by Ramesh Natarajan
on January 14, 2009
In all the 15 mysqladmin command-line examples below, tmppassword is used as the MySQL root user password. Please change this to your MySQL root password.
1. How to change the MySQL root user password?
# mysqladmin -u root -ptmppassword password 'newpassword'
# mysql -u root -pnewpassword
Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MySQL connection id is 8
Server version: 5.1.25-rc-community MySQL Community Server (GPL)
Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the buffer.
mysql>
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by Ramesh Natarajan
on January 12, 2009
I have developed the habit of reading at least 30 minutes everyday before going to bed. I always have a technical and a non-technical book in my reading queue. I read lot of infrastructure related books — sysadmin, DBA, networking and storage. I also enjoy reading biography of famous people, personal development and occasional thriller.
The 12 Linux books mentioned here by no means are comprehensive or authoritative list. But, these 12 Books are few of my favorites that I enjoyed reading over the years and I strongly believe will enhance your technical abilities on Linux, if you have not read them yet.
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by Ramesh Natarajan
on January 11, 2009
It’s final now. Fedora 11 release name is Leonidas.
My favorite choice Indomitable came as #2. The winner Leonidas got 1108 votes. The runner-up Indomitable got 1054 votes as shown below.
- Leonidas 1108 (Winner)
- Indomitable 1054
- Claypool 944
- Brasília 890
- Blarney 890
- Duchess 838
- Zampone 716
- Euryalus 713
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by Ramesh Natarajan
on January 9, 2009
This is a guest post written by SathiyaMoorthy
You can perform automatic word completion in Vim using Ctrl-x in insert or append mode. By typing the first few characters of a word you can get the whole word either from a dictionary, or a thesaurus, or even the words that are already present on the file that you are editing.
This article explains how to perform following operations with examples and screen shots:
- Word / pattern completion
- Line completion
- Dictionary word completion
- File name completion
- Filling up words with similar meaning (Thesaurus word completion).
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by Ramesh Natarajan
on January 7, 2009
This guide will help you to upgrade from Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron To Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid. This tutorial has total of 14 steps with appropriate screen shots.
Step 1. Check the Ubuntu Version before Upgrade.
How to check the current version of Ubuntu? You have the following three options:
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by Ramesh Natarajan
on January 6, 2009
Fedora board has approved following names as potential candidates for the Fedora 11 Release.
- Blarney
- Brasília
- Claypool
- Duchess
- Euryalus
- Indomitable
- Leonidas
- Zampone
I like Indomitable. (It sounds really cool). Even if you don’t vote, please leave a comment and let us know which name you liked from the above list?
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by Ramesh Natarajan
on January 5, 2009
This is a guest post written by SathiyaMoorthy.
This article is part of the ongoing Vi / Vim Tips and Tricks Series. As a programmer, you may do lot of repetitive tasks while coding such as:
- Adding file header
- Adding function/frame comment
- Including default code snippet
- Performing syntax check
- Reading documentation about a function
- Converting a code block to comment, and vice versa
The Perl-Support Vim Plugin – Perl-IDE offers easiest way to do all of the above, saving lot of time and keystrokes.
The plugin was written by Fritz Mehner, who explains the purpose of the plugin as: “Write and run Perl-scripts using menus and hot keys”.
This article explains how to install the plugin in 3 easy steps and 7 powerful features of the plugin.
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by Ramesh Natarajan
on January 1, 2009
Happy New Year to all TGS readers. I Wish You and Your Family a Happy and Healthy New Year 2009.
Happy New Year from me and my daughter
2008 was a fantastic year for my blog. I started this blog on May 2008 and currently it has 800+ subscribers and a Google Page Rank 4. I could have not achieved this without your tremendous support. I sincerely appreciate your support from my heart.
Visit the Best of the Blog section for the most popular article of 2008 on The Geek Stuff.
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