Archive for June, 2008
Enable Remote Desktop and Auto Login on Ubuntu
Ubuntu has a built in Remote Desktop functionality that allows you to connect to your machine from a remote location. This is not enabled by default but can be easily enabled. If the Ubuntu machine is restarted you cannot remote desktop into in because it would be waiting at the login screen. This too can be fixed with the auto login mechanism.
No commentsUnix Utils on Windows
Ask any Linux/Unix administrator if they could perform their daily tasks without ‘grep’ and their answer would be an emphatic NO!!!. Windows lacks many of the unix commands/utilities that are very simple yet highly efficient. Luckily there is a collection of GNU Unix-like utilities that are available for Windows.
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