mysqldump: command to backup a database on another remote server

Thursday, August 12th, 2010

MySQL: mysqldump command tip!

The mysqldump program is often used to getting a data dump of a local database for backup reasons or just for moving a database from one server to another. To make this even easier, mysqldump can accept a remote host as an arguement. This means that if you are logged into server A you can get a backup of server B immediatly without having to login to server B and then transfer the file manually vis FTP or SCP etc. Just use this command:

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Ubuntu VS Windows According To Dell UK

Sunday, April 18th, 2010

I was doing a bit of research today to see how the relationship between Canocial (Ubuntu) and Dell is.  It’s great that Dell sells Ubuntu based computers but what’s not so great is what trash they are publishing on their web site.  Here is a quick excerpt: 

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Use Perl Audio Converter (pacpl) To Convert Audio Files On Ubuntu Linux

Sunday, March 14th, 2010

Running the pacpl program without options

Download and install the Debian package (works for Ubuntu) for the Perl Audio Converter - http://pacpl.sourceforge.net/downloads.html

Then use dpkg -i command to install the package.

From the Perl Audio Converter website:

“Perl Audio Converter is a tool for converting multiple audio types from one format to another. It supports AAC, AC3, AIFF, APE, AU, AVR, BONK, CAF, CDR, FAP, FLA, FLAC, IRCAM, LA, LPAC, M4A, MAT, MAT4, MAT5, MMF, MP2, MP3, MP4, MPC, MPP, NIST, OFR, OFS, OGG, PAC, PAF, PVF, RA, RAM, RAW, SD2, SF, SHN, SMP, SND, SPX, TTA, VOC, W64, WAV, WMA, and WV. It can also convert audio from the following video formats: RM, RV, ASF, DivX, MPG, MKV, MPEG, AVI, MOV, OGM, QT, VCD, SVCD, M4V, NSV, NUV, PSP, SMK, VOB, FLV, and WMV. A CD ripping function with CDDB support, batch conversion, tag preservation for most supported formats, independent tag reading/writing, and extensions for Amarok, Dolphin, and Konqueror are also provided. “

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Drupal: HTTP request status fails / Drupal Status Page Reports Errors

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

Drupal status: http request fails

HTTP request status Fails

Your system or network configuration does not allow Drupal to access web pages, resulting in reduced functionality. This could be due to your webserver configuration or PHP settings, and should be resolved in order to download information about available updates, fetch aggregator feeds, sign in via OpenID, or use other network-dependent services.

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Google Chrome For Linux (Ubuntu + KDE / Kubuntu)

Tuesday, January 5th, 2010

Google Chrome Download For Linux

Warning: Do not install Chrome as root as suggested below… installing as root was only a quick hack when installing as a regular user failed! Please read - http://community.livejournal.com/evan_tech/271230.html?view=1741182

This post is almost a month late! I’ve not been that up to date with news from Google lately but by chance saw an advert on YouTube - who kindly detected I’m using Linux and advised me to download Google Chrome for Linux! What? It’s finally ready? More checks lead me to this page - the Google blog announcement on Chrome for Linux - http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/google-chrome-for-holidays-mac-linux.html
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Use PHP To Backup All MySQL Databases On A Server

Thursday, December 10th, 2009

Here is a useful PHP script I worte for doing web based MySQL backups.  You could integrate this code into some kind of admin web app.  As it is, keep in mind security - don’t put this code up publicly on your server unless you want to share all of your MySQL data!
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Use Sysvconfig As A GUI For Managing Linux Start Up Services From The Command Line

Saturday, December 5th, 2009

Sysvconfig GUI For Managing Start Up Services

As the title of this post suggests, Sysvconfig is a useful program for managing start up services (on boot) on Linux.   Sysvconfig is useful for configuring init scripts -ie: the scripts that start services at boot (or not) where you can enable or disable services that autostart and more.

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Try The Opera Web Browser On Ubuntu Linux Because It Has Great Ubuntu Support

Friday, September 25th, 2009

Firefox Offers It's Linux Version Download

When you get Ubuntu you get firefox as a default web browser and if somehow you don’t - perhaps if you are using a varied flavor of Ubuntu you can get it in a few seconds using apt or your favorite package management program.

But… How about when you go to the Firefox website to download a copy of Firefox?  This is the screen you will get…

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KDE: Use KLinkStatus (KDEWebDev) To Spider A Site To Check For Broken Links

Friday, September 25th, 2009

KLinkStatus Checks For Broken Links

KLinkStatus is a handy web spider program is part of the KDEWebDev suite of applications.  KDELinkStatus can recursively follow and check links (both internal and external) in a web site.

Once the spidering is completed you can then export the results as an HTML report so that broken links can easily be spotted and then fixed.

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Download YouTube Videos On Linux

Thursday, September 10th, 2009

YouTube Video Download Using Linux

There are a few programs available for downloading YouTube videos on Linux.  Here is a quick exploration of two of them - “youtube-dl” and “clive”.

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