I just got my Snow Leopard MacBook. But i had some problems getting my Huawei E220 3G USB modem running under Snow Leopard. I tried to find updated drive to make my Huawei E220 3G USB modem work under Snow Leopard.

Below are the steps to get the modem working:

• Download the latest MobileConnectDriver Mac package from Huawei
• Unzip MobileConnectDriver(4.16.00.00).zip and install it
• Plug the modem into your Mac’s USB port and wait until the modem stops flashing green.
• Open System preferences and the Network pane. Select the HUAWEI Mobile Modem interface in the list and
• Now setup your service by entering a telephone number. My case is i using Celcom Broadband, so i enter telephone number as *99***1# and enter the Account Name and Password (my case, i enter celcom as username and the password provided by celcom).
• Then click the Advanced button. Set Model to GRPS GSM/3G and enter your APN for your provider (for celcom, use celcom3g) and leave CID as 1.
• Click Apply and then click the Connect button back on the Network Preferences window, and you should connect as below:

In Windows 7, all the  “special” icons like Computer, User or Control Panel  is not show on desktop by default.  and they are now missing, you might want to know how to add them back.

There are two different ways you can add the icon back

1st Method

To put the Computer icon on the desktop, click the Start button, and then right-click on “Computer”.

Beside Computer icon, we can apply the same method on User’s Files icon and Control Panel icon

Computer icon

Control Panel icon

2nd Method

Go to Control Panel -> Personalize (or right-click on the desktop and select Personalize), and then choose the link for “Change Desktop Icons” on the left-hand side.

Once you click on Change desktop icons link,  Desktop Icons Setting panel will be pop up. Now you can chose the icons you want to show on the desktop by checking the box next to the name.

Windows 7 available in 32- or 64-bit version. You have to make a decision to go for 32-bit or 64-bit before you upgrade from XP or Vista to Windows 7 and I recommend you going for 64-bit. The 64-bit systems handle data and memory more efficiently than 32-bit systems.

To find out which version your computer is using, just follow the following steps:

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
3. # wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/phpmyadmin/phpMyAdmin/3.3.0-rc1/phpMyAdmin-3.3.0-rc1-all-languages.zip?use_mirror=nchc
4. # unzip phpMyAdmin-3.3.0-rc1-all-languages.zip
5. # mv phpMyAdmin-3* phpmyadmin
6. # cd phpmyadmin
7. # cp config.sample.inc.php config.inc.php
8. # vi config.inc.php
   :
   $cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type'] = ‘http‘; # default is cookies
9. Restart Apache
   # service httpd restart

Run your phpmyadmin by following link:

http://your.domain.com/phpmyadmin/ or http://ipaddress/phpmyadmin/

phpmyadmin fail to start?

When you type above link, your phpmyadmin fail to start and show following error message:

PHP 5.2+ is required

To solve this issue, you need to upgrade your PHP 5.1 to PHP 5.2. But, on CentOS is no simple ‘yum’ upgrades to update your PHP 5.1.6 to PHP 5.2.6. you need to add Repository to your yum

Just follow below steps:

nano -w /etc/yum.repos.d/utterramblings.repo
... and then paste the following into the editor:
[utterramblings]
name=Jason's Utter Ramblings Repo
baseurl=http://www.jasonlitka.com/media/EL$releasever/$basearch/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=http://www.jasonlitka.com/media/RPM-GPG-KEY-jlitka

After that, just save it.

Now you should able to upgrade your PHP.

Viewing, copying, moving and deleting files

Finding files and text within files

Archived files

Decompress

Compress

Using rpm files

Starting and Stoping

Mounting filesystems

User administration

Processes

Networking

System Information

Program Compile

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 &

Step # 3: Connect to mysql server as the root user.

mysql -u root

Step # 4: Setup new mysql root account password.

UPDATE mysql.user SET Password=PASSWORD('NEW-PASSWORD') WHERE User='root';

Step # 5: Flush Privileges

FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

Step # 5: Quit MySQL command line

quit

Step # 6 Restart MySQL deamon

service mysqld restart

Step # 7 Log in as root to test the root password

mysql -u root -p

Quick Look is a quick preview feature which was introduced in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. Quick look allow us to preview the files, multiple page documents and video with opening them. You just have to select the files in the Finder and press the Space bar to preview it.

Today, i will going to show you a trick on Quick look. This trick called X-Ray Folder. This feature is hidden by default. We need to enable it through Terminal. Normally when we Quick Look on folder, it will show the regular folder icon. But if you enable X-Ray Folder feature,  the folder icon will be semi-transparent, with previews of the folder’s contents visible in the Quick Look window.

