Andrew Mello : 88plug

Issue : After installing Ubuntu 9.10 wireless and wired networking are either working sporadicly or not at all.  The most vanilla solution you will find.

Target : Acer Aspire 3690-2159

OS : ubuntu-9.10-desktop-i386

Hardware : Broadcom 4318 Wireless Adapter

Ensure your wireless switch is turned on in the front before reading step 1.

1.  Install Ubuntu 9.10

2.  Plug in active internet connection the Wired ethernet

3.  Run update-manager

4.  Restart after Kernel update

5.  Now with internet still plugged in, goto System>Administration>Hardware Drivers

6.  Select the Broadcom B43 wireless drive and click activate.

7.  Type in your administrator password

8.  Restart

et Voila.

After much hunting around and reading through the Plesk Administrator Guide I finally found an easy way for creating multiple e-mail accounts in batch!  This is not a MySQL hook or database related, but stems from the logic of wanting to create multiple accounts at once.

To create an e-mail account in Plesk, first login to your server via SSH.

Execute the following:

/usr/local/psa/bin/mail --create new@yourdomain.com -passwd newpassword-cp-access false

If you want to run a batch, create a script:

Lost your administrator password?  Working with a client who has lost their administrator password and need to install applications and updates? Here is a very simple workaround to resetting the password on any account in OS X.

So what do we do?

Basically start up your Mac in single user mode, deleting the local profile cache for the creation of a new user.  Upon restart, you will be prompted to setup a new administrator account.   This process of creating this account is the same as after a fresh install.  Once you have logged in under the new account, open System Preferences>Accounts and change the password of your original account.  No data is lost, and nothing is deleted.  Logout/Login with your new password and then delete the temporary admin account.

Presto – Password recovered.

1.  Reboot in Single User Mode – hold Apple Key(command)-S after you hear the chime

2.  Run the following:

**Note**
In terms of security, this is why restriction of physical access to a machine is critical.  Passwords are not safe, and are not to be conceived as “safe”.  Strong passwords are irrelevant if you do not limit physical access to machines.  Play safe.