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How to reset the root password for MySQL

posted on August 13, 2008 in HowTo, Linux with 0 Comments

It happens, you set a super complicated password for your MySQL root account and 2 months down the road forget what it was. Here’s how you’d fix that. 1. Stop your current MySQL database if it is running root@abubu# service mysqld stop 2. Start MySQL in safe mode and bypass reading the privilege table. root@abubu# [...]

My openSUSE 11 repositories

posted on August 10, 2008 in HowTo, Linux, Open Source, Software with 4 Comments

These are the repositories I typically use with my openSUSE installs. Might come in handy for you

Linus Torvalds feels the security scene is over glorified

posted on August 7, 2008 in Linux with 1 Comment

Security people are often the black-and-white kind of people that I can’t stand. I think the OpenBSD crowd is a bunch of masturbating monkeys, in that they make such a big deal about concentrating on security to the point where they pretty much admit that nothing else matters to them. That’s what Linus Torvalds had [...]

Sudo enable Yast in openSUSE 11

posted on August 6, 2008 in HowTo, Linux with 0 Comments

One of annoyance I found on openSUSE 11 is that Yast is no longer sudo enabled. The privilege elevation sudo line “[username] ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL” works with everything else except for Yast. In versions prior to openSUSE 11 sudo worked fine with Yast. Apparently in openSUSE 11 Yast sudo was switched to su. Here’s how [...]

Microsoft to sponsor Apache Software Foundation

posted on July 30, 2008 in Linux, Open Source, Software, Tech with 2 Comments

Microsoft has announced that it will sponsor ASF “Apache Software Foundation”. Yahoo and Google are already on board. Microsoft was quick to say that they will not ditch IIS as tremendous work is constantly being put into it. IIS 8 is already in development and native support for PHP is on the todo list. As [...]

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