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

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...

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 dele...

64 bit Flash in Ubuntu is still a flakey beta (as of this blog post). It can be downloaded from adobe labs. Once downloaded, extract it from the tar.gz - use archive manager or m@mbx:~$ tar -zxvf flashplayer10_2_p3_64bit_linux_111710.tar.gz tar will then notify it has dumped libflashp...

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]}...