Change date setting in Ubuntu server using NTP
This is a shell activity, I’m assuming you did not put GUI in your Ubuntu server and that it is tucked away–headless (no keyboard no monitor)–somewhere in your home office, and you know how to login to your Ubuntu server via SSH.
Synchronizing the Ubuntu box to an NTP server
Network Time protocol can be used to [...]
Forgot the Linux root password
A bit of disclaimer—use the information in this guide at your own risk, the information in this guide should only be used to recover passwords from machines to which you have legitimate access.
your screen might look something like this picture, if you have GRUB
What you need to do is to boot in single user [...]
Change DNS settings on Windows XP
For most of the time, you will never have to bother about the DNS setting on your Windows XP, this is taken care of by your sys admin in the office, or the tech guy who installed your wifi router at home. There are rare (hopefully) occasions when the Internet is sluggish or out-of-whack, sometimes [...]
Install git on Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope
Looking at the forums for installing git on Linux, there seems to be some issues on getting the latest version of git, but the entries were bit dated. A quick install of git on an Ubuntu test server should settle that question.
$ sudo apt-get install git-core
Of course if you are root, you [...]
Two Internet connections using dual WAN router
The general idea behind 2 Internet connections is to avoid downtime during those pesky times when your ISP service is down—lots of reasons like fibre cut, hardware or software upgrade on their end etc, I’ve heard these many more times than I care to remember, but the reality is that your Internet connection goes down [...]
Renew IP on Linksys WRT160N
If you have the wireless router WRT160N in your home network, the way to reset or renew or reconnect your Internet connection is to go to webpage administration of the wireless router—typically http://192.168.1.1, if you did not change the default LAN IP of the router—logon to it (I hope you still remember the admin username [...]
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