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Drupal is software that helps you create information on websites. This falls into a category of software called Content Management Systems (CMS). In reality, it is more of a "framework" to provide specific functionality related to the "pages" you create and manage, to include a consistent look and feel (a theme) as well as additional tools to control and manage the content, or information.

 After adding a network card (NIC or Network Interface Card) to an OpenSuSE system, and configuring the device with YaST, I could not get it to activate.  After a reboot it also didn’t show up as an active interface.

On a recent upgrade from Drupal (information at http://www.drupal.org) v4.6.x to v5.1, I discovered that many of my "protected" pages were again publicly accessible.  Since I'd already done the conversion on my production drupal instance, this was of some concern to me, but due to time constraints there was little I could do about it.  Since my time was at a premium, I wasn't able to look at it until Thursday night (July 26th), after doing the conversion the prior weekend.  That's when I discovered that the fix was a

Everywhere you turn, IT professionals are talking about virtualization as the next big wave in technology. People banter around the terms Virtualization, Virtual PC, VMware, and others. But while IT people debate virtualizing computers, many people don't understand the concept, or why it's even needed.

There are a variety of ways to change your MySQL password.  One of the easiest is from the command line.  You can use a command like:

 mysqladmin -u root password yourrootsqlpassword

to change your password.  The above command changes the password of the acount root to yourrootsqlpassword.

I had to install my compiler and make with the commands:

# apt-get install gcc
# apt-get install make

I had to install a current kernel with the command:

# apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r)

This shell script is used to show me how much space a particular directory takes up. The idea came to me while I was looking at filelight at one point because I was wondering hot much space some directories are taking on one of my systems. I could see the space used by a directory (and all it's subdirectories), but I wanted a way to see that space usage from the command line as well. Maybe someone had already written it, but this was my first pass at it back in 2005.

It’s really not tough, but I always seem to forget how to install a package to Freesco. Just use the following command from the freesco command line (remember you must be root to do this)

pkg -i pathname

Pathname would be the location of the package, usually in http: format.

For instance, the installation of the Dinjite’s Utils package for 0.3.x would be:

Occasionally, I have a need to look up a particular ASCII code when I'm writing writing some software. This is posted as a reference for me, so I can easily find the list of printable ASCII characters.

Sometimes you want to be able to list the active users, and you can use the system stored procedures of sp_who and sp_who2 to do that. However, I've found that it's inconvenient for a couple of reasons. 1. If you run it from a command line, it scrolls over the 80 column limit you usually have in a terminal session (sometimes I run this using a command like osql -E -S sql -Q 'exec master..usp_ListUsers'). While this also goes over the 80 column limit, it goes over 2 lines, so it's more readable to me. 2.