Windows XP goes to the grave

Which other company in the world would end support for a product currently in use by 64% of the Internet connected computers? I know, Vista is the shit… just remove “the” and I totally agree. Granted a operating system must evolve but the users seems to disagree about the direction it is taking. The only hope we have is that Windows 7 will be all what Vista wasn’t, that is cheap, simple, secure and efficient. They lost me to Ubuntu a long time ago, I only use Windows when forced to for different work related reasons. Soon many will realize that Windows isn’t much simpler to use for the average computer owner, only reason they still have it is tradition… and the fact that working with Microsoft Office from home is something employers almost assume you can do (and keep it updated to the latest version mind you or you might as well go fish).

Source: http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/07/2321248

Ubuntu JeOS

Am I the only one who get’s a little funny feeling inside whenever I find some really smart software or combinations thereof.

I just found JeOS which is a boiled down server version of Ubuntu streamlined to use in virtual environments! I tried it out and it was amazing, installed with a full LAMP-server (Linux, Apache2, MySQL 5.0 and PHP5) the end disc usage in my VMWare configuration was 720 Mb and it could run on as low as 128 Mb of RAM! That’s some really neat software!!

Remote Desktop through a firewall: hardcore version.

I wanted to run Remote Desktop but a firewall was blocking access. However.. the SSH port was open.

[que mission impossible theme]

I’m on a Windows-machine and while I can log onto OpenSSH I can’t forward X here.

I install VMWare and Ubuntu in a virutal machine.

I start Ubuntu, and run ssh -X my.machine.outside.the.firewall.com

On the command prompt I’m now at an external Linux machine, from here I run: rdesktop the.remote.desktop.machine.com

Voilá!