April 29th, 2012 by Penguin
Go get your camera, take pictures of everything you have that you consider valuable, and pictures of their serial numbers if applicable. Jewelry, Electronics, Everything. If possible put something in the image to verify your id, a drivers license, or simply yourself. Store these images on your computer and back them up to somewhere off site, or to the “cloud” These images will be of great use to you later should you ever have to get involved law enforcement or an insurance agency regarding a theft.
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February 9th, 2012 by Penguin
In this episode we will take a look at a script I use quite often to add local users using ldap credentials instead of arbitrary local usernames/ids.
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February 7th, 2012 by Penguin
I have some spare time today so I thought I would go over some of the scripts or snippets I use on a regular basis.
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December 29th, 2011 by Penguin
Many times I have forgotten my MySQL or Linux root password. I’m not sure why this is, maybe because no one ever uses their root accounts to access anything unless there is some kind of maintenance to be done or something. Typically users stick to sudo or alternate db accounts for day to day tasks since its safer and easier. In this post I review a couple techniques for recovering these passwords without too much pain.
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December 28th, 2011 by Penguin
I recently wanted to update the version of WordPress I was running but didn’t want to do it manually. The one click updates require some specific permissions on the back end that I thought I would discuss/document in this post.
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