Rogue Shakespeare Stout
Picked this one out while I waited in line at Trader Joe’s. I could have gone without it. Rogue is a good brew house but I never seem to enjoy their beer as much as other breweries. It’s an aquired taste and I seem to be at the other end of the palette.
Open Directory and .htpasswd
Fascinating! I worked on a project* once that involved a complete rewrite of the command-line utility passwd in order to keep a number of system services including a .htpasswd file in sync with users account passwords. Mac OS X Hints noted this is made simple with Mac OS X Leopard (10.5) and Open Directory.
Virtualized Xserver
Media Temple labs has a private beta for what it’s calling Xserve-Virtual . This system has been added quickly added to my MT wish list along with the Django GridContainer which, perhaps I wont need if I move over to a full-on-mirror of my development environment using a virtual OS X Server.
A virtual Mac OS X Leopard Server running on a fully loaded cluster of Xserves virtualized using Parallels Server . I want one, … or three, … yeah that should be enough …. maybe four, for symmetry.
Fedora 9 root password mismatch resolution
Having started my journey down the command-line with Fedora 3, I was excited to try out Fedora 9. The install completed with ease (the first time around) but once I logged onto the system and attempted to configure some of the system settings, my root password didn’t work.
Why? CAPS LOCK bit was set by default during the install process making a different root password.