at C3 Ventures.
Google and CMU alum.

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November 2011

Running Ubuntu on VirtualBox

11/30/2011

I had to figure out a few things to get Ubuntu installed and working well on VirtualBox. I had to enable virtualization technologies in my BIOS. I have a Lenovo T520 and did this by pressing F1 during startup and then going to Security > Virtualization. If I did not do this then I would Read More

SSL on localhost with nginx

11/14/2011

Install nginx if it’s not already installed: sudo apt-get install nginx You must have the SSL module installed. The nginx docs say this is not standard. However, it does come installed on Ubuntu. You can verify by running nginx -V and looking for –with-http_ssl_module. Next up is generating the SSL certs. Follow the Slicehost docs Read More

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