The life of an Idea
I have the greatest idea ever. It's right there on the tip of my imagination itching to come out. I grab it with my mind and start to pull it out carefully at first with the skill of a surgeon. I think to hard about the idea and it starts to malformed so I panic. I start to pull faster and the idea tears into pieces and I'm left with just part of a great idea. Sometimes thats all I really need to begin, just a piece but sometimes a piece is not enough. That is okay too, I have a lot of ideas and I can grab another one and try again.
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.