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Changing MySQL root password using the MySQL console

Jean-Michel Paris — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 14:02:24 +0000

MySQL stores username and passwords in user table inside MySQL database. You can directly update password using the following method:

Use mysql database (type command at mysql> prompt):

mysql> use mysql;

Change password for user root:

mysql> update user set password=PASSWORD("NEWPASSWORD") where User='root';

Don’t forget to flush the privileges cache:

mysql> flush privileges;
mysql> quit

Voila!

FileZilla Server: Publish the WAN IP address from a LAN installed server

Jean-Michel Paris — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 12:33:40 +0000

If you are hosting your own FTP server at home. I know that you’ve many, many photos to share with family . Your friends may have encountered a warning upon their connection to your server. Something saying the returned address is LAN based. That’s should not the case, as they are connecting to Internet through ISP. The solution is to look closer the “passive mode” settings panel. As named this panel addresses…other stuffs than “passive mode”!

Solution: Help FileZilla Server to retrieve the WAN IP address, from Internet, through a third part web server dedicated to this action. The FileZilla Server analyse returned HTML page then, to extract the WAN IP Address – that allocated by your ISP.

Action:

Firstly, tick the “Retrieve External IP address from:”.
Secondly, in the underlying form; type in http://dynupdate.no-ip.com/ip.php.
Thirdly, tick the “Don’t use external IP for local connections”.

Voila!

Checking: Why not using the client from FileZilla project to control that? OK. just run “FileZilla”, supply the credentials to connect to the server, and you can see in the top “message” view:

Q.E.D.!

Conflict between Kaspersky and Webdrive

Jean-Michel Paris — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 23:44:15 +0000

I really apreciate the Kaspersky Anti-Virus, I think the best from far. However, his memory intrusion dectection is so…intruisive that sometimes, and with some other applications; the PC can either crash or got stuck.That’s exactly the case for the very usefull WebDrive application, in conjunction with Kaspersky.

The solution is to add WebDrive.exe in the trusted application zone, and do stop all kind of detection for this application.

Installation issue with Adobe Photoshop CS4

Jean-Michel Paris — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 23:23:14 +0000

Yesteday, I intented to install an evaluation of Adobe Photoshop CS4. But unfortunatly, i always faced to the following error during the installation:

“Critical errors were found in setup Please see the Setup log file for details”.
After googling, i found that this issue is related to the IE user agent. I tried to clean the registry of indesirable user agent, but nothing solved. After look deeply inside my IE 7, It appeared that my IE 7 didn’t work so well. The ‘about’ dialog window always return an error ‘not enough memory’.
I was sure the error is 100% related to IE 7. But, under Vista, it’s impossible to reinstall IE 7 (such a shame). So, I decided to upgrade it to IE 8 beta 2! And then, the Adobe Photoshop CS4 install ran fine!
One time more, stuck by Microsoft!

(Français) SyncBack & DropBox (3 sur 3)

Jean-Michel Paris — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 16:04:45 +0000

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(Français) SyncBack & DropBox (2 sur 3)

Jean-Michel Paris — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 15:56:55 +0000

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(Français) SyncBack & DropBox (1 sur 3)

Jean-Michel Paris — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 15:55:38 +0000

Sorry, this entry is only available in Français.