Installing MongoDB with Replication on Ubuntu

Here I describe how to install MongoDB on Ubuntu, with replication. I am using a replica set with 3 nodes (2 DB servers, and 1 arbiter).

Issues Installing x2go

I was having issues today after installing x2go.  Here is was I did to fix them.

Installing PyLucene on Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot)

I recently needed to install PyLucene for our developers on a server running Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot). Unfortunately the version in the repos was much too old, so I had to build it from source. Below I will describe what I did, in the hopes it will help someone else.