At work I’ve switched from using VNC to lots of Windows Remote Desktop to get into my development boxes. The feature of VNC I missed the most was being able to resize the window to a smaller size and have it shrink the display contents so that there were no scroll bars. I was pretty [...] [...more]
Normally when I think “Hey, it would be nice if I could find out how to do this quicker” I find a way relatively soon. I’ve wanted to do this for two years and simply never got around to it because I thought it would be more difficult. Sometimes I have my monitor hooked up [...] [...more]
Very recently (The past hour an a half) I walked my mother through (via the phone) adding her new computer’s MAC address to the Wireless MAC Filter on her Linksys router. After a while, I thought it would be easiest if I could see the same screens she was. After a few minutes of research [...] [...more]
The first few days after setting up MySQL replication, I noticed that one small error would stop the replication. When this went production, we couldn’t afford to have the replication stop and not know about it. We can’t log into all our servers and check the status of things on a daily basis, we want [...] [...more]
At some point in time I need to clone many of our databases over to another MySQL server. This will require locking all users out of our severs (Apache) so that none of the databases can be updated during the clone. Because this must be preformed in a very timely manner at a very untimely [...] [...more]
Today I set up some MySQL replication for a server that I set up a few weeks ago. This was my first time doing replication and it was quite a learning experience. This was using MySQL 5.0 and CentOS 5.3, but this should work for most semi-recent versions of both. In this setup, transactions are [...] [...more]
One of my favorite programs to administer is Peachtree Accounting. </sarcasm> Recently while trying to install Peachtree Quantum 2010 on a computer, I had trouble getting it to use a central server containing the data. When selecting the mapped network drive, I would get an error: There is not a valid Peachtree Complete Accounting 2010 [...] [...more]
One of my most frequent actions in Windows Explorer is creating a new folder. The most obvious ways to do so are to right click and click ‘New Folder’ or go File -> New -> Folder. Both of these are not complicated, but could be faster. Why Microsoft couldn’t have made Ctrl+N make a new [...] [...more]
In most Firefox layouts, there is a search bar in the upper-right corner that allows you to type in a term and use GET to make a search request. At work we have a ticket system with ticket IDs and I frequently need to go to the home page, enter the ticket ID, and then [...] [...more]
In further effort to learn how to do things the most complicated way possible on Linux, I wanted to be able to access my Gmail account when using SSH to log onto my computer from anywhere. First Method: Using Lynx The first method I thought of to access my Gmail was to use Lynx, a [...] [...more]
