Archive | July 20, 2014

First time driving a manual car on the Highway

stick-shiftToday was my 5th lesson out of 10, learning how to drive a manual car.

My instructor took me up Bathurst, on to Highway 7 and then up the 404 Highway.

Even though I stalled the car once, it was awesome.

Driving with speed in the higher gears turns out to be much easier than getting started from a stop in first gear.

 

 

XRDP

Having recently discovered XRDP, I think this method of remote desktop into a Linux based system is just awesome!

It provides a ‘Microsoft Remote Desktop’ compatible Terminal server, which you can connect using the native Windows RDP Client.

Other options to remotely connect to a Linux Machine include:

  1. VNC
  2. X2GO
  3. NX – FreeNX
  4. X11 forwarding – though I have never tried this method before
  5. SPICE

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Arch Linux

 

Best known for its bleeding edge software packages, package manager, and online documentation, I will be taking a closer look Arch Linux soon.

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