ATM skimmers in Balluta (Malta)
Be careful when you’re withdrawing from ATMs. Authorities have just found an ATM Skimmer in HSBC Balluta. They had already found one a few weeks ag…
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Remove meta information of JPG files in Linux
To remove, edit and manipulate meta data inside JPG en-masse`, you can use a tool called exiftool . Since this is a perl module you can either instal…
Resizing and editing multiple photos in Linux
One of the easiest ways to manipulate a multitude of images inside Linux is by using the Imagemagick suite of tools, particularly the 'convert…
Ripping a DVD in Linux
You can simply use mencoder to rip a DVD in linux, and use it as follows: $ mencoder dvd://1 -ovc lavc -lavcopts \ vcodec=mpeg4:vhq:vbitrate="…
Drop/Truncate tables quickly in MySQL
Today I learned a nifty trick from the PalominoDB MySQL geeks to improve the delete or truncate time in MySQL. In both delete and truncate the table …
Linux DropBox syncing custom folders
As of the writing of this article, DropBox on Linux does not let you sync your work folders, but rather just lets you to take a separate copy. Even i…
.Net error: Unable to find a version of the runtime
I don't normally blog about Windows errors but while installing a Windows virtual machine for work purposes I came across, a rather notorious I m…
Setting up a Linux box as a router
If you have a virtual machine in a Linux host which requires Internet and physical LAN connectivity, or you just need to pass all traffic of a LAN th…
MySQL Enable Slow Query Logging
In MySQL, slow queries can be logged in the 'slow query log'. To enable this feature you need to set the following variable: log_slow_queri…
