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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.

1. 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
2. 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
3. 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
4. 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

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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For those who actually read my blog , (both few and far between) , I am not in fact dead , just lazy , I mean … not really…I have been doing a lot of things
I have been Screencasting , Running Linux and Listening to music
I will have more up soon hopefully (famous last words…)

Many people [that I know] are confused about the differences between wordpress and blogger so I made a quick chart to show the major differences… although I will let you come to the conclusion of which service is better ^_^

here is the chart:(click to view a larger version)

Note: The downloadable version of wordpress Does not have the same restrictions

This comparison the for the Wordpress.com Hosted version only

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