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PostgreSQL isn’t the most friendly when it comes to creating access to various databases or tables within those databases however with a couple easy shell scripts it becomes much easier. I previously wrote this article regarding a shell script created to provide SELECT access, which is essentially read only access, to every table located within a…
One thing that can be really helpful for Linux administrators is sending mail attachments via the Linux command line. It is fairly widely known that you can inject text files into email by piping the outputs of those files to the mail command however something that is less known is attaching files to an email…
Earlier today I was troubleshooting some resource issues on a PostgreSQL server and needed to test some various SELECT statements to see if any of them were causing problems. I also wanted to verify the amount of resources a SELECT statement made using PGAdmin versus the amount of resources the same SELECT statement used running…
If you happen to jailbreak your iPhone or iPod Touch it is likely you will end up with Cydia installed on the iDevice. Cydia is a front end to the dpkg package management system and allows you to easily install packages on your iPhone. Cydia uses some files with a PLIST file ending which cannot…
One thing that has come up numerous times for me while jailbreaking iDevices is to make sure the device can be jailbroken and unlocked. There is a simple little application from iH8sn0w called f0recast that I recommend running before you attempt to jailbreak your iPhone. Use the information below to download and run f0recast on…
The other day Martin and I were changing some things around on the computer shop’s network and we needed to modify the IP address of the credit card machine so it would operate properly on our new setup. While changing the Internet Protocol address isn’t very hard the issue we ran into was figuring out…
I have written some articles in the past related to Windows 7 Indexing though the articles have typically been about how to disable Windows Indexing or to not include specific directories, etc. Last night I was playing around with Windows 7 Indexing because of an issue I noticed with Microsoft Visio 2007 and one of…
You can install telnet on Windows 7 by following the directions in this article however you may want to instead install telnet using cygwin. The cygwin application provides you Linux type environment in Windows and you can use the cygwin installer to install lots of different Linux applications. One application that you might want to…
While working on the computer shop network I had to modify the configuration on our switch which is a Cisco Catalyst 2950. After making a bunch of changes I was testing things to make sure all was working as expected however after taking a break and logging back into the 2950 it appeared that all…