Issues after Upgrade to Ubuntu 12.04 - Network Manager not starting and "Waiting for network configuration..." at boot

Both issues are related to your /etc/network/interfaces file. Comment out any automatic interface setup parameters you put in there and it s...Read more »

changing manually wireless connection to be controlled by knetworkmanager

knetworkmanager is a Network Manager for KDE4. It is hated or liked by users and usually not in between. I personally like it although it h...Read more »

Learn the new Linux Network Commands

Doug Vitale wrote a wonderful summary of the new linux network commands on his blog. It includes typical commands as they were before as we...Read more »

Connecting to wireless AP with WPA/2 security using wpa_supplicant

Recently, my cooker updated perl packages and it broke all of drak* family especially drakconf and net_applet. net_applet is the network man...Read more »

Copying Binary Files Via Telnet

Telnet really wasn't mean for copying at all, even less copying binary files. But you can do it with a fair amount of effort. You need t...Read more »

Saturating your Link with Lftp

I've been looking for a tool that downloads with several connections at the same time for a while, like GetRight for Windows used to be....Read more »

Eduroam with Linux (incl. Android!)

The guide my university supplied did not work after all with Linux. So I used an alternative guide, which also turned out to be working for ...Read more »

Syncronized Folders across Windows and Linux - (Cloud-)Free Encrypted Cross-Platform Synchronisation with Unison

I always wanted to sync a few folders of my system across all my computers. E.g. the my scripts directory, where I constantly fiddle with my...Read more »

Fast, Cheap, Reliable VPN for Linux

I did some research into VPN services because even if I'm not in the US or UK for a while I don't want to be prevented from accessin...Read more »

Increase Speed and Save Traffic with Opera Turbo

If you have a traffic limitation I have some great advice: Install Opera. Starting with Opera 10, there is the integrated "Opera Turbo...Read more »

Bye, Gnome Network Manager Applet!!

I love Gnome, but I must admit its network manager applet is not the best I have seen. It lacks many basic, yet important features. For ex...Read more »

Adjust Linux Network Receive Window for Fast Networks

Simply execute the following command in your shell to increase the receive window buffers. That should improve the performance, especially f...Read more »

Booting Linux over the Network

Here's a quick how to .Read more »

Install Daily Fresh Ubuntu Directly over the Web

If you're doing a fresh installation and you don't have a CD downloaded yet, I can recommend the netboot installer . It let's yo...Read more »

Bye Bye Privacy

The New Year begins with complete Connection Data Retention in Germany. This means e.g. your IP is logged every time you go online and many...Read more »

Quick&Secure Complete Network Tunnel over SSH

See this howto .Read more »

Setting up NX

A tutorial how to set up the IMHO best remote desktop connection: NX.Read more »

WPA Encryption Cracked

If you haven't already read about it, it seems to be true : The Wifi encryption protocoll WPA has been compromised. The method will prob...Read more »

A Tiny Backup Script with Rsync

This script lets you easily mirror a local directory to foreign computers that have rsync installed - securely via ssh. It assumes you have ...Read more »

Find Bots in your LAN with BotHunter

BotHunter is a pretty cool software that helps you detect bots through passive network monitoring. Their webpage has just gone offline. I...Read more »