9 Apr 12

Create a bootable USB memory stick with unetbootin (tuxboot)

Create a bootable USB memory stick with unetbootin (tuxboot)

At work we use headless PC appliances such as the Lanner 7535 box for building our product. Since the Lanner appliance doesn´t have a CD /DVD drive and booting unetbootin net boot usb memory stick iso utilfrom the network isn´t always an option, I need to be able to boot from a USB memory stick to load a new OS or our software package.

After setting out looking for a utility to accomplish this task I came across TUXBOOT, a simple utility who´s only function is to do just that – burn an ISO to a USB memory stick. Tuxboot worked great the first time I tried it – but upon trying to re-burn my memory stick with a new image I found that tuxboot was crashing about 2/3´s of the way through the burning process.

After doing a little more searching I came upon another utility with the same functionality – unetbootin. Upon launching unetbootin for the first time, it was like deja vu.

The interface was exactly the same as tuxboot – I haven´t taken the time to research the relation between these two products, but suffice to say that once I started using unetbootin all of the problems I was having previously, have now gone away. As such, I´m sticking with unetbootin.

Here´s a great write up on how to use the utility…

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28 Mar 12

Why Does My HP Laptop Continue To Shutdown With Sleep Mode Disabled?

Why Does My HP Laptop Continue To Shutdown With Sleep Mode Disabled?Sleeping Windows 7 Laptop Hibernate Lid Closed Snores Man Config Change Update

 

I recently inherited a hand-me-down laptop from a terminated employee at work. Since the company is a start-up and runs fairly lean and mean – getting any new hardware is rare.

I decided that this would be a good machine to use for testing application problems  while supporting my Windows 7 end-users, but I could also run Oracle’s Virtual Box and have a couple of Ubuntu Linux Servers run from it as well.

Getting all the software installed was easy enough, but each night when I’d go home and try to connect to my new work system back at the office, I’d find that I was unable to connect to it.

Upon returning to the office each morning, I’d find the machine powered off. I was confused because the first thing I had done was to go into the Windows Control Panel and adjust the power settings such that the machine would never enter sleep mode. Yet, night after night the machine would power down.

I thought maybe some mischievous co-worker was sneaking into my cube and turning off my machine…. but after I dug a bit deeper, I learned that Windows 7 has some very granular power settings and that even if you disable sleep mode at the highest level – a setting as simple as “power down when lid is shut” can undo the best laid plans.

Here’s a write-up I found about how to solve this annoying problem:

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27 Mar 12

How to Force Microsoft Internet Explorer to Reload Pages

How to Force Internet Explorer to Reload Pages

Or as otherwise known as do what l I tell you to do, not what you *think* I want you to do.browser frustration configuration microsoft internet explorer logo settings reload page

Microsoft seems to have this idea that they know best, how your computer should operate and any command given by the end-user should just be ignored.

Have you ever tried shutting down a Windows PC only to have to wait for minutes, hours or even days while the damn thing *thinks* about shutting down? When I tell you to shut down – do it, and do it NOW. In the unix world we call that init 0 or shutdown NOW.

That´s why I love Linux / Unix so much – a simple command and BAM! the operating system is  well on it´s way to shutting down, no pussy footing around.

Internet Explorer seems to have similar ¨issues¨ if I might call them that. Often times if a page has problems reloading Microsoft will *help* you by just reloading the page that´s in the cache. Um, no thanks – if thereś an error then just give me the damn error please and stop sugar coating everything.

Well, luckily there is a fix for this Internet Explorer annoyance…

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15 Mar 12

How to Reset / Recover MySQL Admin Password

How to Reset / Recover MySQL Admin Password

 

You can recover MySQL database server password with following five easy steps.mysql my sql dolphin database opensource system linux lamp

Step # 1: Stop the MySQL server process.

Step # 2: Start the MySQL (mysqld) server/daemon process with the –skip-grant-tables option so that it will not prompt for password.

Step # 3: Connect to mysql server as the root user.

Step # 4: Setup new mysql root account password i.e. reset mysql password.

Step # 5: Exit and restart the MySQL server.

Here are commands you need to type for each step (login as the root user):

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8 Mar 12

Apache: Changing the Default Localhost Folder

Apache: Changing the Default Localhost Folder

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Start / Stop / Restart Apache:

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 start   #start apache
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 stop   #stop apache
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart   #restart apache


Changing the default localhost folder


 


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Reset Sugar CRM Passwords

			

			

				
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login to your Sugar / MySQL server


next you’ll need to login to mysql: mysql -u <username here> -p


#mysql -u admin -p

it will prompt for pasword enter your mysql password here.

then you will have the mysql prompt:

mysql>


Take a look at all of the databases:

mysql> show databases;


mysql>use <SugarDatabase>


In my case it’s: “sugarcrm”


mysql> use sugarcrm;


You’ll get the following message to let you know you’ve changed databases:


mysql>Database changed


Next take a look at the tables within the database – you should have a “users” table:


mysql>show tables;


You can now change any Sugar CRM account password with the following command:


 


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