1. Create the following file: /etc/my.cnf
2. Paste the following text:
   # The MySQL server
[mysqld]
max_allowed_packet = 128M

3. Restart mysql and you're done!

To send mail with PHP under Mac OS 10.6 (Snow Leopard), you need to enable the Postfix service. To do so, follow the following steps:

1. Enable the mailserver:
   Open your terminal and type the following to open your hostconfig file:
   sudo vi /etc/hostconfig
   Add the following line:
   MAILSERVER=-YES-
2. Configure Postfix:
   Open your the postfix configuration file with this command:
   sudo vi /etc/postfix/main.cf

First build the PDO driver:

$ pecl download pdo_mysql
$ tar xzf PDO_MYSQL-1.0.2.tgz
$ cd PDO_MYSQL-1.0.2
$ phpize
$ ./configure --with-pdo-mysql=/usr/local/mysql
$ make && sudo make install

Then configure PHP:

./configure \
--with-apxs2=/usr/local/apache2/bin/apxs \
--with-mysql=/usr/local/mysql \
--with-gd \
--with-jpeg-dir=/usr/local \
--with-png-dir=/usr/local \
--enable-mbstring \
--with-curl=/usr/local \
--with-curlwrappers \
--enable-cli --enable-pdo \
--with-pdo-mysql=shared,/usr/local/mysql \
--with-sqlite=shared \

<?php
/**
* This funtion will take a pattern and a folder as the argument and go thru it(recursivly if needed)and return the list of
* all files in that folder.
* Link : http://www.bin-co.com/php/scripts/filesystem/ls/
* Arguments : $pattern - The pattern to look out for [OPTIONAL]
* $folder - The path of the directory of which's directory list you want [OPTIONAL]
* $recursivly - The funtion will traverse the folder tree recursivly if this is true. Defaults to false. [OPTIONAL]

function recurse_copy($src, $dst) {
$dir = opendir($src);
@mkdir($dst);
while(false !== ( $file = readdir($dir)) ) {
if (( $file != '.' ) && ( $file != '..' )) {
if ( is_dir($src . '/' . $file) ) {
recurse_copy($src . '/' . $file,$dst . '/' . $file);
}
else {
copy($src . '/' . $file,$dst . '/' . $file);
}
}
}
closedir($dir);
}

sudo tasksel install lamp-server

Adding a user on Ubuntu can be done this way :

adduser

It will ask you for everything needed for a user.
And makes a copy of the etc/skel user.

There is another way of creating users, but that's the geek way ;)

You can use the -d option to set the home directory for the user. The -m option will force useradd to create the home directory. We’ll try creating a user account with those options, and then use the passwd command to set the password for the account. You can alternatively set a password using -p on the useradd command, but I prefer to set the password using passwd.

sudo apt-get install vsftpd

Change settings in this file, for welcome message ( this improves the security of your server, as the version info is not shown when connecting to the ftpserver )

/etc/vsftpd.conf

When you've changed something in this config file, you should restart the service with this command :

sudo /etc/init.d/vsftpd restart

or with:

restart vsftpd

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Changing the default ftp directory

Setup
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git clone
clone the repository specified by ; this is similar to "checkout" in
some other version control systems such as Subversion and CVS

Add colors to your ~/.gitconfig file:

[color]
ui = auto
[color "branch"]
current = yellow reverse
local = yellow
remote = green
[color "diff"]
meta = yellow bold
frag = magenta bold
old = red bold
new = green bold
[color "status"]
added = yellow
changed = green
untracked = cyan

Highlight whitespace in diffs

[color]
ui = true