Database Deployment Scripts

Many of us as part of our daily job perform database deployments. It is imperative that organizations implement adequate change management procedures to ensure programmers do not make changes directly into the databases of the production environment without first properly justifying the value of this change and testing their change in an appropriate testing databases….

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Flexget for Movies and TV Shows

Here’s the list of instructions I used to setup flexget on my Raspberry Pi. One day I believe i will automate this. 0. Setup Raspbmc Download the appropriate install.py  for your system and execute it. Remember system here is the computer     you’re using to prepare the sd card, not the Pi itself. 1….

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Cron on Raspbmc

Here’s another little tutorial especially for people new to raspberry pi or linux in general (such as myself). Cron jobs are used to execute specific actions at pre-configured times. These actions can be executing scripts, writing data to a file, etc. (would be glad to hear of stuff you do with cron jobs in the…

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Samba on Raspbmc

This is a bit unintuitive but to access windows file shares on the Raspberry Pi (RPI) you are required to login to the box via SSH and run the below command. This is a necessary Security step.   sudo smbpasswd -a pi Then set your password  

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