Archive for July, 2009
Karmic or Krap?
I’ve upgraded my Eeeeeeepc to Karmic (yes, it’s early). It seems to have mostly worked fine which is good.
The login screen now has highly visible shutdown buttons etc which is nice. However it also looks horrible (I really liked the jaunty one) and displays my user details (the full name, not username) [...]
Posted: July 23rd, 2009 under Life Rants.
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Remote desktop on Linux
As all geeks know, we have to help others less geeky with their computers.
As a Linux geek, this means helping out my parents with their Ubuntu PC. So how do I do this:
First step is to tweak their ADSL router to allow me access via ssh. This is very router specific but you [...]
Posted: July 22nd, 2009 under Linux, My setup.
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