The author of the Windows file copy dialog visits some friends
July 20th, 2009 by tim
Tag Archive for 'ubuntu'
Installing Ubuntu Netbook Remix (with Jaunty) on an MSI Wind
February 25th, 2009 by tim
I recently picked up a MSI Wind Netbook and love the damn thing. Ubuntu Netbook Remix brings in a great UI which makes navigating on the small screen much easier.I used Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope Alpha 4 as the base install, mainly because I didn’t want to go through the trouble of converting my ext3 partitions [...]
The Matrix Runs on Windows
January 28th, 2009 by tim
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Set / Change / Reset the MySQL root password on Ubuntu Linux (Ubuntu)
November 24th, 2008 by tim
This came in veeeerrryyy handy just now… Stop the MySQL Server sudo /etc/init.d/mysql stop Start the mysqld config sudo mysqld –skip-grant-tables & Login to the server as root mysql -u root mysql Ser your NEWPASSWORD UPDATE user SET Password=PASSWORD(‘NEWPASSWORD’) WHERE User=’root’; FLUSH PRIVILEGES; exit;
How to stream video to an Xbox 360 from linux
September 22nd, 2008 by tim
There are a couple of different methods floating around to do this, but I think this is the quickest and easiest to get set up. So far, I like this better then FTP’ing files over to my old modded xbox. Some notes about further investigating will be at the bottom. Note: this was tested on [...]
Adobe AIR Beta Now Available for Linux
September 17th, 2008 by tim
Adobe air is out of alpha and can be downloaded here. Also check out Life Hacker’s top 10 apps worth installing Adobe AIR for
Distributing Ubuntu
April 29th, 2008 by tim
… is much better then Windows In other news: I requested my Hardy Heron dvd =)
Fixing Nvidia 8600 GT on Hardy Heron
April 26th, 2008 by tim
After updating to Hardy I got a white screen of death upon rebooting. After some research it turned out that this was more of an Nvidia driver issue rather then Ubuntu. This may not have been the most correct way to fix it, but it worked for me. Completely remove nvidia-glx-new Remove nvidia-kernel-common (this also [...]
Upgrade Ubuntu to 8.04 Hardy Heron
April 24th, 2008 by tim
Hardy Heron came out this morning and ubuntu.com is very much down for the count You can Still update though, click here for the Google Cache version. Happy Updating! New Features in this release: Install on an existing filesystem without overwriting /home When I moved from feisty to gutsy, I decided to do a fresh [...]
