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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 [...]

If you plan to use firefox as default browser on kubuntu, you should go to “System Settings/Predefined Applications/Web Browser” and add:
/usr/bin/firefox
As web browser.
But if you want to open URLs also in a new window, you should use instead:
/usr/bin/firefox -new-window
This is a good idea if you use Show Desktop functionality, otherwise if you go to the [...]

As I told in previous entry, I should downgrade to kubuntu 9.04 after an upgrade to 9.10 due several problems with nvidia drivers. Although one thing that I’ve found better in 9.10 than in 9.04 was the iwl3945 driver for my wifi hardware. In 9.04 the driver is flawly and gives a lot of problems, [...]

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 [...]

I needed an account that have the ability to get root privileges for running certain scripts without requesting for a password -it’s an unatended process-, so as you know the best way to do this on GNU/LiNUX is “sudo” command. To set up this, on kubuntu -and other ubuntu variants, and surely other distributions- there’s [...]

Or an alternative title: “Be very careful when you cut and paste from web pages”.
I’m a bit tired of doing var_dump debug on PHP, as today I debug lot of PHP lines every day and use complexer architectures as Joomla! CMS than simpler LAMP, I need to set up Eclipse to work with XDebug [...]

I bought a router D-Link DSL-G624T about a year ago. I was satisfied with the results and its configuration options, but at the end of last week its WiFi interface started to fail. Before I send it to the seller for repairing, I did a last hour test and it was working fine It’s [...]

I’ve wrote this script to restore rdiff-backups with regular users conserving the files ownerships.
The problem is that in modern UNiX systems -like GNU/LiNUX- regular users cannot change the owner of files because this is a security thread, so to allow that rdiff-backup could restore file ownership it must run as superuser -root-.
This script acts as [...]

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

Just a note for those whose has find that warning message in his apache web server: Apache’s ServerName directive IS CASE SENSITIVE.
[warn] RSA server certificate CommonName (CN) `MARZOA.COM’ does NOT match server name!?
I had “ServerName marzoa.com” directive on my configuration file for that virtual host, but that was not working. The last thing that I [...]