The Fedora 11 Feature List seems to cover alot of the Ubuntu 9.04 ground. Everyone seems to be on the 20 second boot wagon. The only thing I'm presuming will be a problem is that you don't get a one click MP3 support install as for Ubuntu. So Fedora 11 still requires...
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OpenVPN – Make Routing Mode behave like Bridging Mode
Note: This post isn't complete. I have this configuration working for myself, but the IPTables rules are taken from a very big script and may not be complete. Email me if you have a question or if you can explain this better. Anyway hopefully there is enough here to...
Ubuntu cannot Ping a FQDN when avahi-daemon is running
My work laptop recently suffered a massive loss of disk space on the Windows XP partition resulting in Ubuntu 9.04 appearing in the boot menu 🙂 but I ran into a ... Problem: I was trying to setup Evolution Exchange by entering the Exchange Server name using the Fully...
Sendmail from the command line
echo -e To: 'The Persons Name ' \\n\\n Body of mail \ | /usr/sbin/sendmail -F "From Name" \ -f from@address.com -t to@address.com.au Where -e says I want to interpret \\n as a newline. -F is the from description -f is the from address -t is the to address Example:...
Linux /tmp size for DVD burning
I was just trying to burn the Fedora 11 Preview DVD in XUbuntu and the default burning application logically uses /tmp as the location for temporary image files. However my /tmp only had about 2.9 GB free space The DVD is 3.8G and so the DVD burn failed due to lack of...
Ubuntu 9.04 – How to map the Windows + E keys to open Nautilus
Goto System ==> Preferences ==> Keyboard ==> Layouts ==> Layout Options Set Alt/Win Key Behaviour as show in next graphic Goto System ==> Preferences ==> Keyboard Shortcuts ==> Desktop ==> Home Folder and set the Windows + E combo (it will appear as Mod4+E)
Ubuntu equivalent to rpm -qf /path/and/file
In RPM based distros you can issue the command rpm -qf /usr/bin/dig and it will return the installation package name I don't know if this is the 'proper' way to do it but it works: dpkg-query -S dig | grep /usr/bin/dig dnsutils: /usr/bin/dig
Finding out when your DNS delegation has propogated
If you have delegated your DNS to another hosting provider you may want to send yourself an email when your DNS domain delegation has propogated (so you can notify people after the change and not have everyone saying "I can't get to your site"). Create a script as...
Installing VMWare tools on a Ubuntu 8.10 Guest
I logged into my Ubuntu VMWare Guest and found the time had drifted by about 15 minutes... I have seen all sorts of conjecture as to why you should / shouldn't run ntpd to keep your vm time in-sync. So I thought I would install vmware-tools... which does it for you....
Ubuntu 9.04 – jaunty released
I have been running a release candidate version of Ubuntu 9.04 on a laptop for a few months now, and it has given me confidence that the latest version of Ubuntu will be good to install on the desktop. Several of the nagging annoyances that caused me to bypass Ubuntu...