I have been working with LAMP (Linux Apache, MySQL, PHP) servers for a long time. But not matter how much experience I have with them one of the first things I, do after the LAMP installation, is to install phpMyAdmin. This tool makes database administration so much easier than the command line. And when your job is rolling out sites that depend upon MySQL databases, you know how quickly MySQL can fubar a quick deployment.
In this article you will learn how to install and configure the phpMyAdmin MySQL tool.
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I’ve been thinking a bit about the history of the internet, and one important point I deduced was how important Google was to this all. Many-many people love Google, which usually means a lot hate it or dislike it too, but everyone should be thankful for what they have done.
You’re probably thinking that I’m a Gmail maniac, or I use Google Maps too much, but this isn’t the case. The reason Google should be thought of highly is that it made (and makes) everyone question the quality of everything, and taught everyone that even the strongest product can be beaten with the right attitude/tools. It first challenged Altavista and other search engines and won. It then built the best Email app ever, made it completely free and gave people masses of storage.
During this period it “Googleized” all its rivals, meaning Yahoo, Microsoft and smaller companies started to act the same way, thinking more community-oriented thoughts and developing their own stuff to the same standard.
I think most of the Twitter phenomenon is because of Google too. Not that they have anything in common, but the same thing is happening here. First there was Twitter, a great idea. Then others came and created Pownce, Plurk, and loads of other, basically identical services. This is great since it guves us variety, and they push each other to do better and better.
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Working as a web developer I get a lot of requests regarding SEO and getting to the top of Google as fast as possible. While code-wise a lot can be done, this is nowhere near enough. If you want to get anywhere near good rankings you will need solid content that keeps coming regularly. Once you have good posts on a blog for example people will come.
Apart from the reason that content is weighed most heavily by Google, all other so called “methods” are temporary. In the beginning there was the “fill your site with invisible keywords” method. The point of this was to create a huge chunk of text containing keywords, and setting its visibility to none. This means its still in the code, so Google sees it, but users don’t. Try that now and you’ll get a ban in seconds. Then came the meta tags period where people used to give huge-long descriptions and lengthy meta keyword lists. While not such a ’sin’, it won’t give you what you’re looking for.
My point is that everyone wants to cheat search engines and while it is of course a possibility, its only a matter of time before they get ahead of you. If you’re lucky you fall back a few hundred places, if not, you’re banned. As with every other business you have to work at it. I mean gHacks has 4,851 posts right now, over almost four years, that’s about 3.5 posts every day. Not all are written by Martin nowadays, but I bet he started the blog alone, and up until not too long ago he had a day job.
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There are so many possibilities on the Internet to search for and find the music that you are looking for that it is almost impossible not to find it unless you prefer to listen to local bands or rare stuff. Even then the chance is quite good to find what you are looking for online. StreamDrag is - yet another - music search engine that is utilizing the vast Youtube archive to fuel the search engine.
Everything - that means the search, results and playback - happens on the same page which is excellent for finding some music very quickly. One could argue that it is also possible to go directly to Youtube but there are some differences. One is that StreamDrag provides access to a very intuitive playlist that can be used to play multiple songs in a row without leaving the page.
Results are displayed almost instantly and of great quality. Songs can be played right there or added to the playlist to play multiple songs in a row. It is furthermore possible to loop songs or the playlist. The only other control on the page is the volume bar which can be used to change the volume of the songs.
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Webmasters should pay close attention to their websites. Just missing one update of the blogging software, forum script or database engine can be enough to give attackers the means to take over. Websites can be defaced or - which some webmasters consider even more seriously - manipulated in various ways. This includes links to other websites, malicious content that is served to visitors or changing the account ID of the Google Adsense account so that the hacker earns the money - or part of it - from that moment on.
All of this can have consequences for the webmasters. Search engines can punish websites who manipulate rankings, advertisers can kick webmasters and security software and scripts can flag a website to be malicious.
Unmask Parasites is one web based security script that can scan a website for hidden content that might be an indicator that the website was hacked or manipulated by someone else.
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I know I’ve been into rants and criticizms more nowadays, and I truly sat down to do a proper tech news story today, but I truly can’t let this one go. To kill the 5 minutes I had today I read a forum on “What’s so funny about Family Guy” and while going through it, i’m seriously getting the feeling that the population is devolving.
“i liek te show bc of stewie an brian, i think r the funnist 1s” A-What? I mean I’m in my 20’s, I’ve been using the internet for a while now so I should be specialist, but I mean the person who typed this either spent 20 minutes perfecting this, or fluently writes like this, which is actually quite a talent if he/she can also write properly. Another gem: “Srsly, i dun git it, wat’s the big deal about teh show? imea sure I used to liek it, but the jokes now all recycled, adn refercnes are completely non plot consistent?”
Is it cool to write like that nowadays? I love the internet, but it’s true, it is changing a culture a lot. I hesitate to deduce anything from this, but people not being able to write properly is happening more and more, and this is leaking into more and more places. I have gotten orders for websites from some people who can dish some serious money and talk like that (not that bad though), and, worst of all, they’re in their 30’s.
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