PHP MongoDB (Mongo Database) Driver Installation on Linux, UNIX, BSD and Mac OS X

MongoDB PHP driver is very simple install on Linux, UNIX, BSD and Mac OS X. You need just PEAR (PHP Extension and Application Repository) with PECL repository. Normally PHP development (dev) package and PHP Pear package installation from package management system is enough to get PEAR working. Also go-pear.php script can be used.

I noticed that the Fedora Linux with KDE desktop, has reasonably poor support for laptop touchpad adjustment. For example, the KDE > System Settings > Keyboard & Mouse > Mouse options will not be able to enable vertical scrolling and touchpad tapping. So I decided to write this short guide, howto enable Touchpad vertical scrolling and tapping from command line without any GUI.

Enable Laptop Touchpad Vertical Scrolling

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VirtualBox is a powerful x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization product for enterprise as well as home use. VirtualBox is a general-purpose full virtualizer for x86 hardware. Targeted at server, desktop and embedded use, it is now the only professional-quality virtualization solution that is also Open Source Software.

VirtualBox supports a large number of guest operating systems:

• Windows 3.x
• Windows NT 4.0
• Windows 2000
• Windows XP
• Windows Server 2003
• Windows Vista
• Windows 7
• DOS
• Linux (2.4 and 2.6)
• Solaris
• OpenSolaris
• OpenBSD

This howto shows howto install VirtualBox on Fedora 12, CentOS 5.4 and Red Hat (RHEL) 5.4. This howto advantage Virtual Box yum repositories.

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This is a very typical case, the need to create a temp file on the command line quickly. Opening editor, writing content, save file and quit editor is not the fastest possible way. A faster way is to use the cat command with the name of the file and write contents of the file and give the end-of-file character (Ctrl-D).

Create Temporary File Without Editor on Command Line

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This is quick guide howto find files and directories quick and efficiently on Linux with locate command. Linux find command is outdated, slow and complicated to use, so locate command is much better option.

Locate basic usage find files and directories

locate file
# example
locate httpd.conf
 
locate path
# example
locate /X11/

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