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Reset Forgotten MySQL Root Password
Author: cmdln • Tags: mysql • Comments: 38Reset Forgotten MySQL Root Password Have you ever forgotten the root password on one of your MySQL servers? No? Well maybe I’m not as perfect as you. This is a quick h00tow (how to) reset your MySQL root password. It does require root access on your server.
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IP Address Geolocation From MySQL
Author: marchost • Tags: linux, mysql • Comments: 9IP Address Geolocation From MySQL In this short tutorial I will use a local MySQL database to do IP addresses geolocation.
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pkgwatch -- A Package Management Wrapper
Author: tony2 • Tags: linux • Comments: 11pkgwatch -- A Package Management Wrapper In the past I was trying many different linux distros. Each has its own package management systems: debian has apt, mandrake has urpmi, yellowdog has an apt front-end for rpm, suse has yast... While they all are quite similar and not difficult to use, I found that I often made mistakes because I often forgot which system I was using and the exact commands on that system. Another issue is that I wish I could keep track how I installed/removed those packages. So I wrote a simple wrapper for various package management systems.
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Forwarding Hotmail To Any Other Email Account
Author: sjau • Tags: other • Comments: 29Forwarding Hotmail To Any Other Email Account A lot of people have Hotmail accounts and for some reason they might want to get away from it. This could be because they start operarting their own email server or because Hotmail has feature-wise not everything desired nowadays. The problem is that you can't just forward new incoming mail to another non-Hotmail account wihtout paying for it. There are, however two ways, to circumvent that.
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Creating USB Startup Disks From Various Linux Distributions With UNetbootin
Author: Falko Timme • Tags: linux • Comments: 3Creating USB Startup Disks From Various Linux Distributions With UNetbootin This guide shows how you can create USB startup disks (on your USB flash drive) from various Linux distributions with UNetbootin. This is useful if you want to install a Linux distribution on a computer that has no CD/DVD drive.
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How To Set Up Apache2 With mod_fcgid And PHP5 On CentOS 5.2
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: apache, centos, php •
Comments: 3 How To Set Up Apache2 With mod_fcgid And PHP5 On CentOS 5.2 This tutorial describes how you can install Apache2 with mod_fcgid and PHP5 on CentOS 5.2. mod_fcgid is a compatible alternative to the older mod_fastcgi. It lets you execute PHP scripts with the permissions of their owners instead of the Apache user.
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Mirror Your Web Site With rsync On Fedora 10
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: backup, fedora •
Comments: 4 Mirror Your Web Site With rsync On Fedora 10 This tutorial shows how you can mirror your web site from your main web server to a backup server (both running Fedora 10) that can take over if the main server fails. We use the tool rsync for this, and we make it run through a cron job that checks every x minutes if there is something to update on the mirror. Thus your backup server should usually be up to date if it has to take over.
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Quick DB Setups With MySQL Sandbox
Author: jgoulah •
Tags: mysql •
Comments: 1 Quick DB Setups With MySQL Sandbox There are various reasons to set up quick "sandbox" instances of MySQL. You can use them to test different types of replication (such as master-master or various slave topologies), to test your code against different versions of MySQL, or to setup instances of MySQL on a per developer basis where each person has their own database running on a different port so they can breakdown/setup the DB easily or make schema changes without affecting other team members. A perfect tool to do all of these things easily is MySQL Sandbox.
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How To Run USDownloader On Ubuntu Server 8.10
Author: ais77 •
Tags: ubuntu •
Comments: 5 How To Run USDownloader On Ubuntu Server 8.10 To run the best in automati? file share downloading - russian Universal Share Downloader (USD) on a GUI-less (or, they say, headless) Linux server (in my case it's Ubuntu Server 8.10) we will need four steps. The most complicated thing will be setting up the "fake" framebuffer version of X - Xvfb. The rest is easy.
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QuickStart, The Swiss Army Knife For Ubuntu 8.04 Desktop
Author: Falko Timme • Tags: backup, desktop, ubuntu • Comments: 1QuickStart, The Swiss Army Knife For Ubuntu 8.04 Desktop In this article I will show how to install and use QuickStart on an Ubuntu 8.04 desktop. QuickStart is like a Swiss army knife, it allows you to do various things on your Ubuntu desktop: creating and restoring backups, running scheduled backups, backing up configuration files, installing some common applications, installing DVD codecs, deleting unnecessary files, etc.
