It has been awhile since I have posted here since work started blocking my website (BLOCKED FOR HACKING TUTORIALS – Seriously!) and I wanted to make sure I captured my current projects: VMware ESX Cluster Ubuntu 9.04 Bug Reports Cross architecture compiling Ducati! Thats it for now, expect some HOWTO on the stuff above here soon. Except for the Ducati part. The HOWTO is pretty simple, twist throttle and smile :)
I was thinking back to one of my favorite comics this morning as I danced around the room. There are certain songs that make me just dance around like there is no one else in the world. Out of the corner of my eye I caught a glimpse of my grooving and it made me write… Wind and branches Arms Grasshoppers and ants Feet Squint and squished Eyes Hula-hoop and grind ...
I formatted my iPod recently and noticed that Songbird still thought the Library had media on it. Loading up a factory restore didn’t help. To clear the iPod cache here is the location: In the profiles directory you will see a db folder. Remove all iPod* folders and restart Songbird. Now the Library will show the blankness that is your iPod.
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: Travel Days for 2007
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 /etc/my.cnf and under [mysqld] skip-networking <– Disables network access set-variable=local-infile=0 <– prevent against unauthorized reading from local files bind-address=127.0.0.1 restart mysql /etc/init.d/mysqld restart