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[2 Mar 2009 | 3 Comments | ]

1. Getting the sources
You have 2 possibilities:
1. Download from sourceforge (Download version 1.3.3)
2. Download from source server with git. The git server is git+ssh://mob@repo.or.cz/srv/git/siplcs.git

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How-to, Linux, Newbie, Ubuntu »

[27 Feb 2009 | No Comment | ]

Ubuntu is one of a few distribution what came with root root account disable. What they are doing that? Because they are sustain a good security policy and anyway you will don’t need the root password to do administrative tasks on your desktop. You can use sudo to do that and for sudo (if is configured right) you will need just your account password. I also encourage all people to work with sudo and don’t use directly the root password.

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Debian, How-to, Linux, Newbie, Shell, Tuning »

[27 Feb 2009 | 2 Comments | ]

If you reached this page is possible to know what a core dump is, but I will explain again (in a very short version) for the new “kids” on the Linux who also is possible to reach this page … it sounds like a paradox … whatever:

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How-to, Linux, Mysql, Newbie, Recovery »

[27 Feb 2009 | No Comment | ]

It happens from time to time to forget some passwords if I’m not using them very very often. Recently I forgot the root password on a MySQL database from an external client. Recovering the password was not such a big deal, but I will explain how I do that for the newbies or anybody who need to know that. To do that you will need to stop your MySQL Database so if you are in a production environment then it will be better to schedule a downtime window. The process …

Debian, How-to, Linux, Newbie, Shell »

[10 Feb 2009 | No Comment | ]

Another great program released by opensource community is shell_sink. shell_sink is a little program what is capable to export your shell history (bash or zsh) over the internet. So you can tag your commands, aggregate them from multiple computers, annotate, search and export them in a RSS feed.

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