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A former colleague has just created a new swine flu tracker for a quick overview of Norwegian cases. If you are interested you can check out http://h1n1.raymondjulin.com/ – Interesting for those of us that follows the outbreak.

To reset the MySQL root password, do the following:

USE DATABASE mysql;
SET PASSWORD FOR root@localhost=PASSWORD(‘yournewpassword’);
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

And voila! You have changed your password.

PS: If you have a “problem” with beeing able to login to MySQL without using password (even when it is set in MySQL), try to edit or delete ~/my.cnf, since that holds information used to avoid the login promt.

Aparantly, somebody is willing to release a OpenSSH exploit in less than 48 hours. I hope (and guess) that it is a joke, but if not, the results can become “interesting”.

Read more @:

http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2009-July/069752.html

If you for some reasont want to clear the Postfix mail queue, you could do a:

postsuper -d ALL

Or if you just want to remove deferred mail:

postsuper -d ALL deferred

Aparantly, there are no gays in Iran, a bit strange that some countries have simply non gay people…

Finally a good use for the color picker in Google images

http://images.google.no/images?q=Facepalm&gbv=2&hl=no&sa=G&imgcolor=black