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88plug re-launches the Antiques Diva

admin — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 16:13:55 +0000

88plug is proud to announce the release of the Antiques Diva.

“The Antiques Diva® is the nom de plume for Toma Clark Haines, an American expat living in Europe whose life story has been liberally sprinkled with Cinderella dust. As a child growing up in Oklahoma, Toma dreamed of global adventures. While other kids drew houses with picket fences, Toma drew gondolas with men in striped shirts. After studying abroad in London in university, Toma returned home on the range to marry her college sweetheart. After saying “I do,” she immediately began whispering in his ear words of far-away places and before long her dream became his. When a serendipitous opportunity arose, offering them a chance to live and work in Europe, they moved to Paris for 5 years and then Amsterdam for 4. Along with her husband and well-traveled pet Catpuccino, Toma currently resides in Berlin nearby Brandenberg Gate and the Reichstag. ”

See the combined Store and Blog here:

www.antiquesdiva.com

Strip Tables HTML with Regular Expression

admin — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 11:24:21 +0000

A simple regular expression will help you. I found this particulary useful when migrating client sites.

1	</?(table\|tr\|tbody\|td\|th)(\s?[^>]*)>

HTML 5 Video Converter

admin — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 16:41:15 +0000

The best free and open source available for all you HTML 5 video needs(which include multiple format conversions) can easily be done with Miro Video Converter. There is little additional information available from the site, but this tool does exactly what the box says:

Convert to:
Theora
WebM
MP4 Video
MP3 (Audio Only)

Get it Here

Although the application is 32 bit, you can run multiple instances to max out your CPU. Also included are profiles for Android and Apple devices as well.

MySQL error /usr/libexec/mysqld: unknown option ‘–skip-bdb’

admin — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 10:54:55 +0000

MySQL version 5.1.47 failing to start after upgrade? Here is the brief:

Problem: tail -f /var/log/mysqld.log

1	/usr/libexec/mysqld: unknown option '--skip-bdb'

After poking around for a quick solution, nobody seemed to release that the bdb dependncy is no longer used in /etc/my.cnf configuration file.

Old my.cnf:

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[mysqld]
set-variable=local-infile=0
query-cache-type = 1
query-cache-size = 6M

datadir=/var/lib/mysql
#socket=/usr/libexec/mysqld
socket=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock
user=mysql
# Default to using old password format for compatibility with mysql 3.x
# clients (those using the mysqlclient10 compatibility package).
old_passwords=1

skip-bdb

set-variable = innodb_buffer_pool_size=2M
set-variable = innodb_additional_mem_pool_size=500K
set-variable = innodb_log_buffer_size=500K
set-variable = innodb_thread_concurrency=2
[mysqld_safe]
log-error=/var/log/mysqld.log
pid-file=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid
skip-bdb

set-variable = innodb_buffer_pool_size=2M
set-variable = innodb_additional_mem_pool_size=500K
set-variable = innodb_log_buffer_size=500K
set-variable = innodb_thread_concurrency=2

New:

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[mysqld]
set-variable=local-infile=0
query-cache-type = 1
query-cache-size = 6M

datadir=/var/lib/mysql
#socket=/usr/libexec/mysqld
socket=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock
user=mysql
# Default to using old password format for compatibility with mysql 3.x
# clients (those using the mysqlclient10 compatibility package).
old_passwords=1

#skip-bdb

set-variable = innodb_buffer_pool_size=2M
set-variable = innodb_additional_mem_pool_size=500K
set-variable = innodb_log_buffer_size=500K
set-variable = innodb_thread_concurrency=2
[mysqld_safe]
log-error=/var/log/mysqld.log
pid-file=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid
#skip-bdb

set-variable = innodb_buffer_pool_size=2M
set-variable = innodb_additional_mem_pool_size=500K
set-variable = innodb_log_buffer_size=500K
set-variable = innodb_thread_concurrency=2

Settings Wireless Region Linux – Channel 13 Backtrack 4

admin — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 11:50:48 +0000

One of the most recent problems I stumbled upon while running Backtrack, or any other linux distro for that matter is setting the region on a wireless card. The typical procedure is :

1	iwconfig wlan0 channel 13

And commonly you will get

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error for wireless regquest ''set frequency''
(8b04)
set failed on device wlan0 ; invalid arugment

There is an easy fix for this that will allow you to change the region mode your wireless adapter is in.

