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Avoid Microsoft Windows When Banking Online

Detective Inspector Bruce van der Graaf from the Computer Crime Investigation Unit of the NSW Police says, “”If you are using the internet for a commercial transaction, use a Linux boot up disk – such as Ubuntu or some of the other flavours…It gives you an operating system which is perfectly clean and  operates only in the memory of the computer and is a perfectly safe way of doing internet banking,”

Sounds like a good plan to me, but then, I’m sure most of you reading this are already in agreement. It’s just good to see this sort of thing hitting major news sites.

Read more here…

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Personal AntiVirus for Linux – ClamAV with Fedora 11

I'm providing the original text file for ease of useGrab it here - ClamAV.on.Fedora
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Background:

This guide will use the ClamAV CLI scanner and the ClamAV-Update script (freshclam).
I wrote this to help all the HomeSOHO users (servers or desktops).
ClamAV has various tools/packages/plugins for email servers etc. but that’s another story.

If you wish to learn more visit their home site: http://www.clamav.net/

Obviously, you can change anything you want, but this should get you going.

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McDonald’s in the USA

This is a map representing the contiguous United States of America, visualized by distance to the nearest McDonald’s. Click it for a bigger version.

McDonald's in the USA

The farthest one can get from a McDonald’s in any direction is a mere 145 miles.

Via.

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FedExing

When did FedEx start putting drop slots in the sides of their trucks, and who can run that fast?

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Some Super Useful Apps

There are certain free apps I have come to rely upon when setting up any new installation of Windows. Some of these aid in my work, some of them just aid in a providing better Windows experience. I thought I’d create a list of my top 5 favorites. To qualify for this list, applications must be lightweight on system resources when running, preferrably open source, and free.

If you have any suggestions for apps which fit that description and make your life easier, post them in the comments.

If you find any of these tools useful, please make a donation to the author!

1. DColor is a great tool for saving space on your desktop by tweaking your icons. It allows you to resize them, and even display them in ‘list view’, as you would see a list of files in Windows Explorer.  DColor will also let you recolor the icon text and background. It’s a tiny app which takes up very little system resources.

2. Color Cop is an eyedropper color picker which can sit in the foreground of all open windows.  This comes in really handy when you are swapping back and forth between Photoshop and Dreamweaver, or are trying to pick colors from photographs. It allows for easy copy/paste to and from using your choice of RGB or several flavors of hex values. No installation — just launch it and use it.

3. ImgBurn is my favorite disc burning tool. You can run it from a command line or from the graphical interface, and it supports CD, DVD, HD DVD, and Blue Ray discs.  ImgBurn is lightweight and sports a ton of tools and options. I have yet to run across a disc drive which it didn’t support out of the box.

4. Filezilla – I never leave home without this one. Not only is it free for Windows, but Filezilla supports Mac, Linux, BSD, and more.  Providing a great interface for FTP and SFTP file transfers, it’s easy to use, lightweight, and full of options. My favorite combo of traits!

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RHEL 5.3 and Depsolve problems in Yum

During some recent server patches on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3, I kept getting ‘depsolve’ errors on several packages. This was odd, as I had not made any changes to anything, installed anything new, or removed anything.

Turns out this is a known bug in 5.3, and luckily, the solution is simple:

$> yum clean all

Run that, and it refreshes your local repository. The next time you go to update packages your server will refresh everything with the Red Hat respository, and all will be good!

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How to recover MySQL’s “root” password quickly

Have you ever been in a rush or just had a complete brain freeze with your MySQL passwords?

Well…..I have.  🙂

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Step # 1 : Stop mysql service

SHELL> /etc/init.d/mysql stop

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Step # 2: Start to MySQL server w/o password:

SHELL> mysqld_safe --skip-grant-tables &

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Step # 3: Connect to mysql server using mysql client and setup the new root password:

SHELL> mysql -u root
mysql> use mysql;mysql> update user set password=PASSWORD("$PASSWORD") where User='root';mysql> flush privileges;mysql> quit

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Step #4: Stop and Restart MySQL Server: (try your new $PASSWORD)

SHELL> /etc/init.d/mysql stopSHELL> /etc/init.d/mysql startSHELL> mysql -u root -p

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Note: There are other ways to reset the password, but I like this one.

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