Category Archives: PackeOfTheDay
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
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
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 – gpg for symmetric encryption
Though asymmetric encryption is state of the art today, there are still cases when you probably are in need of a simple symmetric encryption. In my case, I need an easy scriptable interface for encrypting files for backup as transparent … Continue reading
my (not yet) package of the day – circular application menu
(Not yet a package, but still interesting enough to tell and hey: bleeding edge.) Circular Application Menu for Gnome is a Google Code hosted project providing a different access method to your Gnome menu. Actually all it does, is displaying … Continue reading
my package of the day – sash – the Stand Alone SHell for system recovery
Let me introduce you today to a package that is quite unknown as you hopefully never need it. But when you need it and have not thought about it before, it is probably already too late. I am talking about … 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