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Installing freedesktop sound theme in debian

I Recently found the 'system sound' tab in gnome-sound-property grayed out my work around to this was to install the freedesktop sound theme. Firstly remove gnome-audio sudo apt-get remove --purge gnome-audio Remove all your old users gconf data related to system sounds sudo rm -rf /home/*/.gconf/desktop/gnome/sound Install some needed packages sudo apt-get install libcanberra-gtk-module libcanberra-gtk0 [...]

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Setting up passworded directories on lighttpd

Open your lighttpd.conf nano /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf If mod_auth isn't already in your server.modules list add it e.g server.modules = ( "mod_alias", "mod_accesslog", "mod_fastcgi", "mod_auth", "mod_cgi", "mod_expire", "mod_redirect" } Add the two following lines to your configuration auth.backend = "htpasswd" auth.backend.htpasswd.userfile = "/home/lighttpd/htpasswd" For each directory add a block something similar to be one below auth.require = [...]

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Grabbing and Sending files and folders over SSH

SCP allows you to transfer files over ssh between computers Copying to remote machines To copy a file to a remote machine run the following scp ~/file/to/be/transfered username@hostname:~/destinationfolder If you want to copy a directory you would use -r which would look like this scp -r /folder/to/be/transfered username@hostname:/path/to/destination and if you want to specify a [...]

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Resetting your mysql root password

First of all we need to stop mysql /etc/init.d/mysql stop Create a mysql table dump to reset the password UPDATE mysql.user SET Password=PASSWORD('YOUR-NEW-MYSQL-PASSWORD') WHERE User='root'; FLUSH PRIVILEGES; Now we need to start mysql in safe mode and import the mysql table dump mysqld_safe --init-file=/path/to/mysql/table/dump & Finally we need to kill mysql and start it in [...]

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Howto Add time And Date To Your Bash History

This comes in very handy if your trying to track back when you had last run something. To enable it just simply add export HISTTIMEFORMAT="%h/%d - %H:%M:%S " to your .bashrc file echo 'export HISTTIMEFORMAT="%h/%d - %H:%M:%S "' >> ~/.bashrc Then reload your .bashrc source ~/.bashrc Now when you run history you should get a [...]

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