This article will show you are to disable UAC (User Access Controls) aka those pesky popup dialogs where you must enter your password in Ubuntu Linux! As many of you know, this feature was implemented in Windows Vista but went horribly wrong and is the reason it has been removed in Windows 7. Linux, which [...]
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October 20th, 2009 | Posted in Linux/Unix | 3 Comments
This article will show you how to install/enable the SSHD service on the Linux operating system (Ubuntu in this case). By default, the Ubuntu 9.04 Desktop edition does not come with SSHD installed. This means that remote users are not able to connect to the box via SSH. Luckily, it is very easy to allow [...]
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October 16th, 2009 | Posted in Linux/Unix | No Comments
As you know, the addition of a Web-based UI was one of the biggest additions in ACSLS 8.0 versus previous versions. However, when attempting to login to the UI using the acsss account as the ACSLS Admin Guide suggests, you will receive an Authentication Failure message. The solution to this problem is to create a [...]
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October 12th, 2009 | Posted in Software Help | 1 Comment
Today, Sun announced the General Availability (GA) release of the newest version of their Automated Cartridge Systems Library Software (ACSLS), version 8.0!
What is ACSLS?
ACSLS allows for centralized library management that optimizes libraries, locates and reactivates lost cartridges, exchanges cartridges between libraries and provides library tuning for the most cost-effective configuration.
ACSLS 8.0 New Features
Web-based GUI [...]
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October 6th, 2009 | Posted in News | 1 Comment
This article will show you how to open and edit .psd (Photoshop Document) files without spending hundreds of dollars on buying Adobe Photoshop!
GIMP – Free Photoshop Alternative
For those that are not familiar with GIMP, it is a 100% free, open-source photo editing software that is very powerful. Some uses are: resizing, editing, and cropping photos, [...]
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August 25th, 2009 | Posted in Free Software | 2 Comments
This article will show you how to reset the passwords for all accounts (root, admin, etc) on a Brocade Silkworm switch. This method has been successfully tested on a Silkworm 3800. But before you go through these steps, first try these passwords for the ‘root’ and ‘admin’ accounts:
fibranne
fibreanne
password
default
If none of the above passwords work, you [...]
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August 18th, 2009 | Posted in Hardware | 1 Comment
This article will show you how to call a JavaScript function from within PHP code. It is quite simple actually!
echo “<script language=javascript>myfunction();</script>”;
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August 11th, 2009 | Posted in Programming - PHP | No Comments
This article will show you how to drop a constraint, such as a foreign key constraint, on a PostgresSQL 8.x database.
Login to the PostgresSQL command-line interface
psql -U [username] [database_name]
Show a list of constraints on a particular table
\d [table_name]
To Delete (or Drop) the constraint, use the command:
ALTER TABLE [table_name] DROP CONSTRAINT [constraint_name];
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June 18th, 2009 | Posted in Databases | No Comments
Do you have a Solaris 10 (x86 or SPARC) box that you are able to connect to by IP address, but not by hostname? You might have spent hours trying to resolve this issue like me, but here is the quick and easy solution!
Assigning a hostname to a Solaris 10 machine
Login to the command-line terminal [...]
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June 4th, 2009 | Posted in Linux/Unix | No Comments
This article will show you how to restart the sshd service on Solaris 10.
To Restart the SSH Service
Login to the command-line terminal
Run the command:
svcadm restart svc:/network/ssh:default
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June 3rd, 2009 | Posted in Linux/Unix | No Comments