Angry IP scanner is a free network scanner which supports Mac OSX, Windows and Linux. It has an intuitive GUI which makes it easy to use. You can download Angry IP scanner here, more screenshots are available here.
The last few days I keep having trouble connecting to my imap server running Cyrus. I started to view my syslog when trying to authenticate to the Cyrus server, there was one line interesting:
I thought it should have something to do with the passwords so I tried to enter the Cyrus server with:
When I entered my password I could not connect. This was weird since I was 100% sure about the correctness. To be sure I resetted all my imap box passwords using:
This didn’t fix it either. Then I read on a website about the saslauthd daemon not running. I restarted the service and everything worked as normal 
My guess is that an Ubuntu update stopped the saslauthd daemon but did not restart it.
Quintin, a friend of mine, showed me a way to readout the sensors of my EEE Box in Ubuntu server.
The first step is to install the lm-sensors package
Then you need to load the w83627ehf kernel module using
In order to have your sensors detected launch the command below and follow the steps shown (basically you can just press [enter] to each question).
Now you can readout your sensors by using the command
Remember if you want to load the w83627ehf module every time the sysem reboots, you need to update your /etc/rc.local with the line:
readout of my sensors
I wanted to switch from Kubutu to Xubuntu, this all went fine except the splash screen. The startup splash still was the Kubuntu one. In order to change this to the following:
Select the option of your Xubuntu splash screen. Reload the spash with:
After installing Xubuntu in VMWare I noticed that it had the wrong timezone set up. In order to change the timezone execute (as root) the following:
A while ago I posted about how one can install Kubuntu on a netbook without cd-rom device. Although there were some issues on the NC10 still it worked pretty neat. Two days ago Kubuntu Jaunty (9.10) was released. I updated my NC10 with this version and this is what I discovered:
The new Kubuntu
Keir Thomas has written a nice ebook called: Ubuntu Pocket Guide and Reference. You can download this ebook for free or order it for $ 9,94 at Amazon.
Ubuntu Pocket Guide and reference cover
I have three computers: MacBook Pro, Netbook and a PC. They all have their own data. It would be very nice if I had all my files on just one location (e.g. my server). The only problem is: how do I access these files in a secure way. SSH is an option, but does not quite fit my needs. The solution: NFS over a VPN. NFS fulfilled all my needs, but I do not want to open NFS to whole world through my router.
A VPN, gives me access to my home network and makes it possible for me to access all my files in a secure way. My server (an Asus EEE Box) runs Ubuntu Server, and there is a Linux version of OpenVPN! I thought installing OpenVPN should not be that hard; I just need to find the right tutorial.
I noticed that I connect a lot to my server in order to retrieve files, so I thought it would be useful to connect through NFS instead of Samba. Installing NFS on my server was a piece of cake. Just follow this tutorial and you are done.
The only thing you need to do then is manage your shares in the /etc/exports file. So far so good. But when I want to connect I receive an error which tells me I use the wrong username and/or password. Funny enough the whole system did not even prompt for any of these credentials.
NFS connection error in OSX