Archive for the ‘Ubuntu’ Category
Thursday, October 30th, 2008
A generous gift was bestowed upon me last week -- Dell's PowerEdge SC420 server. It came with two (2) 80GB hard drives which I have since replaced with two (2) 1TB hard drives. I decided to mirror these drives for the sake of redundancy using Linux's built-in software ...
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Saturday, October 25th, 2008
It really couldn't be any easier than this:
sudo apt-get install openssh-server
You're done. Now you can use ssh to remotely connect to your Ubuntu box.
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Friday, June 20th, 2008
It turns out traceroute (or tracert for Windows users) is not bundled with Ubuntu; you have to manually install it. If you're looking for an alternative, simply use tracepath although it looks like there are some complaints. Apparently tracepath doesn't deal with NAT properly but traceroute does so ...
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