The new Ubuntu 8.04 look very good and has many improvements over the older releases. I will not discuss about them now. I’ll just stick on the new default sound server, PulseAudio that offers sophisticated mixing capabilities and network transparency.
The purpose of this post is to help other Ubuntu users to enable 5.1 surround sound [...]
Archive for May 2008
PulseAudio and 5.1 surround sound on Hardy Heron
Reset the root password on MySQL
Have you ever forgotten the root password on one of your MySQL servers?
This is a quick h00tow (how to) reset your MySQL root password. It does require root access on your server.
First things first. Log in as root and stop the mysql daemon. Now lets start up the mysql daemon and skip the grant tables [...]
Sample firewall script for Hardy Heron
I just thought that you might be interested in a small script you can use in Hardy Heron.
It uses the new UFW (Uncomplicated firewall) introduced in this new Ubuntu distro.
The script is well commented, so everything is easy to understand.
Here is the script:
#!/bin/bash
## set the default policy to drop (deny) all connections
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Backup your MySQL databases automatically with AutoMySQLBackup
If you are a MySQL user and you want to have a disaster recovery solution, or even as a simple backup, you can write small shell scripts based on mysqldump tool.
For this, you need AutoMySQLBackup. It doesn’t have any real requirements (mysqldump of course is needed – in any mysql client package – and gzip [...]
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