Recent Posts Tagged With 'operating systems'

• Building ChromiumOS (The Google OS)

  Posted on Wednesday November 25th, 2009 at 11:28 in google, tutorials, software engineering, operating systems

  I’ve been watching all of the hype about downloading and running the latest Google creation, ChromiumOS this week so yesterday I decided to take a stab at it myself. I did not however want to simply grab a VMWare image and run it. I’m a ...

• Revolution OS - The Linux Story

  Posted on Monday June 2nd, 2008 at 09:40 in operating systems

  Revolution OS is a 2001 documentary which traces the history of GNU, Linux, and the open source and free software movements. It features several interviews with prominent hackers and entrepreneurs (and hackers-cum-entrepreneurs), including Richard St...

• How Can I Recover My Lost MySQL root Password?

  Posted on Tuesday April 1st, 2008 at 10:13 in web development, tutorials, database, operating systems

  Many people use the MySQL open source relational database server. Mostly for websites, but I’ve also seen it used elsewhere. One problem that I recently ran into with my local development installation is… “what was my root password ...

• How Can I Tell If My Bash Script Is Already Running? - Part 2

  Posted on Tuesday March 18th, 2008 at 06:00 in tutorials, operating systems

  In my first posting on this topic I outlined a manual method by which you could code Bash scripts to check to see whether or not an instance of the script was already running. This is very useful in scripts that might cause adverse affects if more th...