Setting time on Ubuntu server

I had a lot of trouble setting my Ubuntu server's system clock. date, ntpdate, and the ntp severver daemon will are failing to set the date/time. Apparently if you are running linux with 2.6.18 kernel you need to detach from the host's clocksource

Displaying CCK Fields in a Region

Sometimes you want to move a cck field out of the main content area and put it in a region like a left or right sidebar.

There are some options for this that include a number of modules and perhaps panels, but I wanted a lighter weight solution and the solution is: CCK and Views!

My goal here was to have a related content block for a given node of type page. So:

Step 1: create a cck node reference field that references other page nodes (or any other content type you'd like to use).

Step 2: create a view called related_pages.

Installing Aegir Hosting System on OSX 10.6 with MAMP

Cross posted at http://groups.drupal.org/node/30270.

Aegir install on OSX Snow Leopard

Aegir install instructions are fantastic if you run Debian/Ubuntu Linux. Some of the steps for OS X are a quite different

Getting Wildcard DNS running on OSX Snow Leopard

Note: it took me several tries to get this working. If you are new to DNS be patient with yourself - you'll get it, but may take a few tries.