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Remote controlling a Linux machine

Friday, February 5th, 2010

One of best things in Linux is that it gives you for free features that, in other operating systems, are supposed to be limited to professional versions.

One of the first things I learnt about Linux has been how to remote control it. Not surprising if you think the first Linux machine I regularly started working with (PIII550) is a headless one.

 

Installing OpenSSH daemon

 

In order to remote access a Linux machine a SSH server daemon must be installed (OpenSSH in this case). In Ubuntu this is just matter of a single apt-get command

sudo apt-get install openssh-server

once install completed you can access the remote machine by typing

ssh remote-machine-ip-address

Tired of command line?

 

Remote control in Linux is not limited to command line. If you type from your client machine:

ssh -X remote-machine-ip-address

then, while in the remote machine, you might need to set the DISPLAY environment variable:

export DISPLAY=local-machine-ip-address:0

you can then run your X11 applications

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New toy on the desk: Nokia 5800 XM

Monday, January 25th, 2010

After some years I finally decided to buy a new mobile phone. Sorry no Linux here, Android based phone were still far out of my planned budget. My choice has so fell on the Nokia 5800 XM simply because it had all the features I was asking for (GPS, MP3 player, WIFI connectivity … and doing phone calls too, of course) at the lowest price.

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Mounting a permanent Samba share

Wednesday, January 13th, 2010

I recently bought a network disks in order to use it as external storage for all my computers. I so immediately felt the need of an easier way to access to Samba shared folders. This is even more evident in my desktop computer where Xubuntu standard file manager (Thunar) doesn’t even support Samba shared folders.

 

Mount a samba share in fstab

 

I decided to permanently mount the network disk shares configuration file, I followed this how-to from Ubuntu wiki with only a few changes.

I first installed smbfs file system

sudo apt-get install smbfs

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Happy 2010!

Thursday, December 31st, 2009

one trecenquintrigintillion times … Happy New Year!
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Switching to Xubuntu

Wednesday, December 30th, 2009

  In spite of my first impressions after some weeks of real use my desktop computer seems to be slowed down by the latest Ubuntu upgrade. The system is still functional but, while using some application, like Firefox, it starts loosing in fluidity. I so decided to try changing the desktop manager installing XFCE in place of Gnome.

Installation

Installing XFCE on Ubuntu is just a one-command matter:

sudo apt-get install xubuntu-desktop

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