An interesting article on Slashdot pointing to an article at gadgetzone.com.au which points out what features Windows 7 must implement.
I'm obviously bias, but I think the author is picking out what he likes most about Linux? It's funny how a few years ago, Linux had to be more like Windows, but now, Windows needs to be more like Linux.
The mail command is a powerful command used to manage your local mail on a *nix box. I use the mail command in (k)ubuntu frequently and have root's mail forwarded to my account on my boxes.
To use mail, you'll have to install the mailx package in (k)ubuntu.
$ sudo apt-get install mailx
When you login to your linux box via the command line you might see a message such as this:
jsteelsmith@localhost-10:~$ ssh user@example.com
Linux jacob-desktop 2.6.24-19-generic #1 SMP Wed Jun 18 14:43:41 UTC 2008 i686
Last month, Feisty (Ubuntu 6.10) reached end of life. This means that support is no longer offered, updates are no longer being released and, much to my surprise, the repositories are gone. Well, not gone, but moved.
"Then it told me to reboot my machine. Why should I do that? I reboot every night -- why should I reboot at that time?
So I did the reboot because it INSISTED on it. Of course that meant completely getting rid of all my Outlook state."
--Email from Bill Gates regarding Windows Usability 2003
Full text of email can be viewed at the Seattle PI's website.
Yakuake is a quake style, terminator type terminal emulator, or console for KDE.
With the rising popularity of terminator for gnome, which is very cool, I love that KDE has an equivalent.
An unknown Amazon Basin tribe was photographed recently along the border with Peru. It is incredible that tribes still exist completely isolated from "modern" life and these pictures are just astounding.
I was somewhat perturbed by two local radio hosts who insisted that the war on drugs was a waste of money and prostitution should be legal. The war on drugs is necessary and is about more than just a hippie smoking a joint. I doubt any recovering addict is supporting the legalization of drugs. And saving one or two families to me is more important than any amount of money.
I guess the host didn't see it that way:
Remote desktop, or using a remote session, is a very important part of advanced computing. The ability to do this securely is important as well.
Using ssh, Xephyr and a light weight desktop manager, an encrypted, secure, fairly fast remote desktop setup is fairly easy to implement.
First, you'll need to install SSH on the remote machine:
$ sudo apt-get install openssh-server
