my 2 cents
After upgrading from 15.10 to 17.04 (via 16.04), the NetworkManager refused to control the wired ethernet device, listing it in its menu as device not managed. Turns out after some googling that the package’s configuration was changed in 16.10 to … Read More »
This is how to set up vpnc using NetworkManager to replace the messy Cisco VPN client to connect to the University of Basel: Gateway: vpn.mobile.unibas.ch User name: your full email address Group name: UniBasel-Intern Group password: B82FD7FF53F21B38104EE3BD0A4474BB6A907524EE8D2D6848512BDD966911506C572EC571C246C960094BC42BE80ED9695A7BB121E96166 Advanced Options: leave … Read More »
http://www.petri.co.il/quickly_find_local_open_ports.htm
might be interesting for the unfortunate minds that are stuck with one of those MacOS computers: HowTo: Make Ubuntu A Perfect Mac File Server And Time Machine Volume
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At work, we’re running a 2008R2 AD forest containing 5 sub-domains. now to query the LDAP can be a pity if you don’t know in which one of the overall 6 domains the queried object is located. After months of … Read More »
VNC based simple remote support: PcHelpware
since (at least on debian/ubuntu default installation) the homedir for user “nagios” points to /var/run/nagios the known_hosts file is lost after a reboot and check_by_ssh refuses to connect to any configured ssh-machine… make sure to connect to all ssh-targets as … Read More »
ever wondered why your cisco doesn’t route your packets? simply because the default-setting has routing disabled. obviously, using a router to route packets seems to be a non-default use case to cisco… enable routing: conf t ip routing
today, vino (the gnome vnc-server) killed my background image (at least to me, vino seems to be responsible for this, since it has an option to switch off the backround on existing remote connections). some experimenting with compiz-settings, nautilus and … Read More »