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Travel Days for 2008

By Nick On 2008/12/31 · · In Personal

Why stop a geeky tradition?! Here is 2008′s travel graphs. This year I did hit the 2 full trips around the Earth. I am not sure what 2009 holds, but I had a 30% increase in travel and I only have 17% to go before it is a full 100. Here is last years stats: [...]

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Securing MySQL

By Nick On 2008/12/31 · · In Personal

Here is my quick secure guide for MySQL:

Rename root user account mysql -u root -p use mysql; update user set user=”mydbadmin” where user=”root”; flush privileges; Set the root password for database mysqladmin -u mydbadmin password ‘the-new-password’ Drop default test database mysql -u mydbadmin -p drop database test; quit; Edit the MySQL server config vi [...]

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Fix for Songbird and iPod

By Nick On 2008/12/28 · · In Personal

I LOVE SONGBIRD, but it wouldn’t recognize my iPod Shuffle. I use this one to workout and need hopping tunes to keep my miles time down. If you have an iPod that refuses to be recognized here is the fix:

Connect iPod Open terminal cd /Volumes/$IPOD_NAME where IPOD_NAME is obviously the name of your iPod [...]

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Keeping on my Toes – Mac to Linux and back

By Nick On 2008/12/27 · · In Personal

I love my MacBook Pro more than I love my motorcycle. There I said it. When I don’t get a chance to ride my motorcycle I get cranky and irritable, but when I don’t know where my computer is…death to all. The only thing that exceeds my love of Mac is my love of Linux. [...]

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Similarities between Santa and System Administrators

By Nick On 2008/12/25 · · In Personal

Santa is bearded, corpulent, and dresses funny.
When you ask Santa for something, the odds of receiving what you wanted are infinitesimal.
Santa seldom answers your mail.
When you ask Santa where he gets all the stuff he’s got, he says, “Elves make it for me.”
Santa doesn’t care about your [...]

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    • Nick Schmidt lives passionately in the digital world advising and advancing technology everywhere he goes. He has served in the US Air Force, been a self-employed consultant, a senior manager and chief engineer at Boeing, and now co-founding and running Spec Ops Technology. Decorated in his military and professional career you can find his work in the nations networks and across the web.

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