Mentors last words: The hacker manifesto
August 28, 2007 by Josh Highland
Filed under Josh's Rambling, internet, linux, software
Lurking around online this morning I ran across the hackers manifest, written by Mentor. I haven’t read this in a solid 10 years. Going over it again brought back found memories of 1993 and my x468 66mhz (my phone is faster then that now!), with a 14.4 kbps modem. If you have never read Mentors [...]
cpanel broke mysqlhotcopy 1.22 but here is a fix!
July 11, 2007 by Josh Highland
Filed under MySQL, hacks, linux, tutorials
Yesterday I logged into my server to back up my databases. I back up the mysql databases using a tool called “mysqlhotcoy”. It’s a handy perl application that copies the database files for easy restores, and it also works really quick when you run it. I ran the mysqlhotcopy command as root, and was greeted [...]
My router is running linux
May 19, 2007 by Josh Highland
Filed under hacks, hardware, linux, software
Its no secret, I like to install Linux on things that should be running Linux, like my iPod. My friend at work, Stephen, recently told me about installing Linux on a linksys router. To be honest, I looked into my router in the past, but it was years ago, and required soldering wires and things [...]