June 24, 2007 · Networking · 41 comments

Setting up a computer to share its internet connection should be easy.After all, you've successfully networked your computers together and even shared files with all your home computers, so why not the Internet? Well if you have a small home network of computers all connected and have tried to open up a browser, you've probably found out that things aren't quite as straight forward as connecting one machine with an Ethernet cable to the computer that has the DSL/cable modem.

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June 18, 2007 · Networking · (No comments)

Sendmail is a Mail Transfer Agent, which is the program that moves mail from one machine to another. Sendmail implements a general internetwork mail routing facility, featuring aliasing and forwarding, automatic routing to network gateways, and flexible configuration.

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May 31, 2007 · Networking · 22 comments

Feisty has a terrible boot time on laptops compared to server (roughly 3x as long) even though it is a faster computer. You can speedup your boot time from over a minute to roughly 30 seconds by doing the following

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May 4, 2007 · Networking · 10 comments

When you try to login using ssh some users might find asking for ssh password is slow here is the solution how to fix this problem.

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