Mail delivery failed while sending to hotmail.com addresses

My server was getting "Mail delivery failed" error while sending emails to Hotmail addresses

SMTP error from remote mail server after MAIL FROM: SIZE=3216:
    host mx1.hotmail.com [65.54.188.72]: 550 SC-001 (BAY0-MC1-F41) Unfortunately, messages from 72.55.188.12 weren't sent. Please contact your Internet service provider since part of their network is on our block list. You can also refer your provider to http://mail.live.com/mail/troubleshooting.aspx#errors.

It's hard to understand what to do next since there is no visible service for Hotmail. After some digging I found  this online form on Microsoft Support site:
https://support.msn.com/eform.aspx?productKey=edfsesc&ct=eformts

Filled it up. Do not know if the issue will be solved, but at least they ask all the right questions there :)

Linux: Killing multiple similar processes all together

kill -9 `ps -ef | grep /libexec/abrt | grep -v grep | awk '{print $2}'`

kill all processes that have "/libexec/abrt" in their run path. Do not kill grep command since it will be alos included into the output.

Linux: Remove all JPG files older than 5 days

 find . -name *.jpg -mtime +5 -print -exec rm {} \;

# starting from the current directory
# also print the file path

# note spaces around rm and {}

How To Install ffmpeg on CentOs 6.x (6.3)

I installed ffmpeg on a dedicated CenOs 6.3 server. The installation mostly follows the instrcutions given by the eFFMPEG group here, but there are few important twists if you want to get it done.

1. Login as root

2.Pre-set:
# remove older installations

yum erase ffmpeg x264 x264-devel

#verify you get all teh tools:

yum install gcc git make nasm pkgconfig wget

#create a working folder

mkdir ~/ffmpeg-source

3. Installations

#install yam 

cd ~/ffmpeg-source
wget http://www.tortall.net/projects/yasm/releases/yasm-1.2.0.tar.gz
tar xzvf yasm-1.2.0.tar.gz
cd yasm-1.2.0
./configure
make
make install

#install x264

cd ~/ffmpeg-source
git clone git://git.videolan.org/x264
cd x264
./configure --enable-static
make
make install

#install mp3 encoder

cd ~/ffmpeg-source
wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/lame/lame/3.99/lame-3.99.5.tar.gz
tar xzvf lame-3.99.5.tar.gz
cd lame-3.99.5
./configure --disable-shared --enable-nasm
make
make install 

#install libogg

cd ~/ffmpeg-source
wget http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/ogg/libogg-1.3.0.tar.gz
tar xzvf libogg-1.3.0.tar.gz
cd libogg-1.3.0
./configure --disable-shared
make
make install

#install libvorbis

cd ~/ffmpeg-source
wget http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/vorbis/libvorbis-1.3.3.tar.gz
tar xzvf libvorbis-1.3.3.tar.gz
cd libvorbis-1.3.3
./configure --disable-shared
make
make install 

#install libvpx

cd ~/ffmpeg-source
git clone http://git.chromium.org/webm/libvpx.git
cd libvpx
./configure
make
make install

#install zlib

cd ~/ffmpeg-source
wget http://zlib.net/zlib-1.2.7.tar.gz
tar xzvf zlib-1.2.7.tar.gz
cd zlib-1.2.7
./configure
make
make install 

#FFMPEG did not want to work well in /tmp
mkdir ~/tmp
export TMPDIR=~/tmp

#you might also need to add to PATH /usr/lib
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/lib

#and probably add (I did it, but not sure it is a must)
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib

#now install ffmeg from GIT repository

cd ~/ffmpeg-source
git clone git://source.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg
cd ffmpeg
./configure --enable-gpl --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libvorbis --enable-libvpx --enable-libx264
make
make install

#this should work now! type 'ffmpeg' to try

ffmpeg
ffmpeg version N-47639-g0110108 Copyright (c) 2000-2012 the FFmpeg developers
  built on Dec  8 2012 22:03:48 with gcc 4.4.6 (GCC) 20120305 (Red Hat 4.4.6-4)
  configuration: --enable-gpl --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libvorbis --enable-libvpx --enable-libx264
  libavutil      52. 12.100 / 52. 12.100
  libavcodec     54. 79.100 / 54. 79.100
  libavformat    54. 48.100 / 54. 48.100
  libavdevice    54.  3.102 / 54.  3.102
  libavfilter     3. 26.100 /  3. 26.100
  libswscale      2.  1.103 /  2.  1.103
  libswresample   0. 17.102 /  0. 17.102
  libpostproc    52.  2.100 / 52.  2.100
Hyper fast Audio and Video encoder
usage: ffmpeg [options] [[infile options] -i infile]... {[outfile options] outfile}...

