When the first time you installed Ubuntu, there is no password for root account. You have to set it first for a security reason.
You must type “sudo passwd”
hostmaster@hostmaster-desktop:~$ sudo passwd
[sudo] password for hostmaster:
Enter new UNIX password:
Retype new UNIX password:
passwd: password updated successfully
To login as root, type “su”
hostmaster@hostmaster-desktop:~$ su
Password:
root@hostmaster-desktop:/home/hostmaster#
The “#” indicate that you are login as root.

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ZYB - the innovator of the ZYB Phonebook - today announced that it has acquired the Danish mobile social networking company, Imity, for an undisclosed sum. ZYB’s existing offering has enabled a quarter of a million users to securely store nearly 16 million contacts. ZYB is now in final development of the ZYB Phonebook, a next-generation solution for mobile-enhanced social networking that will integrate features of the Imity service.
Imity launched in 2007 and quickly established itself as a pioneer of real-life mobile social networking. Imity uses Bluetooth technology to enable …

Scientists at the University of Glasgow have created a nanotechnology breakthrough that could increase storage capacity by 150,000 times. It could mean 500,000 GB on a single chip and inch square.
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Intel posted price cuts on Sunday that included reductions of 50 percent on select quad-core processors. The chipmaker also introduced new Celeron and Core 2 Duo processor models.
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April 22, 2008 - Rack-Soft launched today the latest version of the backup solution for Parallels Plesk. 4PSA Total Backup 2 is a Parallels Plesk add-on that automates the server backup processes and maximizes hosting server availability. This release of the popular 4PSA backup solution comes with new features and design enhancements oriented to improve usability, flexibility, and server performance during the backup job.
4PSA Total Backup handles the entire backup lifecycle: backup, storage, alerting, restore. The software is also able to encrypt backups, a very important feature targeted to customers …

CAPTCHA or the Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart is widely advertised but one wonders if it is really useful or not. But, before we discuss its practical utility, let us see what CAPTCHA is all about. It is a test, which helps the computer to distinguish between machines and human beings. It creates and grades tests that automatically accept all humans and reject all machines.
It gives you a test to decipher distorted numbers and letters, which are pretty easy for a person to do, …

Have you ever had pop up after pop up on your computer screen? Or have you ever seen it happen on someone else’s? This is something that is happening everyday. What is it? It is either Adware or Spyware.
What is Spyware?
Spyware is a program that monitors or spies on what computer users do on their computers. They then send the information that is gathered over the internet back to companies. The companies then bombard computers with advertisements.
What is Adware?
Adware is a program that monitors or spies on what computer users …

The Nokia N810 Internet Tablet combines internet, GPS navigation, and recorded music in a practical large screen device. The inclusion of a slide-out QWERTY keyboard enables easy and fast text entry. The large 4.13 inch by 2.47 inch WVGA touch screen displays high quality images on its 800 by 480 pixel, 65,000 color screen. The transflexive screen with its ambient light sensor provides clear pictures in bright daylight and dim conditions. The N810’s 2.83 inch height, 5.04 inch width, 0.55 inch thickness and 7.97 ounce weight is small for a …

The Nokia N81, a extremely powerful multimedia device is the Nokia N95’s little brother. The Nokia N81 can come finished in either Graphite Grey or Cobalt Blue. Due to the dedicated keys for gamers and play/pause, forward, rewind and stop for the music lovers the Nokia N81 does have a lot of keys. The buttons and menus do offer great control on the phones functionality but can be slightly overwhelming.
The N81 possesses an extremely high quality screen. It has 16.7 million colours although it is slightly small than the Nokia …

Yahoo Inc.’s directors meet Friday to discuss alternatives to a Microsoft Corp. takeover, with many insiders still seeing a Microsoft deal — without the participation of News Corp. — as the most likely outcome.
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