Change MySQL Password Using WAMP Server

October 20th, 2015

Yesterday I found the need to change the password for MySQL (using WAMP SERVER) and realised that other people might need to do the same. So, follow these steps to change your password for MySQL when using WAMP Server.

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Blood Moon

September 27th, 2015

On Sunday 27 September 2015 the moon was in some perfect alignment that it would have turned red (become a Blood Moon) and it was also a lunar eclipse.

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Generate GIF Image Using PHP

September 5th, 2015

Since the 2015 Hurricane Season started, I have been downloading satellite images from the National Hurricane Center website and I wondered, “Was it possible to write a PHP script to convert all these images to an animated GIF?” The answer: YES!

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Tropical Storm Erika – 27 August 2015

August 31st, 2015

Hurricane Danny caused no problems for Dominica and completely ruined my day. I planned on watching the Maury Show then looking at movies for the rest of the day but that didn’t happen. Then comes Tropical Storm Erika which completely devastated Dominica.

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Cooking With Wayney – Ribs Part 1

May 28th, 2015

In this episode of Cooking With Wayney, we are going to season some ribs which will be cooked on June 6th. Why June 6th? If you don’t know, then just forget about it.

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Installing an HID Kit on My 1999 Toyota Sprinter

May 18th, 2015

I was having difficulty seeing the road properly at night when it rains so I decided to purchase a pair of HID headlights for my car: a 1999 Toyota Sprinter.

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Embed Youtube Video into PowerPoint 2010

April 21st, 2015

I was creating a presentation on Dominica for a training session that I will be attending next week and got stuck. I wanted to embed a video into my PowerPoint 2010 presentation but didn’t know how. But through some experimentation I found out how to do it. Here’s how. Read the rest »

Upgrading PHPMyAdmin on WAMP Server

April 15th, 2015

I logged into PHPMyAdmin on my desktop and notices there was an update to PHPMyAdmin. I’m used to auto updates from using Joomla and Piwik a lot so I was a bit disappointed when I had to update manually. Read the rest »

Installing Tonido File Server on Ubuntu 14.04

March 30th, 2015

First off, let me say that Tonido is an EXCELLENT piece of software for creating your own personal file server, cloud or backup system. Great job Tonido team! With that said, let’s install the damn thing!

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SSL on Ubuntu 14.04

March 17th, 2015

I wanted to have a secure connection to my personal web server so I went online to find a tutorial on how to install an SSL (TSL these days) certificate and I found one on www.digitalocean.com.

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Install Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP on Ubuntu 14.04

March 3rd, 2015

This is how I installed Apache, MySQL and PHP on my Ubuntu 14.04 server. Thanks to www.digitalocean.com for this lovely and easy to follow tutorial and www.liquidweb.com for the PHPMyAdmin integration with Apache.

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Exporting All Databases Into Separate Files in Ubuntu 14.04

February 21st, 2015

So today, I received a 1TB hard drive for backup purposes and decided to backup all 131 MySQL databases. I did a mydqldump of all databases but that was not good enough. What if I wanted to restore only one database?

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