Assuming your static IP is 192.168.0.100, your machine's name is computer, and you're on the mydomain.com domain. nano /etc/network/interface auto loiface lo inet loopbackauto eth0iface eth0 inet...

Micro-recipe to avoid entering your password each time you do an ssh or an scp from a local machine to a remote one.Local machine (enter passphrase each time) ->ssh-keygen -t rsa1 ssh-keygen -t dsa...

Here are the bare bone commands to restore your mysql root password -> /etc/init.d/mysql stop /usr/bin/mysqld_safe –skip-grant-tables & mysql -u root mysql mysql> UPDATE user SET Password...