Archive for August 20th, 2007
Wolf Den Campout
We went camping with just the kids and families in the Wolf Den. We went to Jackson Lake Campground. It was alot of fun and totally worth it even if it was only for one night.
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X11 Forwarding, Exceed, Putty and SSH Tunneling
Wow. Why haven’t I done this sooner??
For at least a year, I have had a license for Exceed at work. I have never thought about using it too much except for the lone Oracle install since Oracle wants/needs java to install (which pisses me off, but that’s for another post). Anyway, our new DBS who’s kind of new to the AIX environment asked how to run the oracle installer and thankfully he had a consultant with him that knew how, but then I got to thinking, why haven’t I done this with my laptop?
Started messing around and ran a couple apps and now I find it REALLY useful. For example, I run Banshee as a podcast catcher on my laptop. I now run it on my Windows machine via Exceed and I can use the BIG monitor and be able to navigate things so much easier.
The best part is it looks like Banshee is running directly on my desktop even though only the display is running on my desktop with the client running on my laptop.
Even better….when you start something playing on the desktop, it comes out on my laptop’s speakers! Now all I have to do is figure out how to get bluetooth headphones working on Linux and I can use it to listen to podcasts instead of a iPod.
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