How to find your MAC address (Linux/Windows/Mac OS X)
Windows XP/Vista/7
Run ipconfig/all from a Command Prompt window.
- click Start, then Run, then type
cmdin the text box.
- Type in ipconfig/all in the Command Prompt Windows and press enter
You should get something like this Read more
How to open winrar files on Linux (Fedora/Ubuntu)
I just downloaded .rar file. But i can’t open it under my Fedora operating systems. How to open it?
RAR is a proprietary compression format widely used today. By default, Fedora unable to open RAR files. So, you need to install a software called unrar.
How to install unrar on Fedora?
Just use yum command as follows : Read more
How to Change, set or change MySQL root Password
Once you installed MySQL, you might need to set the MySQL root password to protect your DB. Actually how to do that?
Just type the following command on your terminal
[root@techkaki] # mysqladmin -u root password NEWPASSWORD
However, if you want to change (or update) a root password, then you need to use following command
[root@techkaki] # mysqladmin -u root -p 'oldpassword' password newpass
Eg:
[root@techkaki] # mysqladmin -u root -p 'abcdef' password '123456'
