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I just noticed that when you use the mysql 5 client from MacPorts (installed as /opt/local/bin/mysql5) to connect to a mysql5 server running on localhost that was installed via the package at dev.mysql.com, an error is generated: ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can’t connect to local MySQL server through socket ‘/opt/local/var/run/mysql5/mysqld.sock’ (2) This is because the installation …
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I was looking for a way to configure iLo (itegrated lights out) on the new Xserve. Funny thing is after googe and yahoo and searching like crazy all over the place, the one site I should have checked first had the answers 1 few clicks away. I found this doc on apple’s site in the …
What follows is a rant/review of Yellow Dog Linux 5.0.2. It’s the second part of the “Golden Apple Project” article series, which tells the tale of my quest to transform a formerly unused Apple PowerMac G4 (450Mhz, AGP Video) into something more useful than an unused OS 9 machine. After a somewhat discouraging attempt at …
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The other day I acquired a hardly used PowerMac G4 from someone who was going to throw it out. Imagine that? It’s got a 450Mhz PPC CPU, 256MB of RAM, a 20GB hard drive, and AGP video. Certainly this nice little machine can be used for something… But what? Though I could probably get away …
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I forgot to mention that I wrote a review for a book about designing BSD rootkits. You can find the review over at Daemon News