Archive for April, 2008

Remote Desktop from Ubuntu

Monday, April 21st, 2008

I don’t want to search for the right commands everytime I want to connect to a windows machine with RDP when I’m on a Linux machine running Ubuntu or Kubuntu that is. The best tool I know, that really does the work is rdesktop.

Install this package:

sudo apt-get install rdesktop

And then just connect with this line:

rdesktop -u user -p password -k de-ch -g 1280x1024 server

This also shows how to use a Swiss German keyboard layout, as I have searched for it many times. The thing is, that it is not an underscore, as many may think.

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Simple Configuration for Log4j

Friday, April 18th, 2008

Ever wanted to use Log4j, but didn’t know how to configure it? Or you don’t remember how to configure it in a jiffy?

Just add the following two lines in your application, like say in the main()-method and then your’re done:


BasicConfigurator.configure(new ConsoleAppender(new PatternLayout("%d %5p [%t] %C{1} %M - %m%n")));
Logger.getRootLogger().setLevel(Level.INFO);

The first line sets logging to go to the console and it will look something like this:

2008-04-18 11:21:33,395 INFO [main] TestApp main - exists: true

If you want a different logging level, then just take Level.DEBUG, or whatever else suits you.

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MySQL new user SQL statements

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008

A quick and dirty explanation to create a new MySQL datbase with a user

Create the user:

  • CREATE USER 'hibtest'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY '*******';

    • Set some permissions:

  • GRANT USAGE ON * . * TO 'hibtest'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY '*******' WITH MAX_QUERIES_PER_HOUR 0 MAX_CONNECTIONS_PER_HOUR 0 MAX_UPDATES_PER_HOUR 0MAX_USER_CONNECTIONS 0 ;

    • Create the database:

  • CREATE DATABASE IF NOT EXISTS `hibtest` ;

    • Grant the privileges on the database:

  • GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON `hibtest` . * TO 'hibtest'@'localhost';

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