There are certain free apps I have come to rely upon when setting up any new installation of Windows. Some of these aid in my work, some of them just aid in a providing better Windows experience. I thought I’d create a list of my top 5 favorites. To qualify…
During some recent server patches on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3, I kept getting ‘depsolve’ errors on several packages. This was odd, as I had not made any changes to anything, installed anything new, or removed anything. Turns out this is a known bug in 5.3, and luckily, the solution…
Have you ever been in a rush or just had a complete brain freeze with your MySQL passwords? Well…..I have. 🙂 ——————————- Step # 1 : Stop mysql service SHELL> /etc/init.d/mysql stop ——————————- Step # 2: Start to MySQL server w/o password: SHELL> mysqld_safe –skip-grant-tables & ——————————- Step # 3:…
I was poking through my blog posts from 5 years ago and found one referring to GMail invitations. I had forgotten that GMail was by invitation only for the first few months of its existence. Those were the days!
Over the past few years several people on the VMware communities forums have released patches to fix the vmware modules for the next “fresh” release of the Linux Kernel / Distro. I’ve used them in the past with much success, but I generally like waiting for the official VMware support.…
