Install LAMP with PHPMyAdmin on Ubuntu using 1 command

LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP) is an open source Web development platform that uses Linux as operating system, Apache as the Web server, MySQL as the relational database management system and PHP as the object-oriented scripting language.

To install the LAMP stack with PHPMyAdmin on Ubuntu, fire up your terminal and type the following command:

sudo apt-get  install lamp-server^ phpmyadmin

If you’re curious, the caret (^) in the command means that it’s a Taskel task. This link has a fairly good explanation of Taskel.

To access PHPMyAdmin, open terminal & type:

sudo gedit /etc/apache2/apache2.conf

Add this line somewhere in that file:

Include /etc/phpmyadmin/apache.conf 

Finally restart Apache using:

/etc/init.d/apache2 restart

or

sudo service apache2 restart

RSS/ATOM Feeds for Twitter Accounts

Twitter removed the option of watching someone’s user account using RSS/ATOM Feeds with their latest redesign but you can still access it at the following URL:

http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.rss?screen_name=TWITTERHANDLE

Just replace ‘TWITTERHANDLE’ in the URL above with your desired handle.

Immigrant Neighbour

Your car is German. Your vodka is Russian. Your pizza is Italian. Your kebab is Turkish. Your democracy is Greek. Your coffee is Brazilian. Your movies are American. Your humor is Jewish. Your tea is Tamil. Your shirt is Indian. Your oil is Saudi Arabian. Your electronics are Chinese. Your numbers are Arabic and your letters are Latin. And you complain that your neighbor is an immigrant?

A simple example of ‘How Media Manipulates our Mind’

If the person who killed 90+ people in Norway was a Muslim, the press would have declared him as terrorist. For now though, he is just an ‘Assailant’, ‘Attacker’ (Reuters), ‘Gunman’ (BBC, CNN & Al Jazeera). Looks like ‘terrorist’ is a name reserved for Muslim? The US Dept of State calls it an an ‘Act of violence’, Not an ‘Act of Terrorism’.

This is how media manipulates our mind – though subtly.