Advanced Software/ Package Management with Wajig

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 [...]

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Advanced Networking – BGP and OSPF with Quagga

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 [...]

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Network Interface examples

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)
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# A “#” character in the very first column makes the rest [...]

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3D Effects in Ubuntu

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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Linux Networking

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 [...]

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