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A very simple script for restarting NetworkManager on kubuntu 9.04:

#!/bin/bash
killall NetworkManager
sleep 2
/usr/sbin/NetworkManager –pid-file /var/run/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.pid

Remember that you need root priviledges for executing it, so invoque it through sudo.
This script may be useful if you have problems with NetworkManager like me. I’ve had problems in the past with iwl3945 driver that comes with kubuntu 9.04, but those [...]

I upgraded my Acer laptop from kubuntu 9.04 to 9.10 some weeks ago, and since them I was having lot of problems, some minor ones, but other actually serious: random hangs, devices that dissapear (specially sound ones but also wifi), and returns again after next reboot, keyboard that does not work anymore, etc.
This morning my [...]

I’ve been using rdiff-backup for sometime for my own projects, and I’m actually very happy with the way it works with incremental backups of three of my servers and two desktop computers. But there’s a thing that really sucks: when a connection to a remote host fails, next time it will try to regress all [...]

Most usb mass storage media devices, including digital cameras, use a FAT32 filesystem to store its data. That’s mean that even when you just use GNU/Linux filesystems like ext2 or ext3 in your system, if you have an USB pendrive, camera, etc. you’ll be using also FAT32 filesystem within those devices.
I’ve a Nikon D60 but [...]

Just for the record, two articles on how to configure on GNU/LiNUX a Postfix server as secure smtp server with TLS, and another one about configuring a Courier server with SSL (both IMAP and POP3), and how to test them that I’ve found specially clear:
SSL/TLS server Configuration Tutorial

I must find the manner of use the same GNUCash files from different machines, one with GNU/Linux and another one with Windows. I’ll put those files in a host that may be accessed by the two machines through SSH.
So, the first thing we need is remote SSH access to that file system. As with GNU/Linux [...]