2008 August - Part 5

Archive for August, 2008

WordPress is_home() conditional tag

posted on August 14, 2008 in Blogging, HowTo, WordPress with 10 Comments

I use the is_home() conditional tag to control when my ads show up. I prefer to only have my ads show up when single posts are viewed. Helps keep my home page looking clean and relevant. Currently, I have my ads setup to show on all pages except for my home page. To get the [...]

How to reset the root password for MySQL

posted on August 13, 2008 in HowTo, Linux with 0 Comments

It happens, you set a super complicated password for your MySQL root account and 2 months down the road forget what it was. Here’s how you’d fix that. 1. Stop your current MySQL database if it is running root@abubu# service mysqld stop 2. Start MySQL in safe mode and bypass reading the privilege table. root@abubu# [...]

My openSUSE 11 repositories

posted on August 10, 2008 in HowTo, Linux, Open Source, Software with 4 Comments

These are the repositories I typically use with my openSUSE installs. Might come in handy for you

Beijing 2008 is here

posted on August 8, 2008 in Cool Stuff, General with 1 Comment

Don’t forget to catch the Beijing 2008 opening ceremony today on ASTRO at 8pm local time (GMT +8) on channel 816. Afterall they are the masters of fireworks so a great show is garanteed. Let’s get together to celebrate humanity in the greatest sporting spectacular in the world. The Beijing 2008 Olympics!! Source: Beijing 2008 [...]

Digg released their first Firefox 3 extension

posted on August 8, 2008 in Internet, Software, Web 2.0 with 6 Comments

Digg have released their first Firefox 3 extension. The extension comes with a toolbar and a status bar button. The toolbar shows you Digg counts and comments of sites you visit and also includes the ability to digg new sites.

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