Posted by on November 29, 2007 under Uncategorized | 
I was installing Evolution to my laptop recently (see article on Evolution, the best Outlook replacement). After firing up Evolution, I didn’t have the option for Exchange. I found that the Exchange connector is listed as a suggested package, so my command of “apt-get install evolution” only retrieved the basics.
I’ve seen this problem before: I want to install the full application with the features I need, but some of the packages are listed as suggested or recommended. If using the GUI package manager (Synaptic or Adept) it is easy enough to click them - but it is a pain to type them all in on a terminal.
That is where Wajig comes in:
First, install it:
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I’ve been in the IT industry for almost 15 years, and worked with both large and small companies. I have never had an opportunity to work with the BGP protocol, until now. My experience with it has been fun (for a nerd), and I have now expanded my networking knowledge, just a little bit, so I want to share with you what I have found. I am by no means a BGP expert now, but can confidently understand and configure a somewhat complex arrangement with it.
As with all things for me, it would have helped immensely if there was a step-by-step example of how to complete my project. I learn by example, and can understand something if I can see the completed work first. So, I will provide that for you here.
Of course, I will be using open source tools - old hardware on Ubuntu Server 7.10, with Quagga. Clean, simple, stable, reliable.
Details to follow soon…
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Posted by on November 8, 2007 under Uncategorized |
On my system with nVidia card, I did the following to enable 3D effects (and later, dual display with 3D effects, which is really cool).
From Terminal:
gksudo nvidia-settings
sudo apt-get install compizconfig-settings-manager
This will install the Advanced Desktop Effects option under System-Preferences
System-Preferences-Appearance-Visual Effects-Extra
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Posted by on November 5, 2007 under Uncategorized |
I found this sample file on the net, so I thought I’d post it here. There are some excellent and complexconfig examples here:
It has a few good examples of configurations for your interfaces file. See Also: http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/setting-up-an-network-interfaces-file/ #/etc/network/interfaces — configuration file for ifup(8), ifdown(8)
#
# A “#” character in the very first column makes the rest of the line
# be ignored. Blank lines are ignored. Lines may be indented freely.
# A “\” character at the very end of the line indicates the next line
# should be treated as a continuation of the current one.
#
# The “pre-up”, “up”, “down” and “post-down” options are valid for all
# interfaces, and may be specified multiple times. All other options
# may only be specified once.
#
# See the interfaces(5) manpage for information on what options are
# available.
######################################################################
# We always want the loopback interface.
#
# auto lo
# iface lo inet loopback
# An example ethernet card setup: (broadcast and gateway are optional)
#
# auto eth0
# iface eth0 inet static
# address 192.168.0.42
# network 192.168.0.0
# netmask 255.255.255.0
# broadcast 192.168.0.255
# gateway 192.168.0.1
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Posted by on November 2, 2007 under Uncategorized |
Quick Tips on Networking with Linux
Sometimes you may boot your computer and find that the network is not up. You check the built in network tools, and can’t easily see what the problem is - time to drop to the command prompt to make some changes. Here are some tips:
Check you current settings:
ifconfig
Don’t see your network interface(s) listed? You may need to manually configure them. Try this:
ifconfig -a
to show you all of your interfaces. You are likely looking for ethx, where x is a number for your interface.
Now you’ll need to edit the network config file:
cd /etc/network
sudo vi interfaces
To add DHCP to a network interface, your config file should look like this (for eth1, for example):
auto eth1
iface eth1 inet dhcp
That’s the bare-bones basics. I’ll add more later.
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