Posts by Mostafaberg

Fixing the “unix:///var/mysql/mysql.sock” not found error on MAMP

Posted by Berg on Aug 17, 2011 in News | 7 comments

I’ve recently been working on a CakePHP project on my Mac, I’ve noticed that when
I tried Baking the project, This error came out:

Reversing the VFD

Posted by Berg on Jul 6, 2011 in News | 6 comments

Heya,

I had a broken Philips DVD player lying around for sometime, so I decided I’ll take out the LCD panel inside it and play a little.

First of all, I discovered that it was a VFD not a LCD, but programmatically that wasn’t a huge difference !.

Enabling mod_rewrite on apache2

Posted by Berg on Apr 9, 2011 in News | 0 comments

If you’re trying to enable mod_rewrite for apache2 on your ubuntu server (or any other distrib) and nothing works, this little writeup might save you a few hours of frustration !

Changing iPhone’s default password

Posted by Berg on Apr 5, 2011 in howto, News, tutorials | 2 comments

This is a little post to show you how to reset your default root password after jailbreaking your iPhone/iTouch/iPad !

(This works for any iOS jailbroken device on any iOS version)

There are two ways to do this, first way is to do it via SSH, the second way is via mobile terminal.app

1st method:

1. You need to have OpenSSH installed on your device, to do this, just install the package “openssh” from Cydia

Newbie’s guide to Rackspace (Server Creation)

Posted by Berg on Nov 30, 2010 in Cloud, howto, News, rackspace, Server, tutorials | 8 comments

Hello nerds,

I’m writing this quickie as a tutorial on how to create your first server on rackspace, However, I won’t discuss how to set it up, just the creation part, I’ll show you how to interact and setup the server in another article.

So let’s start with the requirements