Monthly Archives: December 2008

Every administrator needs two accounts..

By jonmoore | Published: December 31, 2008
I assume you’ve had your hands on at least one set of administrative credentials in your life.  I’d also make the assumption that you’ve used that account as your everyday account.  You know, the one we use to check mail, surf the web, update facebook, download porn… you know, that kind of stuff. That’s a bad [...]
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Arrow keys not working in VMware?

By jonmoore | Published: December 24, 2008
Mine didn’t Luckily Google helped me find a solutation rather quickly, and using information from this site I was able to get things working again. Basically, I added xkeymap.nokeycodeMap = true to /etc/vmware/config and things started working right. Another on the forum suggested remapping the keys, but I didn’t try that.
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Quickly mirror website…

By jonmoore | Published: December 12, 2008
This is going to (hopefully) be part of a much larger article on moving web sites from one host to another.  Until then, I leave with just a simple command to download almost all of an entire webpage to a local directory… <code>wget -rnp -nd www.example.com</code> Or, if we want to download the same files, but store [...]
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