Many distributions of Linux have an option to install MySQL. In this case, or even if you compile MySQL, the default password is blank. Make sure that you set password for the root user. This is the command: mysql -u root mysql SET PASSWORD FOR ‘root’@'localhost’ = PASSWORD(‘s3cr3tp4s5w0rd’);

ERROR: QEMU requires SDL or Cocoa for graphical output To build QEMU without graphical output configure with –disable-gfx-check Note that this will disable all output from the virtual graphics card. While compiling I got the following errors. To solve this problem, I’ve to install SDL library. sudo apt-get install libsdl-dev Should works with Ubuntu or [...]

While connecting to GoogleTalk/MSN, if you see this message: Server require TLS/SSL for this connection That’s mean you did not compile Pidgin with SSL support. All you have to do is to install required ssl. sudo apt-get install libssl-dev libnss3-dev Recompile and all done! Have a try.

Ubuntu.com has an image on the top left hand corner, showing one of the characters wearing a Dell T-Shirt. Kewl!

Greetings From Sintok! Over the past few days, I have been playing with BackTrack 2 Final. I run BackTrack on the top of Qemu. When I ran qemu, I got the following error: Could not configure ‘/dev/rtc’ to have a 1024 Hz timer. This is not a fatal error, but for better emulation accuracy either [...]