Video screen capture in Linux with recordMyDesktop
PC-BSD 1.5 - the FOSSwire review
When it comes to free software desktop solutions, Linux tends to get most of the coverage. Now Ubuntu, Fedora, OpenSUSE etc. are all well and good, but it's all too easy to forget that there are other operating systems out there too that can do th e job.
BSD-based operating systems have been around for a very long time, but traditionally, the big BSD distros like FreeBSD focus on the …
Leafpad - a minimal GTK text editor
Simplicity is a wonderful thing sometimes. Leafpad is designed to be just that, simple. It is designed as a plain text editor.
The interface is also very basic, and I must say, somewhat reminiscent of Notepad on Windows.
It certainly doesn't get in your way - there isn't even a toolbar, as the number of options on the menus is small enough that you don't really need one. It does …
Reset your MySQL root password
Forgetting passwords isn't generally a good idea. It does happen, though, and if it happens to your MySQL server, this is the process you need to follow in order to recover it.
First of all, you need to stop the running MySQL server. You need to be root on your system, then:
# /etc/init.d/mysql stop
Now, we need to make a text file called an init file. The contents of …