Listening to online radio stations under Linux

Method 1
Tuning into your favourite online radio stations without needing to open a dedicated music application is a breeze using RadioTray. The application runs directly from your system panel with a menu-only interface – thus making it very straightforward to use. Just don’t expect a fully featured bells-and-whistle jukebox for all RadioTray wants to do is give you access to your favourite radio stations with as few clicks as possible – a goal to which it admirably lives up to. Download RadioTray  

Method 2
I feel like a kid in a candy shop. I installed streamtuner today. Streamtuner makes thousands (no exaggeration) of internet music stations available to you. This includes all shoutcast and live365 stations. You also need to have xmms or beep-media-player or somesuch player that can play playlists. So: $sudo apt-get install streamtuner xmms and you are set! Now you can search or browse through the thousands of streams and pick the one you want to hear.

More>>
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/06/listen-to-radio-stations-in-ubuntu-using-radiotray/ 
http://embraceubuntu.com/2006/04/05/listen-to-and-record-internet-music-radio-stations/ 
http://www.webupd8.org/2010/07/listen-to-internet-radio-in-ubuntu.html
http://www.liberiangeek.net/2010/06/listen-to-internet-radiomusic-in-ubuntu-10-04-lucid-lynx/ 
http://www.brighthub.com/hubfolio/matthew-casperson/articles/73046.aspx  

Radio Stations in Sri Lanka
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_radio_networks_in_Sri_Lanka
http://www.asiawaves.net/sri-lanka-radio.htm 
http://radiostationworld.com/locations/sri_lanka/radio_websites.asp

How to change computer name in Ubuntu

Computer name is normally given during the OS installing phases. But you could easily change the computer name with a simple GUI tool which is there in Ubuntu by default.There is a command line tool as well if you are so particular.GUI tool is simple and easy to use.Here is a step by step guide on how to change the computer name.

Using GUI

Go to System -> Administration -> Networking

Network settings

General Tab -> Host Settings -> Hostname: Specify the computer name

save changes and restart your computer.

Using command line

Goto terminal and type the following

sudo gedit /etc/hostname

Change your hostname Also take a look at /etc/hosts. And change your old name to your new one too.

Source : http://ubuntumanual.org/posts/143/how-to-change-computer-name-in-ubuntu

How to reset Mysql password

ERROR 1045: Access denied for user: 'root@localhost' (Using
password: NO)

or

ERROR 1045: Access denied for user: 'root@localhost' (Using
password: YES)


To resolve this problem ,a fast and always working way is the "Password Resetting" .

How can I reset my MySQL password?

Following this procedure, you will disable access control on the MySQL server. All connexions will have a root access. It is a good thing to unplug your server from the network or at least disable remote access.

To reset your mysqld password just follow these instructions :

Stop the mysql demon process using this command :

sudo /etc/init.d/mysql stop

Start the mysqld demon process using the --skip-grant-tables option with this command

sudo /usr/sbin/mysqld --skip-grant-tables --skip-networking &

Because you are not checking user privs at this point, it's safest to disable networking. In Dapper, /usr/bin/mysgld... did not work. However, mysqld --skip-grant-tables did.

start the mysql client process using this command

mysql -u root

from the mysql prompt execute this command to be able to change any password



FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

Then reset/update your password

SET PASSWORD FOR root@'localhost' = PASSWORD('password');

If you have a mysql root account that can connect from everywhere, you should also do:

UPDATE mysql.user SET Password=PASSWORD('newpwd') WHERE User='root';





Alternate Method:

USE mysql
UPDATE user SET Password = PASSWORD('newpwd')
WHERE Host = 'localhost' AND User = 'root';

And if you have a root account that can access from everywhere:

USE mysql
UPDATE user SET Password = PASSWORD('newpwd')
WHERE Host = '%' AND User = 'root';

For either method, once have received a message indicating a successful query (one or more rows affected), flush privileges:


FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

Then stop the mysqld process and relaunch it with the classical way:

sudo /etc/init.d/mysql stop
sudo /etc/init.d/mysql start


source https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MysqlPasswordReset