alan doyle

Yesterday I needed to setup phpMyAdmin for multiple users so they could each see their own databases when they logged in but couldn’t see anyone elses databases. They also needed to be able to drop their own databases should they need to (I’m not responsible if they drop the wrong one though).

Moved …

I’ve moved the details of this post to a seperate page which I’ll try keep updated for each new version of PHPMyAdmin.

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Well I’ve finally gotten around to putting some content here. Basically I’ve set this blog up as a way for me to keep notes of the changes I make to Ubuntu in my quest to set it up “perfectly”, something I’ve been unable to do with Windows XP. I’ll be slowly importing my old notes into this blog over the coming weeks and hopefully add some content that someone will find useful.

Seeya soon.

I’ve downloaded the latest 64-bit Desktop Edition of Ubuntu and upgraded my Hardy install (after backing up all of my personal data … learnt this the hard way with Windows) and everything runs beautifully on my Acer Aspire 9303. It was almost too simple. I still can’t believe people think “Linux is hard”.

I have to say Ubuntu has put the fun back into computing. I’ve been a programmer (professionally for about 10 years and as a hobby for over 20 years) but until I converted my laptop to use Ubuntu as my ONLY desktop OS I’d started to feel a bit jaded and fed up with the whole computer/programming scene. Windows had sucked all the joy of programming from me. Now I’m trying to learn Python and PyGTK to produce some simple applications (scratching an itch). I also love scripting with bash and the feeling of freedom, the freedom to get my computer to do what I want and not the other way around.

I’ve dumped Apache on Windows in favour of nginx on Ubuntu and getting PHP to run via FastCGI over UNIX Domain Sockets (will publish info later). This rocks it’s way faster and lighter than Apache or IIS. My Server is currently using 72Mb out of 1024Mb RAM running nginx, PHP5, MySQL, OpenSSH and DenyHosts. It’s hosting this site and all the while the Pentium 4 1.8GHz is usually idle, fantastic. Windows used to kick the life out of this box!

Looks like my journey has really only just begun. I can’t believe how good this really is. And I’m not the only one as a couple of my friends now run Ubuntu instead of Windows. It’s all god.