Frequent inhibitors to migrating to Ubuntu are what if something goes wrong, where will my windows go, what if I don't get everything working and topmost is I have only one partition what to do now don't wish to risk any partition magicians. A quick fix to all this rests in using Windows-based Ubuntu Installer (Wubi). If something goes wrong you don't lose windows, hard disk space and top of all your patience with Linux-derivatives. All it takes is the following simple steps 1. Go to the Ubuntu Windows Installer Link 2. Let the 1.4 MB or so file to download and then install click. 3. Then let the application take charge while it asks for minimal information like username and password. 4. Boom after a couple of restarts and long download (700+ MB)you will have a copy of Ubuntu lying alongside windows harmless. 5. If you encounter some hiccups then its best to go to the windows and ask around google and then apply the fixes. This is the fun part that such hiccups no l...

Looking for MySQL's administration tool is a task. Installing and configuring PHPMyAdmin would take Apache, php and then successful configuration. Then what to do to look at the tables, databases in the fastest possible way to look at tables and execute queries. $ mysql -u username -p the command will prompt for a password mysql> Show databases; mysql> show tables;  The above two commands are extremely useful when one wants to look at the databases installed and tables in individual databases. For example to look at users tables in database drupal the following commands will suffice. mysql> use  drupal6; mysql> select * from users; These commands can be used in both Linux and Windows and are very handy and dont require much to do.

Why hibernating Linux might be a great idea? What supports the idea? There are basically two reasons that support this idea. One Linux has traditionally lived up to the billing as premium server class operating system.  Secondly it might strange but Windows has performed much better on Laptop using hibernate option than desktops. The former is a direct evidence support the convention while latter is circumstantial evidence. Since Windows is performing better in spite of it’s not so glorious record otherwise. So Linux can be expected to perform better than Windows because of its better history. The conjecture that server’s better performance can be attributed to the lesser frequent restarts needs to be further investigated but for now we could assume it to be true. Therefore its important to start setting up the hibernate option in the Operating System (be it Windows or Linux on laptop or a desktop). Its very good for the battery life too. Steps for initiating hibernate inUbuntu L...