Category Archives: Network
usability as blocker? of course. – UbuntuOne and the bandwith limit
Recently I ran into a missing feature of the UbuntuOne client. If you don’t know yet: UbuntuOne is the Canonical driven online space for storing and saving data. It’s a commercial service with a free entry level like similar offers … Continue reading
my package of the day – mtr as a powerful and default alternative to traceroute
Know the situation? Something is wrong with the network or you are just curious and want to run a “traceroute”. At least under most Debian based systems your first session will probably look like this: $ traceroute www.ubuntu.com command not … Continue reading
my package of the day – aiccu (and sixxs.net) for IPv6 connectivity
It’s time: No reason should prevent you from adding IPv6 connectivity to your machine – desktop, notebook or server. Of course it is still an issue, as most internet service providers don’t provide native IPv6 yet. So in most cases … Continue reading
my package of the day: weather-util (weather report and forecast for the console)
Let me introduce you today into a tool that a lot of people might evaluate as useless: Jeremy Stanley’s weather-util. Whith this tiny python script, which finally found its way into Debian Etch and Ubuntu repositories, you can retrieve weather … Continue reading
removing outdated ssh fingerprints from known_hosts with sed or … ssh-keygen
At least from the last issue in Debian-based systems including Ubuntu you might know the pain of getting the message from you ssh client that the server host key has changed as ssh stores the fingerprint of ssh daemons it … Continue reading
Joining an Active Directory domain with Ubuntu
What a pain. Imagine you are in Windows network environment and have a small amount of Ubuntu desktops. You task is to let them join the Active Directory so users can login with their known credentials. There is a package … Continue reading
Bashup – a first example for a simple tree backup over ssh
Some days (weeks?) ago I told you about the release of “Bashup” a bourne shell compatible backup script on sourceforge. As the script is still in heave Alpha I’d like to give you a first insight into it’s development. Bashup … Continue reading
Bashup – a sophisticated Bash backup script
Mnemonikk (who still lacks a blog because he cannot decide which name to choose) finally made the step to create a sourceforge project for Bashup. Bashup is a more or less modular and Bourne shell compatible backup script with few … Continue reading
Ubuntu LAN party
While dealing with preparations for our already announced Hardy Heron release party we are currently planning an Ubuntu LAN party. What does that mean? The Ubuntu Berlin team came to the conclusion that network gaming is one of the major … Continue reading
The dilemma of ssh authorized_keys key files and its comments
Imagine the following situation: You care for live servers and work in a team of let’s say five, six or even more people. Access to the servers is granted through ssh. The people login either as root (yes, you should … Continue reading