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Inter-generational tattoos

posted on January 31, 2007 in Cool Stuff with 1 Comment

Awesome picture. The photograph was taken by photographer Bruce Osborn during an interview about inter-generational tattoos. â€œHer parents were tattooists and the girl got a huge shock when she entered a sent?, a public bath, for the first time. Until that event it was in her mind that all the adults must have tattoos. Everybody [...]

Inspecting the contents of an initrd file.

posted on January 29, 2007 in Linux with 0 Comments

Today’s kernels are moving towards initramfs type initrd files. Initramfs is basicly a cpio archive so all we have to do is uncompress it’s contents to a temp folder. The example below uses the file initrd.SLES10.x64.img from a SLES 10 implementaion. #create a temp directory >mkdir /tmp/initramfstmp >cd /tmp/initramfstmp #copy the initrd file to the [...]

Flash Element TD

posted on January 26, 2007 in Cool Stuff with 0 Comments

A game based on Warcraft TD and desinged by David Scott. If you have spare time or feel stressed as I do mostly all the time nowadays then this the game you should be playing. The idea of the game is to build towers in strategic areas on the map and prevent the creeps from [...]

The Ninja text tool

posted on January 24, 2007 in Cool Stuff with 0 Comments

Like what you see? You can have the same effects at fodey. Source: earlmarcus.com

Setting the root password on MySQL

posted on January 23, 2007 in Linux with 2 Comments

I just installed MySQL version 4.1.20 on my CentOS 4.4 server. The default install of MySQL server uses a blank password for root so I had to have it changed. I also set the MySQL service to start up every time my machine boots up. This is how I did it; Method 1 1. # [...]

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