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Attempting to connect to remote MySQL server produces the below error. ERROR 2003 (HY000): Can’t connect to MySQL server on In order to connect to the remote server, and do so securely it is best to create an SSH tunnel with a port forward and THEN connect as though it were a localhost. Things to…

This is useful when you wish to see an error on your server, for example when you are having trouble loading a page. sudo tail -f /var/log/apache2/{error,access}.log

Gimp would not start at all.. Solution: set GTK theme to raleigh start GIMP once set GTK theme back to oxygen-gtk GIMP now works with oxygen-gtk, too!

So my previous post came into existence because I needed to create a mountable ISO where I could change the perms of the files, to enable executable option; done. Based on what I have read thus far, my biggest MYOB obstacle will be printing. So now that its installed … lets find out. hmm Cannot open the…

Trying mount form terminal has just resulted in fstab errors, or file system errors; so I have gone the cheats option for now and installed gmountiso. gmountiso = purge didnt work; I didnt like. I used k3b to create the image this seems to have caused problems. In the end I installed acetoneiso.  I really…

man page http://linux.die.net/man/1/tar tar jcvf filename.tar.bz2 folders tar zcvf filename.tar.gz folders tar acvf filename.xz folders (only use for future versions of linux)

Man Page: http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/CGI/man-cgi?ln ln ‘filename’ creates a hard link to that file name.  Editing either the link or the target file will make changes to both.  Should you delete the original file the hard link, and the contents of the original file remain ln -s ‘filename’ will create a soft link to a file.  A soft…

VirtualBox 4.1.2 r73507 Kubuntu – Natty 11.04 *** Creating a fixed disk results in a hang *** FIXED >> did not use fixed disk option, and only made disk size 4gb

sudo mount //ipaddress/foldername foldernameinmount -o user -o user prevents the ‘sudo’ from mounting the location as root.   /etc/fstab lists the locations to be mounted at boot.