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My contribution for the Wikipedia

I always admire the people who spend their time on making worlds biggest encyclopedia articles and corrections. A long time ago I published one article in Wikipedia about the town I spent most of my teenage years called Gaujiena, or on ancient times Atzele. Up until this day, nothing has really changed in this wikipedia article, bu there is another good article about the Atzele in new Apes district hope page, here. Apcelo Atzeli

Where do android stores incomming bluetooth files?

Android stores incoming bluetooth files under /mnt/sdcard/downloads/bluetooth

MySQL change root password

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To change the root password for the database in linux you use mysqladmin utility. The parameters you need to pass are: -u root the username used for logging in. In this case we want to be root obviously -p'currentPassword' the password for logging in. Notice there are no space between p and quote. password newPassword define the new password. So for example: mysqladmin -u root -p'myoldpassword' password mynewpassword

Outlook 2007 certificate install

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A time ago a wrote how to solve the certificate issue in Outlook 2010 . I was explaining how to set up Outlook 2010 with your own POP3 server in case you are using SSL authentication with self made certificate. While in Outlook 2010 you just needed to install your certificate, on Outlook 2007 the process for adding certificate is bit more complex so follow these steps to add your own created certificate to trusted publishers on windows machine. Start->run, or +R type "mmc" and hit enter On opened window choose File->Add/Remove Snap-In... From Availbale Snap-Ins select Certificates and click Add In new window choose Computer Account, press next Select Local computer: (the computer this console is running on) Click Finish, and click Ok Expand the folder Colsole Root->Certificates->Trusted root certification Right click on Certificiates, select All Tasks->import and now you need to import your SSL certificate. The easiest way to get your certificates is by saving...

Convert between points, pixels, ems and percents

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Ok, sometimes you get an *.ai file to convert it to the HTML and there the fonts are set to the points, but you rather would use pixels. Or what ever is the reason, so I will kindly give you a list of points, pixels, ems and percents so you can convert between them. NB this is an approximation but quiet a good one. Points Pixels Ems Percent 6pt 8px 0.5em 50% 7pt 9px 0.55em 55% 7.5pt 10px 0.625em 62.5% 8pt 11px 0.7em 70% 9pt 12px 0.75em 75% 10pt 13px 0.8em 80% 10.5pt 14px 0.875em 87.5% 11pt 15px 0.95em 95% 12pt 16px 1em 100% 13pt 17px 1.05em 105% 13.5pt 18px 1.125em 112.5% 14pt 19px 1....

Google's public DNS service

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If you are in need for a free, stable and accessable from anywhere DNS server you can use Google's public DNS server with easy to remember IP address - 8.8.8.8 or 8.8.4.4 . Or if you prefer IPv6 - 2001:4860:4860::8888 , 2001:4860:4860::8844

Open file manager window from console

Some times you work in console, and need to open current path in file manager window. You can open any window and then navigate to location that is in your console path, or you can simply type xdg-open . & The "." means that you pass the current location to the command "xdg-open", and appending the "&" sign at the end will able you to detach xdg-open command from the console, so you still can contine to work on the console and keep the file manager window opened.