How to install phpmyadmin on Centos

February 17, 2010 · Posted in Linux, Open Source, Uncategorized, centos · Comment 

phpMyAdmin is an open source tool written in PHP intended to handle the administration of MySQL over the World Wide Web. It can perform various tasks such as creating, modifying or deleting databases, tables, fields or rows; executing SQL statements; or managing users and permissions. (Info from http://www.phpmyadmin.net)

How to install phpmyadmin? Before you install phpmyadmin, you need to install your LAMP 1st. Once you install, just follow below steps:-

  1. $ su -
  2. # cd /var/www/html Read more

How To Reset MySQL Root Password

February 12, 2010 · Posted in Linux, Open Source, Uncategorized, centos · Comment 

I setup MySQL Server on CentOS few month ago, but i forgot the root password for MySQL. How to reset the password?

You can recover MySQL database server password with following steps.

Step # 1: Stop the MySQL server process.

service mysqld stop

Step # 2: Start the MySQL (mysqld) in safe mode with the –skip-grant-tables option

mysql_safe -skip-grant-tables-u root & Read more

How to Merge Multiple PDF Files Into One PDF

January 6, 2010 · Posted in Mac OS X, Open Source · Comment 

I have a few PDF files, i want to combine these files into one single PDF file in my Mac OS X.

After i do research on google, i found that is 1 open source software called Pdfsam. Pdfsam is a tool designed to split and merge pdf files.

To install Pdfsam, just follow the following steps:

  • Download Pdfsam from HERE
  • Once finish, double click the .dmg file you just download
  • Drag Pdfsam-1.2.0 icon to your Application folder

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