Info Linux and Microcontroller

Angry IP Scanner is a IP and Port Scanner widely used by Network Administrators and Hackers. It is an open-source and cross-platform network scanner designed to be fast and simple to use. It scans IP addresses and Ports. It has lots other features also.

Features
It can scan IP addresses with in a given range,
It can also scan their ports.
It can be used for finding a host alive by just pinging.
It can be used for resolving the host name, finding MAC Address.

It also has additional features, like NetBIOS information computer name, workgroup name, and currently logged in Windows user), web server detection, customizable openers, etc.

Installation
Download version 3.0-beta3 Here

$ sudo dpkg -i ipscan_3.0-beta3_i386.deb

Wonderful Ubuntu Trick

Easiest way to install Ubuntu server Applications like Apache, PHP, Mysql (LAMP), JAVA, DNS and Everything You need .

open a terminal and type

$ sudo tasksel

now you can see a text based installation screen will then allow you to install a LAMP server, Samba, Tomcat Java server, OpenSSH, DNS server and lot of other stuff.

Properly formated man pages in Mozilla Firefox (or any browser) is a dream of linux users, if it has a search facility? great!!!

First you have to install man2html using Synaptic or apt

$ sudo apt-get install man2html

Then open Mozilla Firefox and do the following

Go to Bookmarks > Organize Bookmarks;
Open a bookmark folder then right-click and chose New Bookmark;
Name the new bookmark Man;
In the Location field paste this line:

http://localhost/cgi-bin/man/man2html?query=%s

In the Keyword field type man;
Click Add.

Now you try man ls in address bar of your browser

You can try

http://localhost/cgi-bin/man/man2html?query=

also, before adding bookmark just cut and paste the above to your browsers address bar

http://ubuntuhcl.org/ will give a comprehensive Ubuntu Hardware Database

After the installation of ubuntu 8.10 I have loss the sound in my Intel G33 Motherboard.

See the steps to solve the problem

Download OSS Driver
( http://www.4front-tech.com/release/oss-linux-4.0-1016_i386.deb)

$ sudo dpkg -i oss-linux-4.0-1016_i386.deb

Reboot the system