Posts Tagged: ubuntu

Installing Ubuntu Netbook Remix (with Jaunty) on an MSI Wind

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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… Read more »

Set / Change / Reset the MySQL root password on Ubuntu Linux (Ubuntu)

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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

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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… Read more »

Distributing Ubuntu

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… is much better then Windows In other news: I requested my Hardy Heron dvd =)