Let see the screen shoot without enable X-Ray Folder

Screen shoot with enable X-Ray Folder

How to enable X-Ray Folder

1st – Quit the Finder via Activity Monitor

After that, launch your Terminal and enter this command:

defaults write com.apple.finder QLEnableXRayFolders 1

Done

How to turn off X-Ray Folder

Just repeat above steps and enter the same command with change 1 to 0 in your Terminal:

defaults write com.apple.finder QLEnableXRayFolders 0

In previous Windows version like Windows XP and Windows Vista, if you want to change your wallpaper automatically, you need to install third party software to do it. With Windows 7, it come with a new feature allow your OS automatically change the wallpaper at regular intervals throughout the day. By default, Windows will automatically change the wallpaper from the background art. But you can peruse different images such as those in your Picture Library.

To rotate wallpapers automatically, just follow the following steps:-

• Right click on the desktop and select Personalize. Towards the bottom of this window, you can see a link to set Windows Desktop background.

OR

• Press the <Windows> button from you keyboard, type background, and then click  Change desktop background

• Click the Picture Location drop-down or choose Browse to pull from a folder on you hard drive
• Pick Select All if you want to add all the displayed photos to the wallpaper rotation, or click the checkbox next to each individual photo.
• Then click Change picture every and set the desired interval (how often Windows will change the wallpapers). Eg:- 30 minutes,1 day or etc.
• Finally, click Save Changes.

The 3 main differences between Office 2007 and Office 2003 are:

• The introduction of a “ribbon”

• The removal of toolbars & menu’s

• The introduction of XML file format

But not everyone likes the look and feel of Office 2007, interface is the one most people seem unhappy with. If you’re stuck with Office 2007, yet yearning for the familiar menu of Office 2003, now you have an option to make your Office 2007 look like Office 2003.

An add-in tools called UBitMenu able to help you do that. UBitMenu is a plug-in for Microsoft Office 2007 (Excel, Word, and PowerPoint) that makes Office 2007 look like Office 2003 by giving the additional tab with classic menu.

If you do not like the Office 2007 interface, you can click on menu tab to enjoy the office 2003 menu. This add-in program is very useful for IT Support to support the users who hate the new Office 2007 interface.

Below are the screen-shoot

Microsoft Word before add-on

Microsoft Word after add-on

Click HERE to access to UBitMenu Official Web Site

Click HERE to download UBitMenu plug-in in English Language

GKrellM is a free system monitor software that used to monitor the status of CPUs, Main memory, hard disks, network interfaces, local and remote mailboxes, and many other things. GKrellM is freeware and available for several operating systems including Windows, Mac, and Linux.

You can install GKrellm by:

On a Debian system:

apt-get install gkrellm

On an Fedora system:

 yum install gkrellm:

On an Fedora system:

• click HERE to download

Here is the Gkrellm screen shoot

Below are the Features (from GKrellM web site)

• Hostname/systemname display.
• Clock/calendar.
• SMP CPU monitor that can chart individual CPUs and/or a composite CPU.
• Temperature, fan, and voltage sensor monitors if supported by the kernel and the mainboard hardware. Linux requires lm_sensors modules, sysfs sensors for kernels >= 2.6.0 or a running mbmon daemon. Sensors can also be read from mbmon on FreeBSD. On Linux, you can also monitor disk temperatures from the hddtemp daemon and nvidia GPU temperatures if nvidia-settings is installed.
  Each sensor monitor has a configurable alarm and warning.
• Process monitor with a chart for load and forks and a display of number of current processes and users.
• Disk monitor that can chart individual disks or a composite disk.
• Internet monitor (http, ftp, …) that displays current tcp port connections and charts historical port hits for over two days.
• Net interface monitors with charts for all routed net interfaces. Data rx/tx LEDs and a timer button that can be linked to a ppp or isdn net interface and displays on line time.
• Memory and swap space usage meters, and a swap page in/out chart.
• File system meters which show capacity/free space and can mount/umount.
• A mailbox monitor which can launch a mail reader, a mail fetch/check program, and a sound notify command. Builtin new mail message checking for mbox, maildir, MH, POP3, and IMAP mailboxes.
• APM laptop battery meter with a configurable alarm and warning for low battery time left.
• Uptime display.
• Multiple monitors managed by a single process to reduce system load.
• Charts have auto scaling or fixed scaling modes.
• Commands can be configured to run when monitor labels are clicked.
• gkrellm can run in client mode and collect data from a gkrellmd server running on a remote machine.
• Both gkrellm and the gkrellmd server are plugin capable so special interest monitors can be coded.

If you want to know more about this software, click HERE to visit Gkrellm official web site

To configure GKrellm, just follow the following way:

1. Place your mounse cursor over top of the GKrellm application and press your F1 key, or
2. Right-click on the very top title bar of the GKrellm application and select Configuration. (NOTE: clicking on the title bar of a module rather than the top title bar may open configuration options specific to that module)