Updating modules and themes requires FTP access to your server

How to get rid of that pesky (D7) FTP issue when updating modules:

Updating modules and themes requires FTP access to your server

http://drupal.org/documentation/install/modules-themes/modules-7#comment-4690140

The short of it, change the owner of the sites/default directory to whoever the Apache default user is (www-data, apache, etc.)

chown www-data sites/default

Drupal upgrade 6.11

I upgraded my site to 6.11 and am having the same issue as lots of others.  When logging in, the default page is now the User Profile page rather than the home page.  Argh!!!  I will take a look at the posts where others have shared their ideas.  But hey, this is my fault.  I released the update to prod and just didn’t realize it was happening locally. :P

http://drupal.org/node/449386
http://drupal.org/node/450466
http://drupal.org/node/127849

Update:
I messed around with Actions and Triggers a bit (not long) and decided it seemed easier to go with the Login Destination module (http://drupal.org/project/login_destination).  Boy that was easy to setup.  I like how easy it was to configure it so admin goes to his own page, whereas normal users can go to wherever I configure it to.  Pretty simple to setup! 

I would like to mess around with Actions and Triggers a bit more to get a good example and feel for them.