This is not a Microsoft bashing blog, so when the folks from Redmond put out something good we are all over it. If you haven’t had a chance to use Microsoft SharedView, you might want to try it out. It is a free application but it is still in beta. Recently I have been working […]

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Set a root password if none exists
$ mysqladmin -u root password <new_password>

Login to MySQL
$ mysql -u root -p
Enter password:
Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MySQL connection id is 16 to server version: 5.0.22-Debian_0ubuntu6.06-log
Type ‘help;’ or ‘\h’ for help. Type ‘\c’ to clear the buffer.
mysql> CREATE DATABASE databasename;
Query OK, […]

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Just a tip to all you aspiring web designers, please use lower case when creating web pages. I just had to clean up a bunch of HTML with a mix of UPPER and lower case tag names and it was not fun. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) had to say on the matter:
Element […]

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Configuration
sudo apt-get install obexftp obexpushd gnome-bluetooth bluez-utils
sudo pico /etc/bluetooth/hcid.conf
change passkey from the default “1234″ to your own passkey
sudo pico /etc/rc.local
Add the following on the line before “exit 0″
hciconfig hci0 inqmode 0
Restart the system
Sending Files from an Ubuntu PC to Another Device
The easiest way to send files from your PC to a Bluetooth device is to […]

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Connecting to an Oracle 8 database using PHP4 is no simple task. Before calling me a moron for not using the most recent versions of these applications, you should know that I was attempting to create a mock production environment so I could deploy this solution on an existing server. Using a virtual machine to […]

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