January 12, 2008 · Networking · 23 comments

WiFi Radar is a Python/PyGTK2 utility for managing WiFi profiles.It enables you to scan for available networks and create profiles for your preferred networks. At boot time, running WiFi Radar will automatically scan for an available preferred network and connect to it. You can drag and drop your preferred networks to arrange the profile priority.

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January 9, 2008 · Networking, Security · 7 comments

This is very useful if you want to block internet access to your kids or particular users

First you need to edit the network interfaces file using the following comamnd

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October 2, 2007 · Networking · 3 comments

Introduction
Freecom just brought a brand new product to the Dutch market called the "Musicpal". On the box it says it's supported for Windows and Mac, although its software is based on Linux Kernel. Stubborn and Windows/Mac hater as I am, I decided to buy this nice product convinced of managing to make it work somehow in Ubuntu (Linux geek as I am!). Two days later I managed to make it work! Still not perfect, but enough not to bring my Musicpal back to the store. Therefor I thought it would be nice to write the beginning of a good tutorial.

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September 2, 2007 · Networking, Server · 11 comments

This tutorial will explain How to install syslog server in ubuntu using apache. Continue reading →

July 21, 2007 · Networking · (No comments)

Gip is an IP address calculator that integrates well with the GNOME desktop environment.Gip provides system administrators with tools for IP address based calculations. For example, an administrator who needs to find out which IP prefix length equals the IP netmask 255.255.240.0, just types in the mask and gets the prefix length presented. But many more advanced calculations can be made. Gip can convert an address range into a list of prefix lengths. It can also split subnets using a given IP netmask or IP prefix length. Many more calculations are possible.

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