Free Audio Books!

Free public domain audiobooks. This is a legitimate site. No Ads or pop-ups, it is very clean with a great collection!

www.librivox.org

Time Zone Converter

Do time zone conversions between two cities. This time zone calculator take into account daylight saving time (DST), local time zone and accepts dates in past or future.

http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html

Reset MySQL root password

How to Reset a forgotten MySQL root Password:

1. Stop the mysqld daemon process.

2. Start the mysqld daemon process with the --skip-grant-tables option.

3. Start the mysql client with the -u root option.

4. Execute the UPDATE mysql.user SET Password=PASSWORD('password') WHERE User='root';

5. Execute the FLUSH PRIVILEGES; command.


These steps reset the password for the "root" account to "password". To change the password for a different account, or to set a different password, just edit the variables in single-quotes in step 4.

Cool Free Application - Synergy

If you have more than one computer at your workstation, Synergy is a _must_! And it's FREE.

A snippet from their website (http://synergy2.sourceforge.net) explains it:

"Synergy lets you easily share a single mouse and keyboard between multiple computers with different operating systems, each with its own display, without special hardware. It's intended for users with multiple computers on their desk since each system uses its own monitor(s)."

I'm the type of geek that likes fast and simple installations. If something uses complex configuration, I'm gonna have to need it pretty bad to even try it. But Synergy was super simple! I installed the server portion on my debian linux box, and the client on W2k. A little gui input box asked which side the client and server were one (left, right, top or
bottom). I run a firewall on both boxes, so I had to open access to TCP/24800 between the two machines. And like magic it worked! I'm amazed and impressed.