Zen of Linux

The handy nano editor (official homepage, wikipedia) on linux/unix type systems is a very easy to use little text editor (far more intuitive than the much followed vi) and allows very efficient text editing once you get the knack of the keyboard shortcuts. Read the manual if you are completely new to it.
Most functions to […]

Of course, emptying the trash is usually a right-click on the desktop-trash and that’s it. But sometime you’ve managed it to move something to the trash (i.e under sudo) where you’ve got insufficient rights to delete it once it is in trash. So here is the command to do this from the command line:
Open a […]

Install mysql with apt-get install mysql.
The mysql config file can be found at /etc/mysql/my.cnf. Note that additional conf files may be linked from this file.
If you are running mysql on your server, this means a permanently running daemon (a persistent type of program) will be present. It serves database connections on standard port 3306 or […]

Among the searchengines who officially support XML sitemaps according to the sitemaps.xml standard currently are:

Google (related help blog post with details)
ping url: http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/ping?sitemap=
Yahoo (related help)
ping url: http://search.yahooapis.com/SiteExplorerService/V1/updateNotification?appid=SitemapWriter&url= API subscriptionId required
Ask/ IBM (related help)
ping url: http://submissions.ask.com/ping?sitemap=
Live Search/ Microsoft’s MSN related help)
ping url: http://webmaster.live.com/ping.aspx?siteMap=
Yandex (related help)
subscription required at http://webmaster.yandex.ru/wmconsole/

More info can be found on the Wikipedia page […]