Goodbye Windows
In an attempt to rescue a couple of files I fired up the “old” PC today. It’s about 3 years old now, so not what you’d call obsolete by any stretch of the imagination, and when it was new no OS would recognize the Gigabyte SATA RAID drivers. I tried Gentoo, Debian, Ubuntu, Suse, Redhat, …
Reset MySQL
Sometimes you forget the root password for your MySQL instance (because you don’t write it down, that would be silly). When this happens it’s useful to be able to disable the authentication and authorization engine. On Debian Linux I recommend a small script. /etc/init.d/mysql stop /etc/init.d/mysql start --skip-grant-tables It can also be useful to have …