syslogd is the Linux system logging utility that take care of filling up your files in /var/log when it is asked to. On a standard system, logging is only done on the local drive. But syslog can be co...

Linux is a perfect platform to act as a router/gateway. In this tutorial, I will explain how to set up a Linux box to operate as a network router. The box will provide the following services: DHCP se...

When copying files over the network, the files informations can be modified. When using cp, one can avoid this issue by using the -a which will do the copy in archive mode, meaning that it will keep t...

The Intel wireless card 4965 AGN does not work properly on ad-hoc networks since hardy and kernel 2.6.24 or around, network-manager can't get it to use the mode ad-hoc and a standard configuration lik...

Terminator 0.9, an application that allow you to have multiple terminal within the same window, is getting close to be released. FeatureFreeze has been started since a couple of weeks. The bugs opened...

transmission, a lightweight bittorrent client version 1.22 was released on the 14th of June 2008. A .deb package is available for Ubuntu Hardy i386 and amd64 from the debuntu repository. read more