If you’re like me, you love the granular permissions capabilities of MySQL but hate the work that goes into managing them…
Unfortunately, there doesn’t seem to be anything like groups in MySQL and according to plans won’t be added officially until MySQL 7.0 (WL#988)…
While searching around, I found Securich…

Just saw this on Slashdot. Basically the idea is that you give them a certain amount of money each month which you then use to “flatter” Internet content that you like…
While it seems like a good idea, and the domain name it great, I’m not sure there is any market for more “buttons”. They…

I just ran into an interesting site goosh.org. Goosh = GOOgle SHell – basically the guy has built a CLI or shell interface to google services….

You can make the executable search PATH variable persistent in several ways:

1. On the system level you can …
2. On a per user level, or for the user root, you can …

You could get this message for not having the right magic cookie on the client side, or for not having a cookie at all as was apparently my case.

In my case, the developers are being authenticated against Active Directory via Samba/Winbind. Their home directories are non-existent until the first time they login via SSH….