Now that I’m the nominal MySQL DBA for PSU, it became my job to jimmy up the MySQL user privileges so that the new web server could connect. I’m not sure if this is the fastest, most efficient way to do it, but it worked quickly enough:

CREATE TABLE mysql.user_copy SELECT * FROM mysql.user;
DELETE FROM mysql.user_copy [...]

Posted August 14, 2008 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Technology. Tags: copy users, duplicate users, mysql, mysql users, privileges, users. Be the first one.

Holy smokes. As Dell’s sales slump and stock remains flat, the famously unimaginative company is trying to tap into the Mob for ideas about what new shade of grey to deliver its hardware in next. And what did the Dell IdeaStorm mob say?
“Give us Linux!”
“Give Us OpenOffice.”
And how did Dell respond?
“No. No. And, [...]

Posted March 6, 2007 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Politics & Controversy, Technology. Tags: dell, Dell IdeaStorm, IdeaStorm, linux, Michael Dell, mob, OpenOffice, users. 2 Comments.

It’s been a problem we’ve struggled with here for much longer than we should have, and it took a hotshot new guy in desktop support to show us the answer. But if you know the right magic, you can add a printer to Windows XP and make it available to all users.
See, if you add [...]

Posted January 26, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Technology. Tags: add a printer, broken, network printers, printers, user permissions, users, win xp, windows, windows xp, workaround, xp, xp user permissions. 13 Comments.