Recently I’ve had to recover a Google Apps admin account for someone I did a project for … easy enough. Right? No. Not really if you bought your domain name through GoDaddy. Although GoDaddy makes it easy to set up Google Apps when setting up a new domain name, GoDaddy and Google have conspired to making an admin account reset an annoyance. GoDaddy doesn’t seem to have any documentation that allows you to do this. Google’s own documentation tells us that resetting the admin account is not available to GoDaddy and eNom customers but doesn’t tell us how to go about resetting it if you are a customer. Google doesn’t seem to provide a password reset link if you are a GoDaddy customer.
However! … Google does provide a way to reset the Google Apps administrator password … the same way you would reset any other administrator password if you weren’t a GoDaddy customer. It’s rather simple, go to:
This process is normally trivial and would have been automatic in Ubuntu, but OpenSUSE seems to make it a little harder … but not too hard. This should work with every other laptop that uses the Broadcom BCM431* chipset too, but I can’t be sure.
First off, you will need to add community package called Packman. So fire up the YaST Control Center (Computer -> YaST -> Software Repositories).
Now add the Packman community repository (click on Add button on the lower left). Check the Community Repositories radio button. In the new screen, scroll down and check the Packman repository.
You will be prompted to import a key. Choose Import.
With the repository added, we now need to install the driver (Computer -> Install Software).
Search for broadcom in the search box and check broadcom-wl broadcom-wl-kmp-desktop. Once installed, restart your system and proceed with configuring your wireless connection
I have never cared for Filipino politics. The modern day Filipino political scene is corrupt, petty … and resembles a Filipino Hollywood than it does an institution working for the people. Growing up as a young boy was different. When I came into this world, Marcos’ dictatorship had just ended. The Philippines had hope … and a face that it could proudly show to the world that after centuries of colonialism … that yes we are Filipino and yes we are free. Rest in peace Cory Aquino. Your country owes you a debt that can only be repaid by being good stewards of a gift you have given. I can only hope that the Filipino people step back and reflect on the kind of leadership the Filipino people need and deserve.
Less than 24 hours after Marcos had had himself inaugurated, he was being helped off a plane in Hawaii, sickly, exiled and bewildered. His former home, Malacanang Palace, was now a melancholy tableau of abandoned power, overrun by thousands of revelers. The new leader of the Philippines was the reserved housewife who had worn plain yellow dresses every day of her campaign. For her determination and courage in leading a democratic revolution that captured the world’s imagination, Corazon Aquino is TIME’s Woman of the Year for 1986.
Whatever else happens in her rule, Aquino has already given her country a bright, and inviolate, memory. More important, she has also resuscitated its sense of identity and pride. In the Philippines those luxuries are especially precious. Almost alone among the countries of Asia, it has never been steadied by an ancient culture; its sense of itself, and its potential, was further worn away by nearly four centuries of Spanish and American colonialism. The absence of a spirit of national unity has also made democracy elusive. Even Jose Rizal, a political reformer shot by the Spanish and a national hero, called the Filipinos “a people without a soul.” Yet in February, for a few extraordinary moments, the people of the Philippines proved their bravery to the world, and to themselves.
Aquino’s revolution with a human face was no less a triumph for women the world over. The person known as the “Mother of the Nation” managed to lead a revolt and rule a republic without ever relinquishing her buoyant calm or her gift for making politics and humanity companionable. In a nation dominated for decades by a militant brand of macho politics, she conquered with tranquillity and grace.
