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The Virtual Webtop – A different type of experience

Posted on June 26, 2012 by Percy Kwong

The Term Webtop has been a long time, but has been a fledgeling technology that has failed to take off.  The reality is the technology wasn’t ready.  In my honest opinion, the original creators had the right idea, but they got the whole concept wrong. So here’s where I’ve come to think about it on…

A truly free and unblocked VPN for one year

Posted on May 30, 2012 by Percy Kwong

Every VPN provider claims that they’re truly free and not blocking ports.  (well.. maybe I’m not going to put them all in one basket).  The reality is every VPN provider I have come across has blocked access or throttles you one way or another. So I’ve actually come up with a simple solution.  Using Amazon’s…

So you don’t know your root password for mysql. Getting root control of your mysql server back without having to reset the password.

Posted on March 1, 2012 by Percy Kwong

[singlepic id=57]   This little tidbit is written for Redhat / CentOS, but with a little bit of work, the concepts and commands are easily modified for any flavor of linux. If you’re sitting on a LAMP stack and you’ve had a defection or just haven’t documented your passwords in a safe place, the easiest…

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