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A simple overview of how to use one of the most powerful text editors; vi

Posted on March 25, 2012 by Percy Kwong

Vi is a text editor that is included by default in every linux, unix, and *bsd installation.  Every person who’s serious about using this should learn the basics of it.  Very powerful, but a bit hard to learn, it’s something that everybody who manages a linux, unix, *bsd box should learn to use at least…

centos 5 squirrelmail change sqlpass plugin

Posted on March 12, 2012 by Percy Kwong

If you’ve had issues with getting the change_sqlpass plugin to work on squirrelmail, there are definitely quite a few mashinations of the system on how to get it to work on Centos 5.x So here’s how I got it to work.  Please keep in mind that the following matters. Your SQL Mail Table called users…

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…

Updating PHP to on Centos 5.x

Posted on November 23, 2011 by Percy Kwong

Updating PHP on Centos 5 can be confusing with all of the different tutorials out there, but here’s one that absolutely works.

FUSE Module not Found Error

Posted on October 27, 2009 by Percy Kwong

If you’re trying to install fuse and getting that dreaded “Module Not Found” error even after a modprobe fuse, just do the following: yum install dkms fuse-dkms service fuse start ok.. It works now.  Brought to you by someone with a brain.

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