The other day, I ran an update on my Maverick box that wiped out my video settings. Nvidia released a nice new driver for GeForce 6000+ but I’m using a GeForce 5 series card so I think the upgrade probably replaced my video settings with the nice new ones.
There are a lot of unresolved forum posts about this … if you’re using an older video card, you just need to uninstall the new Nvidia drivers and re-install the legacy drivers:
apt-get remove --purge nvidia-current apt-get install nvidia-173
I have 2 Plone 2.0 websites running on a single Zope instance that I need to:
I’ve been slowly migrating from my desktop to my laptop so I’ve been setting it up piecemeal.
I do a lot of work within Terminal and not having directory and file coloring drives me nuts after a while. To add colors Continue reading
The problem with setting up an environment piecemeal is when you sit down to do something, you have to figure out what rabbit hole you’d gone down when you left off. In this case, I remembered installing mysql, but usually the last thing I do when I install mysql is install phpmyadmin because it’s such a handy productivity tool. Well, there was no phpmyadmin on my system, but that could be because Snow Leopard came with PHP 5.3 out of the box which is incompatible with most of the popular PHP web applications out there. Continue reading
Delete files from the target directory that have been deleted in the source directory
rsync -avz -e ssh --delete remoteuser@remotehost:/remote/dir/ /this/dir/ Continue reading
You can recover MySQL database server password with following five steps.
Step # 1: Stop the MySQL server process.
Step # 2: Start the MySQL (mysqld) server/daemon process with the –skip-grant-tables option so that it will not prompt for password
Step # 3: Connect to mysql server as the root user
Step # 4: Setup new root password
Step # 5: Exit and restart MySQL server Continue reading
Update everything
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade Continue reading
I know there are plenty of articles and posts for setting up a development server. Yet I still find the need to write up the exact commands and process for my later self to refer to, especially since I haven’t found a clone function in VMware Fusion like the linux version has. A pet “when-I-have-time” project would be to turn these steps into a bash script. Continue reading
This is on a freshly installed Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon). Modify version numbers as needed
sudo apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r` build-essential xinetd