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Parted Magic 4.5

A new release of the disk partitioning software Parted Magic is available. This software allows you to change the partitioning on your hard drive. For example, you can add new partitions, remove partitions, or change the size of partition. Furthermore, Parted Magic can deal with all major file system types for Linux as well as [...]

How to configure Virtual Hosting using Apache 2 on Ubuntu

Virtual Hosting allow web servers to host more than one website on a sing machine. This is how sharing hosting works. I become pretty handy as well while develloping different web project on the same machine and allows you to access to your local repository using addresses such as http://dev.mysite.com instead of http://localhost/~myuser/myproject/ :) . [...]

How To Quickly Analyze All Tables in MySQL Database

ANALYZE TABLE analyzes and stores the key distribution for a table. The MySQL query optimizer is the magic inside MySQL that decides which keys, if any, to use to in the query. ANALYZE helps query optimizer to make accurate decisions by detailed analysis of the data, unlike query optimizer which makes quick analysis. The command [...]

Converting from Windows to Linux: Hard drives NTFS to Ext3

Introduction Recently I undertaken the task to convert over to the Linux Operating System. After searching the Internet and reading through many tutorials it became clear that the NTFS File-System is not compatible with Linux other than being Read from. At least not with Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy Release. There in created another task for me, [...]

The 10 unknown features about PHP

Here’s a short list of cool features that might have slipped under your radar as well: Use ip2long() and long2ip() to store IP addresses as integers instead of strings in a database. This will reduce the storage space by almost a factor of four (15 bytes for char(15) vs. 4 bytes for the integer), make [...]