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Killing Running Program Quicker with XKILL in Ubuntu

by 7:08 AM
Hi. This is just a quick post about a trick to kill a not responding program without even having to find it's process id using terminal / system monitor. Just run ALT+F2 to launch "Run Application" (similar to WINDOWS+R in Windows) and type in "xkill" (without the quotation marks) and your mouse pointer / cursor will turn into an X pointer instead of arrow and just click on any program window that you want to kill. That's all. :) P/S: Please be aware

Connecting to MySQL Database using Command Line (Terminal)

by 1:32 PM
Hi, I am not a fan of using Phpmyadmin to run simple commands in mysql. Sometimes, things can be seen better using command line interface since they are less cluttered. So, here's how to login to mysql using command line. I assume you already have at least one database already constructed in MySQL. Just run mysql -u USERNAME -pPASSWORD -h HOSTNAMEORIP DATABASENAME Please note that there is no space between the argument / parameter -p and the password. So, if your mysql user