1	iw reg set FR

1	iw reg set US

Channel	Center Frequency	Frequency Spread
1	2412 MHz	2399.5 MHz – 2424.5 MHz
2	2417 MHz	2404.5 MHz – 2429.5 MHz
3	2422 MHz	2409.5 MHz – 2434.5 MHz
4	2427 MHz	2414.5 MHz – 2439.5 MHz
5	2432 MHz	2419.5 MHz – 2444.5 MHz
6	2437 MHz	2424.5 MHz – 2449.5 MHz
7	2442 MHz	2429.5 MHz – 2454.5 MHz
8	2447 MHz	2434.5 MHz – 2459.5 MHz
9	2452 MHz	2439.5 MHz – 2464.5 MHz
10	2457 MHz	2444.5 MHz – 2469.5 MHz
11	2462 MHz	2449.5 MHz – 2474.5 MHz
12	2467 MHz	2454.5 MHz – 2479.5 MHz
13	2472 MHz	2459.5 MHz – 2484.5 MHz

Acer Aspire 3690 Broadcom Wireless 43xx Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic

admin — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 21:51:13 +0000

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.

Reset “lost” Administrator Password Mac OS X

admin — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:53:24 +0000

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:

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rm /var/db/.AppleSetupDone
shutdown -h now

**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.

Grub2 – A beginners guide

admin — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:22:45 +0000

Take a look at this post over at Ubuntu forums for a very comprehensive, yet easy to understand guide to Grub2. Noteworthy mentions are as follows:

“At first boot, there will not be much difference in what the user sees on the boot menu. The one exception is a clean install of Ubuntu 9.10 with no other installed operating system. In this case, GRUB 2 will boot directly to the login prompt or Desktop without displaying a menu. Other major differences:

No ”/boot/grub/menu.lst”. It has been replaced by ”/boot/grub/grub.cfg”.
Hold down SHIFT to display the hidden menu during boot (formerly ESC is GRUB legacy).
There is no “find /boot/grub/stage1″ at the grub prompt. Stage 1.5 has also been eliminated.
The main menu file, ”/boot/grub/grub.cfg” is not meant to be edited, even by ‘root’.
”grub.cfg” is overwritten anytime there is a update, a kernel is added/removed or the user runs `update-grub` *
The user can use a custom file, ”/etc/grub.d/40_custom”, in which the user can place his own entries. This file will ”not” be overwritten.
The primary configuration file for changing menu display settings is ”/etc/default/grub”.
There are multiple files for configuring the the menu – ”/etc/default/grub” mentioned above, and all the files in ”/etc/grub.d/” folder.
Other operating systems, such as Windows, should automatically be recognized and added to the menu.
No changes made in the configuration files will take effect until the `update-grub` command is also run.”

Big thanks to our author : http://ubuntuforums.org/member.php?u=223945

Original Post : http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1195275

Ubuntu Karmic 9.10 and Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3P – Black screen

admin — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:04:46 +0000

After any install of Karmic, 9.10 the new GRUB 2 bootloader will not start the generic kernel. On first reboot after a fresh install, when you select the standard boot image you are left with a black screen, and possibly a blinking cursor in the upper left hand corner. To boot anything functional I was forced to start in rescue mode, resume normal boot, login as my user, then run startx to start GNOME. What a disaster! Simple fix? You got it!

It’s time to edit Grub2, a daunty little beast that is not to be mistaken for Grub.

1. Open the grub config

1	sudo gedit /etc/default/grub

2. A note : grub.cfg cannot be modified without changing the file permissions first. Do not modify /boot/grub/grub.cfg Simply put, every time you run update-grub this file is re-generated. Changes here can be dangerous.

3. Find the following, or similar depending on your kernel

1	linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-14-generic root=UUID=94db3b6d-1959-49d3-8565-6e3e28acdc64 ro quiet splash

4. Remove “quiet splash”

1	linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-14-generic root=UUID=94db3b6d-1959-49d3-8565-6e3e28acdc64 ro

5. Run

1	sudo update-grub

6. Reboot

Cannot connect to MySQL: Client does not support authentication protocol requested by server

admin — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:21:23 +0000

I ran into a problem on a client site running cPanel. One our our web apps was spitting out the following error:

1 2	Script Error Cannot connect to MySQL: Client does not support authentication protocol requested by server; consider upgrading MySQL client

A quick Google search returned the fix : http://geekswithblogs.net/TimH/archive/2005/10/31/58591.aspx

From inside MYSQL, Run the following on the affected DB:

1	SET PASSWORD FOR user@localhost = OLD_PASSWORD('replacemepasswd');