Since I’ve added the banner to the sidebar of my blog, I wanted to re-post information on supporting one of the best projects in the Free/Open Source Software ecosystem: Gnome.
Help support the GNOME Foundation’s goal to provide a free desktop for all users – become a Friend of GNOME. Your donation will ensure that GNOME continues to be a free and open source desktop by providing resources to developers, software and education for end users, and promotion for GNOME worldwide.
The GNOME desktop is free and accessible software available in many languages. GNOME is the software of choice for programs like One Laptop Per Child, governments, and mobile phone applications.
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I recently updated my Fedora 12 workstation at work and was greeted with a black screen at reboot. Actually, the screen shut off almost immediately. The console was unresponsive, so I couldn’t even log in locally by switching to a local console. (You know you are in trouble when Ctrl-Alt-F2 doesn’t work.)
From my laptop I SSH’d in and discovered that the nvidia driver had oops’d and killed X11 very dead. Searching the forums led me to believe my problem was from the most recent kernel update and selecting the previous kernel from the grub screen proved to boot normally.
This is the first occasion where I’ve ever needed to blacklist an item from yum. The process is pretty simple, so I’m jotting it down here for future reference.
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I just wanted to make a quick pointer to an article which has saved me a bit of hair pulling. I’ve become interested in pretending to blog again, and I dusted off my WordPress installation. So far I’ve been lucky because no one reads this blog, not even the bots… but I wanted some extra security.
While I was updating the WordPress table names I wound up locking myself out of the system. This manifests itself as the following error when you log in:
You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page.
Luckily, the exact fix is contained here:
http://www.routeofqueue.com
Namely, there are some database table names buried in a few settings within the database. Thus it takes more than a wp-config file update to switch table names!
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