How To Setup Disk Quotas For MySQL Database

MySQL server has no support for preventing disk from getting filled up. You need to depend upon external configurations. Let us see how to use standard Linux disk quota to limit user database size.

Suppose you have a user foo on the system as well as on MySQL. Now how do you limit space for foo?

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How To Setup Disk Quotas For MySQL Database

Flickr Mass Downloader

Downloading pictures from Flickr can be a time consuming task, especially if you find a collection that contains dozens or even more pictures that you like and would like to download. A mass downloader for Flickr would aid and help you a lot and reduce the time needed to download all the pictures that you want.

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Flickr Mass Downloader

Get Information About Your BIOS / Server Hardware From a Shell Without Opening Chassis ( BIOS Decoder )

biosdecode is a command line utility to parses the BIOS memory and prints information about all structures (or entry points) it knows of. You can find out more information about your hardware.

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Get Information About Your BIOS / Server Hardware From a Shell Without Opening Chassis ( BIOS Decoder )

Three Ways To Access Linux Partitions from Windows

If you have a dual-boot Windows/Linux system, you probably know this
problem: you can access files from your Windows installation while you
are in Linux, but not the other way round. This tutorial shows three
ways how you can access your Linux partitions (with ext2 or ext3
filesystem) from within Windows: Explore2fs, DiskInternals Linux Reader, and the Ext2 Installable File System For Windows.
While the first two provide read-only access, the Ext2 Installable File
System For Windows can be used for read and write operations.

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Three Ways To Access Linux Partitions from Windows

Recovering Ubuntu after a Windows installation

What follows is a small step-by-step guide on how to recover the ability to boot your Ubuntu partition after a new Windows installation

problem: Windows overwrites the Master Boot Record (MBR), effectively destroying any LILO or GRUB setup you might have had; contrary to what several websites claim: just setting the proper partition active will NOT fix the problem
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Recovering Ubuntu after a Windows installation

Install GFX Grub In Ubuntu

GNU Graphics Grub is the new Grub boot screen which adds to Visual appeal of Boot Screen .. Unlike older grub GFX Grub has now much better themes and customization options.. This article takes a quick look at How To Install GFX GrubBoot Menu..

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Install GFX Grub In Ubuntu

Official Google url Alternatives

Did you know that Google hosts several alternate domain names on their servers that all point to the Google search engine ? Instead of accessing google.com you could use an official Google domain name like 138008.org.ru or msm.byu.edu instead to use the Google search engine.

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Official Google url Alternatives

How to run KDE applications on Windows

Want to run some open source Linux applications designed for the KDE desktop environment, without you know, installing Linux? The KDE Windows Project makes it possible to run some KDE programs in a Windows environment.

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How to run KDE applications on Windows

Nice and Useful OpenOffice.org extensions

Apparently, the only thing that stopped developers from creating useful OpenOffice.org extensions was the lack of a place to publish them. With the launch of the OpenOffice.org Extension Repository, the number of extensions listed there has shot up, and there are no signs of a slowdown. Although quantity doesn’t always mean quality, the repository already offers a few nifty extensions that can expand the functionality of OpenOffice.org and make your work more efficient.

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Nice and Useful OpenOffice.org extensions

Free CD/DVD burning software with Blu-Ray and HD-DVD support

Have you spent few dollars on purchasing a CD/DVD burner like NERO, only to find out later how it fell short on your expectations? If you are someone who likes to own everything free, you might want to try BurnAware Free, an inexpensive (read, free) alternative to the CD/DVD burning utilities available in the market today.

BurnAware enables you to accomplish most common disc burning tasks, such as, burn data to almost any type of disc, including blu-ray (BD-R/ BD-RE); create audio CDs from WAV, MP3, or WMA files; create and burn disc images (.ISOs); write DVD-video files (like VOB files) to a DVD; or write multi-session discs to all supported media formats.

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Free CD/DVD burning software with Blu-Ray and HD-DVD support