As a long time Redhat / Fedora user, starting daemons on system boot in Debian has been a mystery.  I recently took the time to search for the answer, rather […]

I recently had to build out a new MySQL node and replace an existing replication master.  Here is the basic procedure that I followed. 1. Build out the new server […]

While attempting to dump some photos from my newly acquired Sony Cybershot camera onto a Fedora 9 workstation, I had to switch to “Mass Storage” mode on the camera before […]

Something that I need to do frequently is to set some text to lowercase in vi which is currently in mixed or upper case. A quick way to do this […]