Open Source Solutions

So, I have convinced a friend to renounce Windows and try Linux. I recommend  Ubuntu to beginners because of the http://ubuntuforums.org and I think it have the best support; It is also easy for beginners. It took a while, but finally he said ok, let’s give it a try. Most of the thinks he used on windows had linux ports or substitutes, but what he was really not gone live was Guitar Pro. So I needed to find a work around which I had found on the ubuntu forums.

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Maybe you got it, maybe not, but I had to deal with this problem a lot. Always I founded it boring like hell, but you had to do it.

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Found this great website: tool for building PHP Date() code, making it quick and easy to insert formatting codes and review the results.

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This is a simple select element menu with all mouths build from the date function. It also highlights  the current month. [Read the rest of this entry...]

I’ve come across this blog recently and I found this code. I found it useful at work
http://pravin.insanitybegins.com/posts/anonymous-ftp-scanner [Read the rest of this entry...]

This is the simple solution to the fancy ©2008 -2011 By my company copyright footer information.
What this does is update the year information every year
Below is the code to generate this: [Read the rest of this entry...]

So, a few days ago I ended up with a directory structure with no permissions at all. I discovered that I have copied the lampp structure on a different filesystem (ntfs) and ended loosing all the permissions. Now To get the lampp it’s easy, but i needed the mysql instance from the old lampp because of innodb tables in mysql. Facing this problem I thought it’s time for some synchronization, so the first thing that comes in my mind is rsync, but had no success, and I ended using my favorite tool: BASH.

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I came across this problem when I needed to reinstall my laptop and find myself without an installation media (no empty CDs or DVDs). So I was stuck with some SD cards and USB sticks. After trying to install from SD card I realize that my laptop does not have a boot option from there, so I focused on the USB stick.

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This is the link that informs you of the exploit and how to threat it
http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/Hole-in-Linux-kernel-provides-root-rights-1081317.html

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This post was actually written by Andreea Benini, here (http://www.linux.com/community/blogs/access-vmware-server-2-remote-virtual-machine-without-web-interface.html). I will copy/paste the post here. [Read the rest of this entry...]