MySQL

This is right after MySQL is installed.

1. Assign password to "root" account:
$ mysqladmin -u root password "somepassword"

2. Enable networking by commenting out the skip-networking entry in /etc/mysql/my.cnf

3. Create account with admin privileges that can connect from wherever:
$ mysql -u root -p
mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'username'@'%'

-> IDENTIFIED BY 'somepassword' WITH GRANT OPTION;

Making the wacom's mouse scrollwheel work

The reason why the pages never scroll down or up when using wacom mouse scroll wheel is that it's always in contention with the laptop's "Configured Mouse" so we must comment them out in /etc/X11/xorg.conf:



and then further down:



Reboot, and then you're done.