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  Something you may not know about Shell

Shell is also called command line interface, it is the interface between *nix users and computer. Shell is a program which provides service to access OS kernel services. This article is to introduce some not so well known but useful and interesting knowledge about shell. Wiki shell was born almost at the same time as Unix. The first UNIX shell was written by Ken Thompson in 1971 and its name is Thompson sh. It's older than Linux kernel. The default Shell in most *nix and MacOS is bash, bash was...

   Linux, Unix,Shell,Command     2012-11-24 07:19:47

  What is Asian UI design like from a Western point of view?

From a western point view, Asian UI designs are usually quite dense and compact. People in Asia are think more in detail when they start design something. They think these designs have following characteristics Dense tightly packed text Tiny low-quality images More columns than you can count Bright clashing colours and flashing banners Overuse of outdated technologies like Flash While the Western design is much simpler. They are treating the design as a whole, so usually we will see some quite...

   UI design,Western,Asian     2014-04-28 06:52:22

  How to reset root password in MySQL 8

The user password in MySQL is stored in the user table, the password reset is actually to change the value of record in this table. To change the password in case the password is forgotten, the idea is to bypass the authentication of MySQL and get into the system and update the record password value with SQL command. In MySQL 5, one can start MySQL service with --skip-grant-tables option, this option will tell the service to skip loading the grant tables when starting, hence the root user can lo...

   MYSQL,PASSWORD,MYSQL 8     2018-12-24 21:27:13

  OpenLDAP Proxy -- Introduction

OpenLDAP is an open source project which is intended to provide some commercial-grade, fully featured applications and development tools based on the well known Light-weight Directory Access Protocol(LDAP). Hence corporations which want to manage their user and group information can freely use these tools.  OpenLDAP provides ldap servers, ldap clients and corresponding tools to work on LDAP. The LDAP server is called slapd(Stand-alone LDAP  daemon). And it would serve as the server whi...

   META,OPENLDAP,OPENLDAP PROXY,SLAPD,SLAPD.CONF,LDAP     2017-10-28 11:20:00

  Guide on recovering data in MySQL

In our daily work, there might be mistakes made which got some data or even databases deleted in MySQL. If this happens on production, it would be a nightmare. In case this happens, normally DBA would jump in to save the world. And they would try to recover the data from the backup if there is any. But if there is no backup, then the show stops. Hence database backup is necessary on production environments to avoid such awkward situation. Also normally in MySQL, binlog should be enabled as well ...

   MYSQL,DATABASE,BACKUP,BINLOG,EXAMPLE     2020-08-26 07:50:30

  Stub Mixlib::ShellOut and shell_out in Ruby unit testing

Unit testing is part of software development to ensure the tiny component of a function can work as designed. Different frameworks and tools can be used to run unit testing for different programming languages. In Ruby, one popular unit testing framework is Rspec, or Chefspec if you are writing Chef recipes. While writing Chef recipes, some low level commands(DOS commands or shell commands) need to be executed on the managed resource to perform actions or gather information. For example, lis...

   RUBY,UNIT TESTING,RSPEC,CHEFSPEC,SHELL_OUT     2016-11-11 00:14:46

  Install and setup vsftpd on AWS server

When developing websites, frequently we may need to upload source codes to the remote server. To ease of thew work, many website developers set up FTPs to upload the files. This post is a tutorial on how to install and setup vsftpd on a server. vsftpd is a very popular FTP service on Unix-like systems. Open command terminal, then install the vftpd by issuing command yum install vsftpd or sudo apt-get install vsftpd After installing the vsftpd, the config file needs to be updated based on the ope...

   FTP,vsftpd,AWS,Passive,Active     2015-02-02 02:20:27

  Problem and Solution for Installing wxPython on Ubuntu 20.04

When we try to install wxPython lib on Ubuntu system to do software GUI development, most of time we may meet some installation and lib dependency problems. For the latest Ubuntu version, the problems still happen. Below are some common problems which happened frequently and their solution: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Problem [1]: Install wxPython on Ubuntu 20.04 fail because of dependency package Gtk is not in...

   PYTHON,WXPYTHON,UBUNTU 20.04     2020-09-09 05:32:35

  Useful Bash Scripts

Many people hack together shell scripts quickly to do simple tasks, but these soon take on a life of their own. Unfortunately shell scripts are full of subtle effects which result in scripts failing in unusual ways. It's possible to write scripts which minimise these problems. In this article, I explain several techniques for writing robust bash scripts. Use set -u ...

   Linux,Shell,Bash,Command,Robust     2012-01-15 10:28:00

  Fix WampServer offline issue

WampServer is a web server on Windows which provides easy to use features for PHP developers. You can easily setup a web server by installing WampSserver without much hard to understand configurations. After installing it and with a simple configuration, you just need to double click it and start all services and your server is gonna up.  If the server starts up normally, you will see a green icon which indicates the working status at the taskbar. But if you don't see the green icon shown u...

   APACHE,PHP,WAMPSERVER     2015-09-13 01:59:38

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