I took a look again at all mails I’ve received till now (and that are A LOT) and just took some comments out of people who requested procedures.
Here are some reactions:
* I’ve just found your web-site, and will say it looks very cool – good work!! (Glenn Remstedt – Sweden)
* Great Site !!! [...]

As of January 1, 2006 I won’t be using MSN anymore as Instant Messenger.
For the moment I use Jabber with a MSN Transport plugin on my Jabber server to allow MSN conversations but this service will be stopped on 31/12/2005.
I consolidate to 2 services.
Primary : Jabber.
I’m registered at the public server, im.stklab.be. [...]

Many of the big players now offer free or ‘light’ versions of their databases, some would call them crippleware.
A comparison was made between databases from Oracle, IBM, Microsoft and MySQL, and the open source offering came out on top.
Read the full article here.
Source : Slashdot

Most of the admins are used working with GUIs.
But what if you only have a bash shell present??
How do set the time and date correct in Linux using bash?
The answer is simple.
Just issue the following command : date MMDDhhmmYYYY
For example : date 122122402005

Skype Beta has now built-in video support and can be downloaded from here. There is no need anymore to install a plug-in like Festoon.
I haven’t yet tested it in a real call so feel free to call if I’m in “SkypeMe” mode.
My Skype id is lvansteen.

A space ship shooting game.
Start playing here.

VnStat is a tool that will tell you how much megabytes or gigabytes the daily traffic was.
Very useful if you have a traffic limitation set by your ISP.
This tool is very easy to install.
Step 1 : Download the code (in this case for FC4) from rpmfind.net
Step 2 : Install the sofware by issuing ‘rpm [...]

Most handy when working with Dell machines…
ethtool -s eth0 autoneg off speed 1000 duplex full

When you work with applications on Linux, it can happen that an applications creates a problem and generates a core dump.
You have to debug it yourself or ask the opinion of someone else. In the last case they will most likely ask you to send them a backtrace of the core dump generated [...]

Some MySQL commands
1. Delete all data in a table:
truncate table tablename;
2. Copy the database schema to a file (eg for backup):
mysqldump –no-data –tables -u USERNAME -p YOUR_DATABASE >> FILENAME.sql
3. Exporting data to a file:

SELECT fields INTO OUTFILE ‘result.text’ FIELDS TERMINATED BY ‘,’ ENCLOSED BY ‘”‘ LINES TERMINATED BY ‘\n’
FROM table;
4. Importing data [...]