Use -h to get full help or, even better, run 'man ffmpeg' 

Remove or Add MySQL user

Removing a user

-- first, let's see if the user is listed 

mysql> select * from mysql.user;

-- now let's kill the guy 

mysql> show grants for 'idiot'@'localhost';

mysql> revoke all privileges, grant option from 'idiot'@'localhost';
mysql> drop user 'idiot'@'localhost';

Adding a user

-- allow user to connect to the server
mysql> grant usage on *.* to amarokuser@localhost identified by 'amarokpasswd';

-- allow user to connect to the server 
mysql> grant all privileges on amarokdb.* to amarokuser@localhost ; 

-- another option (run mysql client as root, enter on command line) 
-- allows access from any IP for 'user'
GRANT ALL ON *.* to user@'%' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';

-- test if everything is OK now
mysql -u amarokuser -p'amarokpasswd' amarokdb 

Finding the biggest MySQL tables

SELECT CONCAT(table_schema, '.', table_name),
       CONCAT(ROUND(table_rows / 1000000, 2), 'M')                                    rows,
       CONCAT(ROUND(data_length / ( 1024 * 1024 * 1024 ), 2), 'G')                    DATA,
       CONCAT(ROUND(index_length / ( 1024 * 1024 * 1024 ), 2), 'G')                   idx,
       CONCAT(ROUND(( data_length + index_length ) / ( 1024 * 1024 * 1024 ), 2), 'G') total_size,
       ROUND(index_length / data_length, 2)                                           idxfrac
FROM   information_schema.TABLES
ORDER  BY data_length + index_length DESC
LIMIT  10;
+-------------------------------------+--------+--------+--------+------------+---------+
| concat(table_schema,'.',table_name) | rows   | data   | idx    | total_size | idxfrac |
+-------------------------------------+--------+--------+--------+------------+---------+
| art87.link_out87                    | 37.25M | 14.83G | 14.17G | 29.00G     |    0.96 |
| art87.article87                     | 12.67M | 15.83G | 4.79G  | 20.62G     |    0.30 |
| art116.article116                   | 10.49M | 12.52G | 3.65G  | 16.18G     |    0.29 |
| art84.article84                     | 10.10M | 10.11G | 3.59G  | 13.70G     |    0.35 |
| art104.link_out104                  | 23.66M | 6.63G  | 6.55G  | 13.18G     |    0.99 |
| art118.article118                   | 7.06M  | 10.49G | 2.68G  | 13.17G     |    0.26 |
| art106.article106                   | 9.86M  | 10.19G | 2.76G  | 12.95G     |    0.27 |
| art85.article85                     | 6.20M  | 9.82G  | 2.51G  | 12.33G     |    0.26 |
| art91.article91                     | 8.66M  | 9.17G  | 2.66G  | 11.83G     |    0.29 |
| art94.article94                     | 5.21M  | 10.10G | 1.69G  | 11.79G     |    0.17 |
+-------------------------------------+--------+--------+--------+------------+---------+
10 rows in set (2 min 29.19 sec)

http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2008/02/04/finding-out-largest-tables-on-mysql-server/

AWS Glacier Java Command Line Tool for PHP, Python, Ruby etc

For those of us who want to access Amazon Web Services Glacier from various environments and with a variety of programming languages I have developed an open-source (Apache 2 license) java command line app which operates AWS Glacier Vaults and Archives. The app is mostly based on AWS Java SDK samples from AWS documentation, e.g. http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/amazonglacier/latest/dev/creating-vaults-sdk-java.html

This project is hosted with Google Code: http://code.google.com/p/aws-glacier-app/
How to use the app: http://code.google.com/p/aws-glacier-app/wiki/Usage
And the ZIP with all the JARs is here: http://code.google.com/p/aws-glacier-app/downloads/list