There are a variety of ways to change your MySQL password.  One of the easiest is from the command line.  You can use a command like:

 mysqladmin -u root password yourrootsqlpassword

to change your password.  The above command changes the password of the acount root to yourrootsqlpassword.

Well, I have finally bout a new laptop to replace my aging desktop PC. Why a laptop? I frequently support friends and family, so I wanted a system that I could take with me so I had all my tools handy.

I bought (from Costco) a HP DV6253CL (6200 series) laptop.
It has the following configuration:

There are times you want to enter a single-line command to unzip all the files in a directory.  If the current directory is:

/home/timb/download/files

the command would be:

There are times when you need to route all your web traffic (http) and file transfer (ftp) traffic through a proxy.  This may be because you're in a business environment and all traffic is "inspected" prior to going to the destination site or it may be at home where you've installed proxy software to monitor the kids or block them from some web sites / ftp sites.

Setting up the information in Linux to use the proxy is as simple as adding the following lines in one of several files.

I had to install my compiler and make with the commands:

# apt-get install gcc
# apt-get install make

I had to install a current kernel with the command:

# apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r)