Update your LG GW 620

Open firmware for your LG GW 620 android phone.
The project wants to provide an open firmware for the LG GW620/KH5200. They currently have an experimental android 2.2 'froyo' firmware in the Downloads section.
http://openetna.com/openetna/

How to restart my-sql-Server

Each distribution comes with a shell script (read as service) to restart / stop / start MySQL server. First login as root user and open shell prompt (command prompt).

Login as root user. Now type the following command as per your Linux distro:

A) If you are using mysql on RedHat Linux (Fedora Core/Cent OS) then use following command:

* To start mysql server:

/etc/init.d/mysqld start

* To stop mysql server:

/etc/init.d/mysqld stop

* To restart mysql server

/etc/init.d/mysqld restart

Tip: Redhat Linux also supports service command, which can be use to start, restart, stop any service:

# service mysqld start
# service mysqld stop
# service mysqld restart

(B) If you are using mysql on Debian / Ubuntu Linux then use following command:

* To start mysql server:

/etc/init.d/mysql start

* To stop mysql server:

/etc/init.d/mysql stop

* To restart mysql server

/etc/init.d/mysql restart

Free google apps for domains - Get your mailserver done by google

Free google mail for your domain is the convenient way to connect your domain with a mail-Server. Up to 10 email-adresses are in the free edition of google apps.

You can register for the service here: https://www.google.com/a/cpanel/domain/new

Basic Software installation on a new PC

Tired of installing many programs, one each other? Ninite.com offers an easy solution: choose your applications, download the installer, and let it do the hard work for you. The installer can be run again when you want to check for updates. ninite.com is primarily for Windows users who don’t have the luxury of a built-in package manager.

Make your own share this script

Maintain control about your share options with this open source software.
You can use it as standalone or as word press plugin.

Features of the Share script include:

Ability to save pages to social sites like Facebook, Digg, Delicious, Google, Yahoo, and more

• Ability to email your friends
• Ability to save the page as a PDF or Word doc
• Ability to print the page
• Fully extensible with a plugin system. Add any social site you want. You can even add IM, SMS, and more!
• Complete stat tracking - see what pages are being shared, how they are being shared, over any time period

I give it a try. Download and informationan at http://www.enthropia.com/labs/share/

Accessing SSH on a non-standard port via the command line

vento> ssh -p 6896 targetserver

or special directory: 

vento> ssh -p 6896 user@targetserver 

Howto disable recursive DNS queries

Recursive DNS queries occur when a DNS client requests information from a DNS server that is set to query subsequent DNS servers until a definitive answer is returned to the client. The queries made to subsequent DNS servers from the first DNS server are iterative queries.

Thus keeping recursive query can lead to  unauthorized use of resources and DOS attacks.

To disable Recursive DNS follow the steps:

1) SSH server as root and edit file /etc/named.conf

root@server[~]#vi /etc/named.conf

2) add line recursion no; in options clause and it will look something like.

options {

directory “/var/named”;

dump-file “/var/named/data/cache_dump.db”;

statistics-file “/var/named/data/named_stats.txt”;

/*

* If there is a firewall between you and nameservers you want

* to talk to, you might need to uncomment the query-source

* directive below.  Previous versions of BIND always asked

* questions using port 53, but BIND 8.1 uses an unprivileged

* port by default.

*/

// query-source address * port 53;

recursion no;

};

3) Now restart or reload named service.

root@server[~]#/etc/init.d/named reload