The title lays out the scenario: we had an iMac running Mac OS X 10.6.2, connected to the internet via a DSL modem. We wanted to create a wifi network so we could get a Mac laptop, an Asus Eee PC 901 running Ubuntu GNU/Linux 9.10 (Ubuntu Netbook Remix, Karmic Koala), and a Roku Netflix player all on the net. Turns out you can use the iMac itself to create a wifi network. No additional equipment is required, just some tricky configuration.
(more…)
Archive for December, 2009
Configuring Internet Sharing between an iMac running Snow Leopard, a Mac laptop, an Ubuntu netbook, and a Roku
Thursday, December 24th, 2009Upgrading MySql from 4 to 5 on 1and1
Monday, December 21st, 2009WordPress 2.9 is out today, and we’re trying to upgrade all our blogs to it.
These sites were created with MySql 4 databases, and the latest WordPress requires MySql 5. How to upgrade?
So far, we’ve tried dumping/exporting the old database and importing to a new MySql 5 database, but certain characters like curly quotes and Greek letters are broken.
Any ideas on dealing with these character encoding issues?