Monthly Archives: October 2008

Change your password in Fedora

Posted on October 29, 2008 by admin

To change your user account password within Fedora Linux, open a terminal window and enter “passwd” and follow the steps. [Me@fedora ~]$ passwdChanging password for user Me.Changing password for Me(current) UNIX password:New UNIX password:Retype new UNIX password:passwd: all authentication tokens … Continue reading →

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Adding users to sudoers file

Posted on October 29, 2008 by admin

Run a terminal session with your “root” account and execute the following: echo ‘loginname ALL=(ALL) ALL’ >> /etc/sudoers Where ‘loginname’ is your user account.Use ‘ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL’ if you don’t want to be prompted a password.If you are prompted for a … Continue reading →

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Praise to Time Capsule

Posted on October 26, 2008 by admin

Last week, I dropped my MacBook in our living room. The net result? A failed hard drive. After a quick trip to Best Buy, I picked up a new drive and later that night had it plugged in. I suspect … Continue reading →

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Un-install MySQL from Mac OS X Leopard

Posted on October 18, 2008 by admin

This weekend, mucking around with Ruby on Rails and MySQL, I wanted to uninstall previous versions of MySQL that I had installed on my Mac. Quick Google search, and viola: sudo rm /usr/local/mysqlsudo rm -rf /usr/local/mysql*sudo rm -rf /Library/StartupItems/MySQLCOMsudo rm … Continue reading →

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And you think your system handles a high transactional volume?

Posted on October 10, 2008 by admin

My buddies at work always start chuckling when we look at some performance stats on our middle tier system. We proudly proclaim how we are pushing 5 transactions / second with a quarter second response time on average. This is … Continue reading →

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Meet the newest member of our family

Posted on October 3, 2008 by admin

Meet the newest member of our familyOriginally uploaded by K3bert

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