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Debian eth0, eth1, eth2, in Virtualbox or VMware Virtual machines when copying

By jacob | Published: November 13, 2009
Debian uses udev. Udev handles mapping MAC’s to the appropriate /dev/eth(X) file. If you copy a Virtual machine, Udev will remember the MAC address of the old NIC. When you copy the machine, the virtual host usually generates a new MAC address for the VM. Udev will assign the new Device to eth1, eth2, and so [...]
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Linux command line bandwidth monitor

By jacob | Published: July 29, 2009
You can find out how much bandwidth your linux machine is using with a simple tool called “bwm-ng”. In Debian, install it with aptitude install bwm-ng Then, just type ‘bwm-ng’ in the command line. It will give you something like this: bwm-ng v0.6 (probing every 5.000s), press 'h' for help input: /proc/net/dev type: rate - [...]
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Install backupexec 12.5 agent on Debian Lenny

By jacob | Published: May 12, 2009
The path to it is BEWS_12.5.2213_LINUX-UNIX-MAC-SAP_AGENTS.tar.gz\BEWS_12.5.2213_LINUX-UNIX-MAC-SAP_AGENTS.tar\pkgs\Linux\VRTSralus.tar.gz\VRTSralus.tar\VRTSralus-12.5.2213-0.i386.deb Unfortunately, the Deb package doesn’t specify It’s dependencies. You need to manually install the libstdc++5 package. aptitude install libstdc++5 You can follow the rest of the install here: http://insanelabs.com/debian/linux-symantec-backup-exec-12-and-debian-etch-3264/
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Join Debian Lenny to Active Directory using Samba

By jacob | Published: May 1, 2009
If you install GNOME on Debian and intend to use it as a server, first thing you should do is remove the network-manager and network-manager-gnome packages. This tool can be helpful on a desktop, but since we are tweaking DNS, IP addresses, and perhaps even NIC bonding, the network-manager can screw up your settings. aptitude purge [...]
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Rip and convert to MP3 files in Debian Lenny

By jacob | Published: March 23, 2009
To create an MP3 audio file in Lenny, you need to install the proper package to encode them. I suggest you add the “debian-multimedia” repository while you are at it. Edit your  /etc/apt/sources.list and add: deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org lenny main run aptitude update then install the gstreamer lame encoder: aptitude install gstreamer0.10-lame Then you are done. You can launch soundconverter and convert [...]
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