If you are sick of hearing about the crap on TV that is 'Ancient Aliens'.. check this out.

There is also a companion website at www.ancientaliensdebunked.com
Also Check out.. (from the video)
http://sitchiniswrong.com/  http://www.sacred-texts.com/

In case you need a quick laugh...

Dynamic DNS updater behind a router.

I use Dynamic DNS to be able to communicate to/from my laptop to the LAN. I recently noticed that when it was plugged in at home, the address it was updating was a DHCP issued by my router. Here is the fix I used to make it work correctly.

replace the use= line in your /etc/ddclient.conf with the following.
use=web, web=checkip.dyndns.org/


Sample /etc/ddclient.conf :

protocol=zoneedit1
use=if, if=eth0
server=dynamic.zoneedit.com
login='user'
password='password'
mydomain.com

DiffProbe for Dectecting Traffic Shaping in Ubuntu

ISP's like to shape your traffic... use the following to see if you are a victim.

cd /tmp && wget -O shaperprobe.tgz http://goo.gl/DvfAy
tar xvf shaperprobe.tgz -C ~/ && cd ~/shaperprobe && make
cd ~/shaperprobe && ./prober

Disable crash reporting in Xubuntu 12.04

sudo sed -i "s/enabled=1/enabled=0/g" '/etc/default/apport'

Reset MySQL password under Ubuntu

sudo /etc/init.d/mysql stop
sudo mysqld --skip-grant-tables &
mysql -u root mysql
UPDATE user SET Password=PASSWORD('NEWPASSWORD') WHERE User='root'; FLUSH PRIVILEGES; exit;

Kernel 3.6.0 in Ubuntu/Mint 32/64 bit

Very early still, but it seems to run quicker & more responsive.

  cd /tmp
  wget http://dl.dropbox.com/u/47950494/upubuntu.com/linux-kernel-3.6 -O linux-kernel-3.6
  chmod +x linux-kernel-3.6
  sudo sh linux-kernel-3.6