I’m a big fan of Ubuntu and I’m excited for the new 9.04 RC release. Keep in mind this is a “for testing only” release. Currently I run Ubuntu 8.10 for my main desktop in my home/office. I’m generally late to upgrade and prefer to play with new releases in a Virtual Environment (or, [...]
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VirtualBox
April 7, 2009 – 5:35 am
I know Sun’s VirtualBox has been out for awhile now. However, when it came out, I already have VMware running and had plenty of VMs operational. Recently, I upgraded to a new workstation and switched OSes. Instead of going with VMware, I tried VirtualBox.
To be frank, I love it.
Other than a few quirks, it works [...]
COTD: netstat - Print network connections, routing tables, interface statistics, masquerade connections, and multicast memberships
February 28, 2009 – 11:27 am
The COTD for today is the netstat command.
The netstat command prints network connections, routing tables, interface statistics, and a bunch of other goodies that are helpful in managing any UNIX box.
One of the common uses of netstat is to show the systems routing table. This is done by the “netstat -r” command.
$ netstat -nr
Kernel IP [...]