One of the cool things about today Internet is how we can use several computers in different locations as if we were our single home computer (...) The solution I recently found was to create a free account at hasfiles.com. They give you 100Mb for free and let you access those files via webdav. Using davfs2, I can mount it as a partition on my system.

Many times you might not be sure about which shell you are currently using. Especially if you are not on your system and logging into someone else’s, or maybe ssh’ing into a remote server. Worry not, because here are few simple commands that you can use to find out which shell you are using currently.

Network Address Translation (NAT) is one of the basic functions of a circuit level gateway. The simple purpose of NAT is to hide the IP addresses of a private network from the outside world.

"I am pleased to announce the release of GNU ed 1.2. GNU ed is an 8-bit clean, more or less POSIX-compliant implementation of the standard Unix line editor..."

"The GNU Compiler Collection version 4.3.3 has been released. GCC 4.3.3 is a bug-fix release containing fixes for regressions and serious bugs in GCC 4.3.2. This release is available from the FTP servers listed at: ..."

Now you can use grub2 in Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 Etch. Grub2 supports high quality background images. Grub2 also supports booting an OS in an ext4 partition.

"Lighttpd, affectionately known as Lighty is an extremely efficient and lightweight web server. I run Apache 2.2 on all my servers, but have been using Lighttpd for a couple years now to stream video files for a very popular web site I run. Lighttpd has a flv streaming module which can handle more advanced streaming than the usual progressive http streaming.

"I keep a Emacs mode for editing Django templates (specifically HTML Django templates) on Launchpad. There are more people interested in enhancing the support for Django on Emacs, and I'd like to help. But first, I want to discuss what is needed from a editing mode..."