Monthly Archives: May 2008

New iPod Nano Video on Ubuntu

Used the instructions at the following link:http://maketecheasier.com/how-to-sync-amarok-with-ipod-classic-3rd-generation-ipod-nano/2008/03/10to get the new iPod Nano Video working. Shame Apple can’t be more open!Now to work out how to get videos working on it…

MySQL: mysql is not running but lock exists

A MySQL crash on Red Hat system resulted with: /etc/init.d/mysql status coming back with: mysql is not running but lock exists Solved by removing the lock file: rm /var/lock/subsys/mysql If this happens again it may also be necessary to remove the pid file from /var/lib/mysql