SSH on Ubuntu [relevance: 3.46]

to install SSH on ubuntu type:
sudo apt-get install openssh-server

Install Nvidia Drivers on Ubuntu [relevance: 3.04]

First stop the X Server

This should be done by running sudo gdm stop but ubuntu keeps restarting them

chmod -x /etc/rc3.d/gdm

then drop into init level 3

you must pre-install

sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-$(uname -r)

then sudo sh NVIDIA**.run

Ubuntu 9.10 screen flashing and keyboard unresponsive [relevance: 2.97]

If Ubuntu 9.10 boots up to a flashing screen and unresponsive keyboard chances are your xwindows configuration isn't working - you can check this by running /etc/init.d/gdm stop (you should have a nice non-flashing shell)

for some reason dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg didn't work for but simply deleting /etc/X11/xorg.conf did - all should be fine after a reboot

Ubuntu alsa-utils sound Issues [relevance: 2.56]

Alsa-Utils sound in Ubuntu 8+ is buggy as hell and always seems to die on me When the sound goes all crackly and

m@m:~$ /etc/init.d/alsa-utils restart

doesn't work; try

m@m:~$ /etc/init.d/alsa-utils reset

other params are:
{start [CARD]|stop [CARD]|restart [CARD]|reset [CARD]}

find java path in ubuntu [relevance: 2.41]

finding the java path in ubuntu is easy, just follow the links... most links live in /usr/bin so:

mike@mbox:/$ ls -l /usr/bin/java
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 2008-12-07 22:16 /usr/bin/java -> /etc/alternatives/java

mike@mbox:/$ ls -l /etc/alternatives/java
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 40 2008-12-07 22:34 /etc/alternatives/java -> /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/bin/java