Category Archives: Debian
Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex Release Party on 1st of November at c-base (Berlin)
So, half a year has passed and it’s time again to celebrate a new Ubuntu release. This is an invitation for you, your friends and any other human being around to join our “Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex Release Party” on Saturday, … Continue reading
Your mom runs Ubuntu? Join the team? She doesn’t yet? Help her. And join the Team!
After having a lot of chats with friends I’s surprised how many of them said “Yes, I installed Ubuntu on my mom’s pc.” So I assume there is a growing user group which will never pop up in blogs, user … Continue reading
And your favorite new feature in Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex is … ?
Hey. As I am giving a little interview tomorrow about new features in Ubuntu Intrepid and’ll held two small lectures about the same topic my question to you is: What is your favorite new feature in Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex? Think, … Continue reading
Off for Ubucon – See you there?
Just wanted to let you know that I’m visiting this years Ubucon (Göttingen/Germany) this weekend. If you like to, we can have a little chat there. Just drop me a line to “damokles at ubuntu dot com”. Maybe see you … Continue reading
Having fun with OpenSSH on Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex – visual host keys
After having a quite uneventful upgrade to Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex (time for a change), I’s happy to notice, that Intrepid Ibex ships the new OpenSSH version 5.1 which has one little feature, I really fell in love with: visual host … Continue reading
10 hints for having a nice time with an upgrade to Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex
A couple of months ago, just before the Hardy release, I posted some hints for having a smooth upgrade. As the Intrepid Ibex release is three weeks ahead and beta is flying around, I’d like to remember on the hints … Continue reading
My (unofficial) package of the day: 3ware-cli and 3dms for monitoring 3ware raid controllers
Having a real hardware raid controller is a nice thing: Especially in a server setup it helps you keeping data safe on multiple disks. Though, a common mistake is, having a raid controller and not monitoring it. Why? Let’s say, … Continue reading
my package of the day – htmldoc – for converting html to pdf on the fly
PDF creation got actually fairly easy. OpenOffice.org, the Cups printing system, KDE provide methods for easily printing nearly everything to a PDF file right away. A feature that even outperforms most Windows setups today. But there are still PDF related … Continue reading
first “my package of the day” republished on debaday
Just for your information as some people moaned about my “my package of the day” series: A first article about “file” has been republished there, more will follow and I am really happy contributing to this project. But let me … Continue reading
my package of the day – htop as an alternative top
“top” is one of those programs, that are used quite often but actually nobody talks about. It just does its job: showing statistics about memory, cache and cpu consumption, listing processes and so on. Actually top provides you some more … Continue reading