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RedHat and the Fedora community today announced the final release of Fedora Core 2 after several delays and postponements. Fedora Core 2 features the 2.6 kernel, GNOME 2.6 and KDE 3.2.2. Subversion is also as a future replacement for the popular but aging CVS.
Fedora’s website is under a fair amount of strain right [...]

To reset the MySQL root password under Red Hat Linux:
[root@host root]# service mysqld stop
[root@host root]# /usr/libexec/mysqld -Sg –user=root &
[root@host root]# mysql
Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or g.
Your MySQL connection id is 1 to server version: 3.23.58

Type ‘help;’ or ‘h’ for help. Type ‘c’ to clear the buffer.

mysql> USE mysql
Reading table [...]

After several months of using qmail to provide email services for hotham.net, I had grown frustrated with my inability to configure it to work with SpamAssassin and other spam fighting tools. Rather than making yet another attempt, I decided to change Mail Transport Agents (MTAs) and try Postfix instead. My decision was based [...]

The story of the boy who cried wolf is one of Aesop’s fables I remember from my childhood.
It features a boy shepherd who cries “Wolf, wolf” one day when he’s bored. The villlagers all come running to help him and are angry when there is no wolf. Amused, the boy does this a [...]

A major research institution has recently announced the discovery of the
heaviest chemical element yet known to science. The new element has been
tentatively named “Governmentium”. Governmentium has one neutron, 12
assistant neutrons, 75 deputy neutrons, and 11 assistant deputy neutrons,
giving it an atomic mass of 312.
These 312 particles are held together by forces called morons, which are
surrounded [...]