Top Bands of the moment in no particula…
Top Bands of the moment in no particular order
- Senses Fail
- Underoath
- Rise Against
- Lostprophets
- The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus
- Breaking Benjamin
- Anberlin
- Finch
- Thursday
- The Fray
- Thrice
- Linkin Park
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Virtual Desktops – The thing we take for granted on our linux machines, we can still have on Windows. There are tons of Virtual Desktop apps for windows, but the best I’ve found is called
VirtuaWin, make sure to get the vwPager module to go with it Here - Get a shell – you can get tons and tons of unix utilities including vi,bash,ssh,cp,ln and all of the rest with cygwin, a unix emulator for windows, with an easy setup and package installer, get all of your favorite apps. Get Cygwin here
- Make it Pretty – Linux is known for being able to be customized in a pretty much infinite number of ways, windows however…is not, but you can make it much prettier with Visual Styles. Learn to set them up Here
- Get your apps – Don’t forget, most of your favorite Open Source software is also available for windows, including Openoffice, Firefox, find more Open Source software for windows at OSS Win
Album of the moment
I’ve been listening to tons more music than I did before. I’d like to point out one of my favorite albums
Vheissu by Thrice
This album surprised my by it’s sheer diversity in musical style, from the chain-gang chorus of
The Earth Will Shake , to the hardcore style of Hold Fast Hope. This album is a fantastic purchase
worth every penny spent.
The Album Cover to Vheissu
Living with windows
As I’ve said many times before, I’m a die-hard Linux fan, but what about those times when you just can’t avoid using Windows
Here are a few things you can do to make yourself more at home.
Freebsd Installation , Brief Howto
This post cross-posted at Daemon Diaries
I recently installed FreeBSD on my laptop … here is how it went:
Audio tip #1
Linux Audio Tip #1 , how to use ssh public key authentication
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Hey , this is mike with quick linux tip
SSH Public Key Authentication
This will allow you to ssh into any machine , without a password
We can do this in three steps
one , generate a key , to do this just type *ssh-keygen*
two , get the public key , we do this by typing
cat ~/.ssh/(id_rsa.pub) then copy that to your clipboard
three ssh into your host machine , type echo -ne ”
then paste the key then a ” then type >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys
now next time you ssh into that machine , it won’t prompt you for a password
well , thats all for now , check out my blog at http://mikedonaghy.org
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