My name is Rich Jerrido and I am the person behind www.outsidaz.org I am a geek hailing from the city of brotherly love. I started this blog a couple of years back as a dumping place for a lot of working knowledge of mine that I could have available online regardless of where I was. Over time it has evolved into being a full-fledged blog, complete with RSS feeds, comments, and pictures.When I am not hacking on computers for profit, I hack on them for fun.Read more about me »
After my recent addition of a Windows Home Server to my home network, I decided that the server sprawl was going to come to an end. I cannibalized my desktop, an AMD Athlon X2 3800, to become the VMWare host. After bumping its RAM to 4GB, and adding 2 10,000 RPM drives in a RAID-1 [...]
In the field, it may become necessary to reset the root password on a Linux system. There are many ways to reset an unknown root password, to include LiveCDs and booting into single user mode. This document assumes the following The root password is unknown An account with sufficient permissions to reset the root password [...]
