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Looking for a free ftp server? Well there is an openssh client / server called: SSHWindows or FileZilla .  FileZilla is a free FTP client (many OS) and server (for windows only). The FileZilla Client is a fast and reliable cross-platform FTP, FTPS and SFTP client with lots of useful features and an intuitive interface. Among others, the features of FileZilla include the following: Easy to use Supports FTP, FTP over SSL/TLS (FTPS) and SSH File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) Cross-platform. Runs on Windows, Linux, *BSD, OSX and more Available in many languages Supports resume and transfer of large files >4GB Powerful Site Manager and transfer queue Drag & drop support Configurable Speed limits File name filters Network configuration wizard Remote file editing Keep-alive FTP-Proxy support

See also The table of equivalents / replacements / analogs of Windows software in Linux . SDelete To zero out free space use SDelete http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/Security/SDelete.mspx from Microsoft Technet .   Example: sdelete -c c:temp Putty Use Xming portable PuTTY to give you a tight X Window Server as well. Go here for the original PuTTY .  Xming - X Window Server JWhich JWhich is a program to find Java resources such as class files or property files. Just as the Unix which command finds executable files by searching the PATH , JWhich finds Java classes by searching the CLASSPATH . Monitoring Tools Nagios: http://www.nagios.org/ Zenoss:  http://www.zenoss.com/ Perforce A simple Backup Script: $ cat bin/backup.sh #!/usr/bin/sh cd /cygdrive/c/projects rm -f /cygdrive/c/projects/*.zip for d in `ls -1`; do jar cfM $d.zip $d; done cd /cygdrive/C/tu/Documentation # rm -f DocumentationBuild.zip jar cfM /cygdrive/c/projects/D...

The following sections is information related to the installation of Linux to a IBM Thinkpad R40 / R41. This is a laptop that I built for my brother. BIOS Updates It's worth checking from time to time for BIOS updates and so on at IBM . There are reasonably full technical specifications from IBM are here . Page keys There are a couple of special keys above the left and right arrow keys, which I gather are bound to Forward and Back in Internet Explorer under Windows. Using xev, I identified their keycodes as 233 and 234, and I put the following into my ~/.Xmodmap: keycode 233 = Next_Virtual_Screen keycode 234 = Prev_Virtual_Screen More references http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/ThinkWiki https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LaptopTestingTeam/ThinkpadR40-2681 http://www.ecn.wfu.edu/~cottrell/thinkpad/tpr40/ http://priyadi.net/archives/2004/12/20/gentoo-linux-under-thinkpad-t41p/ Wireless Broadband using Huawei E220 HOWTO: 3G Connection to Internet with Huawei E220 System Re...

The following guide is adapted from a guide found on the Ubuntu forms here . I have updated it with information from my own experiences setting this up for use with the Australian 3G Vodafone network on a kubuntu system, with kernel 2.6.24-19-generic . Installation This HOWTO is intended to get a Huawei E220 modem working properly any time you plug it in. I've documented what worked for me with the hope it works for you too: Open a terminal and make sure you have the tools you will need: sudo apt-get install wget libusb-dev build-essential Get the source code for the driver program huawei-e220 : wget http://download386.mediafire.com/ddemxzdoxslg/l5jtywnmycn/huawei-e220.tar.gz Compile it: tar zxvf huawei-e220.tar.gz cd huawei-e220 ./setup.sh The setup script installs the driver program and creates a udev rule which ensures that the huawei-e220 driver is loaded every time the modem is plugged in. It also runs a quick test, u...