Source: The Original Developer.
(Launchpad link):
A dynamic tunnel SSH multiplexer. When heavily using a Dynamic SSH tunnel, this application will open concurrent SSH tunnels to multiplex the load. This is useful when using torrent connections locally, or when using your computer to share internet access via the dynamic proxy.
To install on Ubuntu Karmic:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:martineve/ppa
sudo apt-get [...]

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For $100/year CrashPlan will store an *unlimited* amount of data and keep it for you in case of local failure of your storage devices. The excellent feature here is that they support Linux (rare for online storage offerings), Mac as well as Windows. If you plan to backup more than 100GB, they offer and recommend [...]

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By default, the newer versions of Ubuntu (9.04 and up) now auto-edit the MOTD. This annoyed me, so I researched how to stop that, since I prefer my own MOTDs and I’m quite particular about what I am presented with when SSH’ing into a box.
Ubuntu is running an application called “landscape-common”.
More on this application here. [...]

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I have tried many types of encryption, and I’ve had issues with them all. For many reasons, some programs make it too complicated to access the data, while others require special software to be made available on the system so that the data could be accessed. Others require that fixed-size containers be used, which can [...]

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I use this command to change the resolution of my EEE 1000HE from 1024×600 to 1024×1024 which allows me to work well with large web pages, though I must pan-n-scan the desktop (which runs past the borders of the monitor), it’s worth it.
Not every EEE PC is built the same, nor do they use the [...]

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This is a good Linux site and has a good collection of shell scripts. Enjoy.
They’re sorted newest-first, so click the <previous entries> at the bottom of the page to see the prior scripts.
Here’s also a few links on learning the basics of shell scripting:
IBM’s extensive site on the subject.
Linuxcommand.org

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For Debian-based distros, this utility (not related to the ‘nice‘ command) will limit the cpu usage of a program. It works with multiple cores as well.
Simply sudo apt-get install cpulimit. More info can be found here.

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Ctrl+Alt+Backspace (the shortcut which was used to restart the X server) has to be enabled in a different way starting in Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala).
Using GNOME

Get to the System->Preferences->Keyboard menu.
Select the “Layouts” tab and click on the “Layout Options” button.
Then select “Key sequence to kill the X server” and enable “Control + Alt + Backspace”.

Click [...]

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Pretty straight forward stuff in this article, but it’s a good reference on how to use the most-excellent tools in an Ubuntu Live-CD to recover drives (whether they be Windows hard disks or Linux-flavored data) with damaged data or corrupted boot sectors and easily make it bootable and/or usable again.
I recently had to run a [...]

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How to run 32-bit code in 64-bit Linux.

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Execute (3) scripts. I suppose this could be done all in one script, but sometimes one wants to examine the results after each phase. This will actually work (in principle) to do any command on all files in a directory that have a predictable pattern.
Don’t forget to chmod +x ./script-name on each.
Script 1
#!/bin/bash
#
# Dump m4a [...]

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I had to interrupt the break for this bit, Google has taken it upon itself to write its own implementation of NX server, which could well allow for an excellent way to remote into X sessions with great speed, blowing away VNC or running X sessions remotely.
While FreeNX and NoMachine’s NX server are out there, [...]

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…will be taking a bit of a hiatus. Back in about 8 weeks.

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Nearly every carrier allows you to email a cell phone. The email comes in as an SMS message, to which the phone can then reply (comes back as an email reply to the sender).
To do this simply check out the carrier listing and look for your carrier. Then email TheNumber [at] carrier’s-doman.com (example) and you’ll [...]

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The G1 has a chip in it that handles h264 encoded video (the same video codec used for YouTube videos), though format and scaling when transcoding video from other formats was a problem for me. With a lot of research and tweaking, the commands below seem to work very well for transcoding any video source [...]

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A nice article from TuxRadar on spicing up your LUG and tips on ensuring LUG success.

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Here’s a pretty good list of less known open source software that one might find very helpful.
Top 100 open source gems part 1
Top 100 open source gems part 2
While not complete and listing too many games (I’ve never seen Linux as a very good gaming platform), it’s still worthy of a post.

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Simply type this in your Linux command line (assuming Python is installed, and it usually is on many Linux desktops).
python -m SimpleHTTPServer &
This will launch a very simple web server in the directory from which the command was run, and will establish that directory as root. You can then access it from your local machine [...]

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Interesting article about .screenrc profiles that offer some unique status bars with GNU Screen under Ubuntu 9.04
For any that are interested, this is my .screenrc
hardstatus alwayslastline
hardstatus string ‘%{= kG}[ %{G}%H %{g}][%= %{=kw}%?%-Lw%?%{r}(%{W}%n*%f%t%?(%u)%?%{r})%{w}%?%+Lw%?%?%= %{g}][%{B}%Y-%m-%d %{W}%c %{g}]‘
#
# Default screens
# syntax: screen -t NameOfScreen ScreenNumber ShellCommand
screen -t “Work SSH” 0 /home/name/workssh
screen -t “Home 1″ 1
screen -t “Home 2″ [...]

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When SSH’ing into a linux box, you may want to run a VM headless (that is, not dependent on the console X session). TO RDP into your windows box (assuming you are running a Windows VM over Linux), you’ll want to be sure to engage your -L port:ip-address-of-VirtualBoxHost:port, port forwarding.
Assuming you have VirtualBox remote port [...]

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This blew me away at the Ted conference 2009 — worth watching.  Dr. Pattie Maes of MIT Labs is pioneering research in 6th sense technology, that in her words, “is a wearable gestural interface that augments the physical world around us with digital information and lets us use natural hand gestures to interact with that [...]

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From The Economist:
“HOW wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.” So said Niels Bohr, one of the founders of quantum mechanics. Since its birth in the 1920s, physicists and philosophers have grappled with the bizarre consequences that his theory has for reality, including the fundamental truth [...]

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Note:- Before Converting make a backup copy of your vmware image
Solution 1
We are going to use qemu-img tool to this.QEMU disk image utility
First Install qemu  qemu-img is included with qemu package using the following command
sudo apt-get install qemu
Convert a VMWare Image to VirtualBox Image
Convert VMWare image called whatever.vmdk to /tmp/debian.bin (or a path of your [...]

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You are probably all too familiar with the situation – you are trying to unmount a drive, but keep getting told by your system that it’s busy. But what application is tying it up? A quick one-liner will tell you:
lsof +D /media/disk1
This will return the command and process ID of any tasks currently accessing the [...]

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Repost: Source: Ubuntu Geek.
People sometimes have to do a reinstall of their Ubuntu system for various reasons (been playing/experimenting with configuration/drivers/other packages or just because something is badly broken) but remembering all the extra packages you have installed can be a chore – but here is the simple solution:
On your old system (assuming it is [...]

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