SAN FRANCISCO - Google Tuesday apologised for an outage that struck possibly millions of users of its email system, Gmail, earlier in the day.

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Do you want to recover the MySQL root password. its by no means, easy. But its quite simple if you follow the procedure. You will have to follow this step-by-step processes. Full article (279 words) »

Do you get this error message when you try to change the root password?

mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost' failed
error: 'Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: YES)'

Or may be you need to change the MySQL password for other users. So what do you do then?

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BANGALORE - The massive financial fraud by IT bellwether Satyam Computer Services has goaded the software industry's representative body into issuing a wake-up call to its members across India and abroad.

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Are you still struggling to get the best software for Windows Vista?  Well, here's a pick. To make your task easier, go though the top 5 free software we have selected for Windows Vista which includes the following:

• Best Anti-virus software - Avira Antivir
• Best Anti-spyware Software- Spybot
• Best Audio Player - Media Monkey
• Best Video Player - GOM Player
• Best File Compression Software- 7-Zip

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Windows XP has been the single best thing that Windows has come out with in last 15 years. There have been millions of users who have admired and relied on Windows XP. Though, I will talk about the less fortunate ones among the lot. I am talking about Windows XP Home users. I donno why they chose it but I am sure that they at once wanted to change it to Windows XP Professional. So here is a scope for them to change Windows XP Home to Windows XP Professional.

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Wordpress is the leading blogging software for pro-bloggers as well as amateur bloggers around the world. So, be it latest news (Wordpress 2.7) or tweaks, we cover it. The Achilles heel of WordPress is its security, which they try to continuously address by frequent patches after every major release similar to Microsoft Windows. If you are a Wordpress user, you must be very concerned with security issues and for good reasons. In this world of growing intrusions, hacking, cracking and data-thefts, security is of major concern for a starter as well as for a pro. Here are 20 Plugins and tips for you to help you get a good sleep at night assuring you that your blog is in safe hands (read WordPress security plug-ins).

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Today I am going to tell you the trick to hack your root passoword in Linux if you are too forgetful to remember it or you have legal permission to enter a server run by a different admin and by any chance he forgot to give you the root password. Full article (385 words) »

You probably know how you can format a Linux partition:

mkfs.ext3 /dev/hda

This formats the partition with ext3 file system. However did you know how to extract maximum space out of this partition, especially if it a large partition?

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This technique will only work if your Apache server has PHP enabled (how to test php support in apache http server) and .htaccess enabled.

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