Purpose: as a quick diagnostic tool, sometimes it’s nice to know exactly how fast two machines can (theoretically) be connected. I was having some slow downs on my NAS and using these command line tools, was able to determine that it was my NIC (and not my hard drives) that was causing the slow down. I learned this from a thread at slashdot.
How To: Network Trash on Ubuntu File Server (NAS) with SFTP (SSH + Fuse) and AFP (netatalk)
Purpose: create a Network Trash System for a Ubuntu Linux file server (NAS). Reason being: by default, files deleted on file server go away permanently (as they do when you run rm from the command line). On my Mac (OS 10.4) and on Ubuntu (7.04) if I connect either via AFP (through netatalk) or SSH (SFTP through Fuse) and delete a file, that file is gone forever! This is a problem, because often I find I want them back. Enter: libtrash!