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Setting up MySQL can be quite tricky because of the confusion between two very different levels of security. To access the mysql prompt, you need to supply the root password (that is, the Ubuntu...

Thanks for this fix. Amazingly, as of todays date (9 September 2010) the problem is still there to trip up a Ubuntu newbie such as myself. Surely if all users are serving localhost out of /var/www/,...

Thanks for your idea. It certainly works better than:

sudo yum install php5 # :))

I also found a marvellous command at...

I would first temporarily replace your suspect Microft Witless Loser Mouse $5000 with a known fault free mouse to check your port for proper portly functioning. If the port proves to be ok, the...

If you install VLC Player (Open Source), you'll be able to play all your .flv files (plus .mp3/.mp4 files) properly (easily better than in Microft Widows). If it is the embedded player in your...

I am a refugee from Microsoft Windows and now need to use Ubuntu as a web development workstation instead. However, I seem to be missing the php scripting language.
The problem is, the Ubuntu...

You must be a Microsoft employee to believe for one moment that either Vista or Windows 7 stacks up against ANY properly configured Linux distro, let alone Ubuntu. You must be a Microsoft employee...

Thanks a lot, Dapper; you solved my problem :))

Great!
Just what the patient ordered!
Many Thanks

Hey!
That's really neat. I had no idea...

Thanks a lot - I'm getting the idea slowly...

I am a website developer and having previously used the Microsoft Windows way of doing things for many years, I am experiencing growing pains getting to grips with the users, groups and permissions...