Monthly Archives: January 2009

How to Disable Root Logins in phpmyadmin with Ubuntu

Edit – April 29, 2011 – This is no longer working for me in Ubuntu 10.04 with everything updated. If you can figure it out, please drop a comment!

This took me a bit too long to figure out. Using Ubuntu 8.10 on a server, I wanted to use phpmyadmin to graphically manage my MySQL databases, but disallow root logins for security reasons.

There are two things you must do in the phpmyadmin config file …

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My Top 15 Albums of 2008

Happy New Year! It’s the moment you’ve all been waiting for, my top 15 albums of 2008!

2008 was great (although I didn’t blog much) – there could easily be 20 albums on this list. Links to past lists: Top 15 Albums of 2007, Top 15 Albums of 2006. Here we go:

  1. Amon Amarth – Twilight of the Thunder Gods Last year I said European Death Metal was dead? Think again.

    Not since

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