Category Archives: Technology
How to open an elevated Command Prompt window
This is just a little step-by-step guide for how you can open up an open an elevated Command Prompt under Windows 7 (and Windows Vista I think). That is, a Command Prompt with Administrator privileges which allows you to do … Continue reading
How to enable verbose booting in Mac OS X
I’m a curious guy, so I wanted to see if there was anything interesting happening behind the Apple logo when the Mac I use at work boots up. Turned out it was quite simple to enable and disable this feature. … Continue reading
Disappearing color labels in Mac OS X
Had a tiny fight with Mac OS X the other day, like I often do. This time it was color labels. You probably know (if you have used Mac OS X at all) that you can color label your files. … Continue reading
How to reset the MySql root account
I just managed to mess up the MySQL root account. Not a smart idea. After some MySQL manual reading and some serious Google-Fu, I figured out how to fix it. Stop the mysql server Add the following to the my.cnf … Continue reading
Helpful Unix and Mac commands
I am for the most part a Windows user. I was kind of moving towards Linux, Ubuntu in particular, but that ship pretty much sailed when I got my hands on Windows 7. Awesome, awesome operating system. But, I still … Continue reading
