Changing Timezone on Ubuntu

dpkg-reconfigure tzdata
 
http://webonrails.com/2009/07/15/change-timezone-of-ubuntu-machine-from-command-line/

Disk Check during Shutdown on Ubuntu (and not during startup)

Just installed autofsck. This goes into the "my base installations" list. 

Juniper VPN on Ubuntu

There are certain issues with Juniper on Ubuntu. The following getaround works well for me though:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=10346501&postcount=416

Some Windows Commands

From command prompt, Taskkill /pid to kill a task. 


Tasklist /v to get a list of running tasks. 


netstat -ano to get the list of used network ports and the pid using the port.