Monthly Archives: October 2009

Installing phpMyAdmin on CentOS [Update]

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Because CentOS doesn’t pull all dependencies correctly, here is my little memory hook for installing phpmyadmin (and mysql, of course) After installing the packages, edit /etc/httpd/conf.d/phpmyadmin.conf and add the IP of your admin workstation to the line that begins with Allow from. For using phpmyadmin with cookie auth, you have to set a blowfish secret in /usr/share/phpmyadmin/config.inc.php: Update: Added php-mbstring

Adjusting your fanspeed with trinity (lm_sensors, pwmconfig and fancontrol)

Modern CPU throttling technology like Intel’s SpeedStep or AMD’s Cool’n’Quiet are quite fancy. They not only reduce the CPU frequency and the core voltage, the mainboard also detects an idling, cool CPU and therefore reduces the fanspeed. But what if the fanspeed is still to high while the CPU is doing nothing? Or maybe the fan doesn’t spin fast enough… Read more »