"Mosh" (http://mosh.mit.edu/) sounds very useful:
"SSH is a wonderful thing, but it doesn't deal very well with today's
mobile workers. When dealing with iffy Wi-Fi connections, moving
around from coffeeshop to home office, or just putting your laptop to
sleep for a few minutes, you lose your SSH connection. If you need a
persistent connection, take a look at Mosh."
-- source: https://www.linux.com/learn/tutorials/562553-into-the-mosh-pit-a-mobile-she…
Not just available for the latest Ubuntu (and other Linux distros),
but also for versions starting with 10.04, via a separate ppa:
http://mosh.mit.edu/#getting
Cheers, Peter
--
Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ
http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174
"The latest version of the Equinox Desktop Environment, EDE 2.0, is
fully freedesktop.org-compliant and now uses the FLTK toolkit
throughout. It is designed to be a fast and lightweight environment
for older computers or embedded use"
-- source: http://h-online.com/-1581800
Cheers, Peter
--
Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ
http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174
Hi Folks,
Just to let you know that I delivered my 5 minutes of Open Source to Hamilton City Council.
Rob, Peter, Kyle, Noel and Bruce; many thanks for your e-mails with hints/comments on the presenting.
My 20 x hand-out's included my home made copies of ubuntu 12.04 desktop i386. I did investigate Peters suggestion of handing out the Ubuntu "business re-mix", but decided against it on the grounds of having to agree to some EULA's before downloading didn't make it suitable.
I parallel the handing out of home made Open Source CD's somewhat like... going along to Council to promote a new type of muffins, and in doing so I bring along a batch of muffins that I've baked at home. The Councillors are welcome to eat the muffins themselves, or take them home and give them to their kids. At the end of my presentation I got in a plug for Peters submission #365. This was somewhat like stating, that Peter has supplied the recipe for the muffin's, and Council can get their chief cook to investigate Peters recipe in more depth to see if the Council want to get into making muffins.
So I don't think it mattered that my CD's had a "home made" look about them.
The goal of my submission was: "To have included in the Hamilton 2012-22 10-year Plan: Reduce the costs of Hamilton City Council's Information Technology, through the implementation of Open Source Software."
On May 29-30 Council will decide on the submissions, and on June 29 the final plan will be adopted. So we will have to wait and see if Open Source gets its foot in the door this time round.
cheers,
Ian.
PS: One Councillor asked me if he'd be able to use the ubuntu 12.04 i386 desktop CD on his Mac. I told him that I was not knowledgeable on Mac's and I'd get back to him. I see there's this...
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MactelSupportTeam/AppleIntelInstallation
...on installing ubuntu on Mac's that use intel chipset. I'm not sure if I'd like to recommend he gives this a go unless he's 100% sure his Mac has no data on it. Maybe I'll suggest he comes along to a wlug Saturday workshop and hopefully someone is there that's done this sort of thing on Mac's.
cheers,
Ian.
Hi there
Unfortunately, Nautilus got a bit neutered in Ubuntu 12.04, by
removing the "Home" and "Up" buttons. Hence I switched to using KDE's
Dolphin file browser instead, in my Gnome classic session.
But, of course, this isn't without problems... The most annoying thing
is that a selected file/directory fades from white font on orange
background (dolphin-selected.png) to white font on white background,
when hovering with the mouse above the selected file
(dolphin-selected_mouse_hover.png). Can this "fading" be turned off? I
couldn't find anything obvious in the KDE settings and changing themes
didn't seem to do anything either (window+gtk theme: Radiance, icon
theme: ubuntu-mono-light).
Any KDE power-user out there that can help with that?
Thanks.
Cheers, Peter
--
Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ
http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174
More expensive, but also interesting:
"The computer is the size of a USB stick and features a 1.5GHz Cortex
A8 processor with 512MB of RAM and a MALI400 GPU. It can decode 1080p
video via its HDMI output and has two USB connectors".
-- source: http://h-online.com/-1578994
Cheers, Peter
--
Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ
http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174
Personally I think the idea of 10-year plans are terrible for many
reasons. Also seems a little incongruous with such a fast moving scene
as OSS, 10 years from now who really knows what OSS will look like?
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [wlug] Presentation at Hamilton Council 10 Year Plan
> Hearing
> From: Michael McDonald <mikencolleen(a)gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, May 17, 2012 6:43 pm
> To: Waikato Linux Users Group <wlug(a)list.waikato.ac.nz>
>
>
> On 17 May 2012 15:56, Ian Stewart <ianstewart56(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
> > PS: One Councillor asked me if he'd be able to use the ubuntu 12.04 i386
> > desktop CD on his Mac. I told him that I was not knowledgeable on Mac's and
> > I'd get back to him. I see there's this...
> > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MactelSupportTeam/AppleIntelInstallation
>
> VirtualBox works well on Macs. Create a virtual machine and you're
> away. Haven't tried Linux, but I did set up Windows 8 on one Mac. It
> works well on other computers too!
>
> Michael
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