Computers may be assiged a static IP address or assigned one dynamically. Typically servers and institutions will use a static IP which will not change each time u get connected. Workstation will use Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) for IP address assignment. It is more easily to find a system if the IP address does not change and is static.

There seems to be a known bug with the Gnome Network Manager included with the Ubuntu 8.10 release that resets any static ip address settings that are set manually when the system is rebooted reverting back to a DHCP setup. These steps will remove the Gnome Network Manager and help you manually setup the required files for your static network configuration.

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If you want to setup a Static IP Address in your system , Modify the file /etc/network/interfaces. If your First Ethernet Interface is eth0 ,

Static routing is the term used to refer to the manual method used to set up routing. An administrator enters routes into the router using configuration commands. This method has the advantage of being predictable, and simple to set up. It is easy to manage in small networks but does not scale well.

Wkhtmltopdf is a command line utility for converting webpage / html to PDF.
Features
* Convert web pages into PDF documents using webkit
* Adding headers and footers (static version only)
* TOC generation (static version only)

NetworkManager program provided in Ubuntu 8.10 is mainly aiming to provide a simplified Internet connection. NetworkManager is best for home users and simple internet users. If you want to use a fixed IP address it makes problem, the static IP setting will be work only upto the next restart. After reboot you can't see the Fixed IP. It will reset to DHCP.

The Gnome Network Manager is really buggy and a lot of people are having trouble configuring the network connexion and getting it to work. Rather it’s wireless, static or dinamic ip, it’s just a pain in the a**.

This tutorial explains how you can configure Apache2 to set the Expires HTTP header and the max-age directive of the Cache-Control HTTP header of static files (such as images, CSS and Javascript files) to a date in the future so that these files will be cached by your visitors' browsers.