In Part I of this two-part tutorial we discovered options on remoting between Linux and Windows machines. Plus we setup the VNC solution on each platform. Now we'll continue by configuring our router for connections over the Internet. Additionally, we'll see how to encrypt the connections and how to remote into the native display. Let's get started!
Read more »Remote Desktop Between Ubuntu/Linux and Windows, Part II
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Response to the proposed Canonical Notification System
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To date, there has been no usability testing or validation of the proposed CNS. The following is a summary of a literature review I conducted to help evaluate the proposal and its impact on Kubuntu and KDE.
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21 of the Best Free Web Content Management Systems
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A web content management system (WCMS) is software designed to simplify the publication of Web content. In particular, it enables content creators to submit content without requiring technical knowledge of HTML or the uploading of files. A CMS is most commonly used in creating an intranet or in establishing a presence on the Web.
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An Explanation of .bashrc and .bash_profile
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Both the ~/.bashrc and ~/.bash_profile are scripts that might be executed when bash is invoked. The ~/.bashrc file gets executed when you run bash using an interactive shell that is not a login shell. The ~/.bash_profile only gets executed during a login shell. What does this all mean?
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10 Things a Power User Will Love about Linux
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If you’re a power user but haven’t yet given Linux a shot, you should definitely try it out. Here are 10 things that you will love about Linux over Windows or OS X.
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Intel Graphics Regressions In Ubuntu 9.04?
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A month ago we compared Intel's graphics performance between Ubuntu 8.10 and the latest Ubuntu 9.04 daily snapshot at the time. With those tests we found Intel's performance had degraded significantly. However, with many new graphics packages having been released since then, we have carried out some additional tests this morning to look at where the Intel Linux graphics performance stands today.
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Spideroak: Secure Offsite Backups For Linux
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Offsite backups are essential for important data, because we all know the perils of keeping everything in one location: fire, flood, theft, power surges, power failures, permatemps refuse to take it anymore and go berserk-- it's just wise redundancy.
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Fixing an Ubuntu bug with Bazaar
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Yesterday as part of Ubuntu Developer Week I gave a session entitled "Bazaar for Packaging". At the last minute I decided to change the session somewhat, so that it would show how things would work if you were to use bzr to modify an Ubuntu package once Distributed Development is fully up and running.
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Open-sourcers get with the git
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With the power of ten men, Linus reacted swiftly. Rather than cry about it like a little bitch, he created his own source control system called git. In a self-deprecating style that only a developer on Linus's level could pull off, Linus said, "I'm an egotistical bastard, and I name all my projects after myself. First Linux, now git.”
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OpenSSH: The Poor Man's SOCKS Proxy
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Just when I think I know everything I need to know about OpenSSH, I end up learning something new and tremendously useful. Today, that would be the -D argument
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Triple booting from pen drive
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A tutorial on how to create a bootable pendrive with 3 distros.
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Linux kernel needs more modularity for bare-metal hypervisor viability
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I wrote previously about how Linux is notionally a bare-metal hypervisor. But let me point out a sticking point w.r.t. the Linux kernel being considered a viable bare-metal hypervisor: it's HUGE!
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Apt-Cacher-NG - HTTP download proxy for software packages
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Apt-Cacher-ng is a software package that keeps a cache, on the disk, of Debian/Ubuntu Packages and Release files. When an apt-get like client issues a request for a file, Apt-Cacher intercepts it and if the file is already cached it serves it to the client immediately, otherwise it fetches the file from the Internet, saves it on the cache, and then serves it to the client.
Read more »GNU Rush 1.5
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"Hello, I am pleased to announce the release of GNU Rush version 1.5. GNU Rush is a restricted user shell, designed for sites providing limited remote access to their resources..."
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How-To: Virtual emails accounts with Postfix and Dovecot
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This tutorial will explain how to run a mail server with virtual domains and users using a MySQL backend to store email informations.
Postfix will be our SMTP server, Dovecot will be handling IMAP (optionally one could configure POP3 also) so that users can retrieve their email.
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