Archive for the ‘Networking’ Category

Connect your Xbox to the Internet using your Mac

Saturday, April 4th, 2009

Problem: Many instructions that I have found to connect your Xbox to the Internet using your Mac (with Airport and Ethernet) did not work for me.  I experienced an interesting problem while following these other instructions, and managed to find a solution.

Quick Solution: Follow other instructions on the Internet, but make sure that your Mac’s Ethernet address is manually set to “192.168.2.1″ with a subnet mask of “255.255.255.0″.

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An ssh problem when trying to log in

Thursday, May 22nd, 2008

Problem:  I have a computer running Ubunutu (Linux) and I needed to ssh into it for some MySQL management.  I set up the ssh server, and was able to enter my username and password, but would be denied because of a wrong username/password combination.

Quick Solution: Even if your username includes a mix of capital and lowercase letters, you should use all lowercase when using terminal.

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