Essential tools for monitoring and administrating MySQL Server

The MySQL distribution provides several tools for database developers and administrators, but they don’t always work everywhere. Fortunately, the worldwide MySQL community has produced plenty of useful tools. Baron Schwartz surveys the possibilities and offers suggestions for what you should use.
At some point I have used most of these tools:
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Downtube 1.1 - Download Videos from Youtube

Downtube is an application that helps you download videos from YouTube. If you know YouTube, you realize that videos can only be viewed through a Flash Player. Sometimes the video is amazing and you may want to save it. This program is your solution. This program is available in 3 languages: English, Spanish and Portuguese.

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VNC Navigator - Manage your VNC Servers Easily

“VNC Navigator allows you to easily manage your VNC connections. Quickly connect to VNC Servers, and store passwords in an encrypted database”
VNC Navigator is a remote administration tool to help you easily manage your VNC servers. Currently this VNC Navigator supports the most famous versions VNC such as RealVNC, TightVNC and UltraVNC.
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RapGet v1.21 - Rapidshare Auto & Free Downloader

RapGet (RAPidshareGET) is a downloader with code recognition for such
share servers as rapidshare.de, megaupload.com, slil.ru and others.
Rapget Features:
- a freeware;
- a small soft (about 170 Kb);
- autodownloads from 65 free share services;
- a lot of simultanious downloads;
- multilingual support (46 languages).
Rapget Supported Service:
rapidshare.de
megaupload.com
sexuploader.com
mytempdir.com
slil.ru
sendspace.com
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MediaCoder - universal video transcoding

Converting video files from one format to another is one of the more frustrating tasks users find as they delve into the capabilities of their system. I know of more than a handful of Windows users that became very frustrated upon discovering that working with video files is a journey into a dark forest of [...]

An introduction to Linux compression or what the heck is a tar.gz file?

If you’re new to Linux and intent on peering under the hood a bit to see what makes things work, then you’ve probably encountered a range of files which are compressed in various formats. This guide is meant to be a quick and easy way to distinguish what’s what in compressed files. It’s [...]

System Safety Monitor 2

System Safety Monitor 2 is available in a free version from the developers website. The tool basically works as a firewall preventing malicious software to be started automatically. The free version runs in paranoid mode which means you have to allow or disallow every process and get nagged quite a bit at the beginning.
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MySQL backup and data recovery with mysql-zrm

This guide describes how to back up and recover your MySQL databases with mysql-zrm on a Debian Sarge system. mysql-zrm is short for Zmanda Recovery Manager for MySQL, it is a new tool that lets you create full logical or raw backups of your databases (regardless of your storage engine and MySQL configuration), generate reports [...]

Foxit Reader 2.0 Released - Lite, Fast and Clean PDF Reader Software

Foxit reader 2.0 has come out from beta version and the new Foxit reader 2.0 introduces a lot of exciting features compare previous FoxIT reader.
On version 2.0, FOXIT having an amazing aspect compare other PDF application like file size of the application around 1.7MB only which is a fraction of Acrobat Reader 20 [...]

Secure your Wi-Fi traffic using FOSS utilities

A recent Slashdot item on Wi-Fi security was a timely reminder of the weaknesses of default Wi-Fi encryption protocols, and the dangers of using unencrypted, public Wi-Fi connections. Fortunately, you can use FOSS utilities to securely tunnel your Wi-Fi connection sessions and protect your Web and email traffic.
To facilitate encrypting your Wi-Fi traffic, first set [...]

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