Ubuntu 11.04 on my Acer TimelineX 1830T-1327

After yet another flawless Ubuntu upgrade, I  am finally seeing why there is a big hype regarding Unity. Prior to this upgrade I was hesitant in upgrading to Ubuntu 11.04 because of the negative reviews Unity was getting from different podcasts, however after a full day after the upgrade and a few hours using Unity, […]

Installing MySQL GUI Tools in Ubuntu 10.10

Download Generic x86 tarball from http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/gui-tools/5.0.html mv mysql-gui-tools-5.0 /usr/local/ Create symlinks to PATH location: ln -s /usr/local/mysql-gui-tools-5.0/mysql-query-browser-bin /usr/local/bin/mysql-query-browser-bin ln -s /usr/local/mysql-gui-tools-5.0/mysql-query-browser /usr/local/bin/mysql-query-browser ln -s /usr/local/mysql-gui-tools-5.0/mysql-administrator /usr/local/bin/mysql-administrator ln -s /usr/local/mysql-gui-tools-5.0/mysql-administrator-bin /usr/local/bin/mysql-administrator-bin Create symlinks to /usr/local/share ln -s /usr/local/mysql-gui-tools-5.0/locale /usr/local/share/locale ln -s /usr/local/mysql-gui-tools-5.0/mysql-gui /usr/local/share/mysql-gui Almost done.. At this point mysql-administrator should be fully working. However with mysql-quer-browser, […]

Ruby cli_mailer

After much nights of Ruby programming and many revisions, I finally manage to have an beta release of Ruby cli_mailer. I originally planned on writing a full mail (Unix command line email client) like program in Ruby. Though I was able to have an almost identical console interface to mail’s reading, viewing, and deleting emails, […]

Acer TimelineX 1830T-1327

Unfortunately the fan noise on the MSI Wind u100 netbook was unbearable, thus I was force to sell my netbook. I love my MacBook Pro, but even at 13 inches, I at thought at times that it was to bulky to carry around on my man purse. I was seriously looking on purchasing an 11 […]

Phusion Passenger = good stuff

While mod_ruby is perfect to serve dynamic Ruby web pages, the project looks like its long dead; given that it hasn’t been updated for over 4 years now. Now the de facto way to deploy Ruby on Rails applications is Phusion Passenger. Compared to mod_ruby, configuring the Phusion Passenger (mod_rails) Apache module is ridiculously easy […]

Encrypting files in Linux with mcrypt

By default Linux systems do not ship with the mcrypt utility. At least not CentOS or Ubuntu that is. In Ubuntu installing mycrypt is just a matter of running the following command: apt-get install mcrypt In CentOS 5.5 mycrypt is not included in the distribution’s repositories because when I ran yum install mcrypt it installed […]

Speed up shell scripting

Once again the book Practical Ruby for System Administration by Ben Hamou taught me some pretty clever Ruby sysadmin scripting tricks. One of the scripts that the author used was to automatically populate the path to the Ruby interpreter, update the permissions to 755, and open the script in vi, all during the same process. […]