Anonymous Coward writes “corey again.. you gotta let me know how to get x-forwarding working right with ssh……
On a Windoze (or Mac?) box, use putty:
1) Run an X server on your box – I use Hummingbird at work, Cygwin-X at home (I love it!)
2) Putty Configuration->Connection->SSH->Tunnels:
On linux:
1) ssh to where you need to go
2) export DISPLAY=[yourip]:0.0
3) start up an X app
Do either of those work for ya?
I really love Gentoo, but I don’t get to play with it enough (my main server is Fedora Core 3). Under Fedora, I use yum to stay up to date. On Gentoo, of course, there is portage. Here are some notes on the steps to get things updated on my spare Gentoo box…
Can’t seem to find a fc3 yum repository with fluxbox (wtf!), and my windoze box is locking up every 10 minutes, so I decided to attempt a Tomcat install so I could serve up cute little baby Java servlets for somebody at work. Following instructions here, which point to here, I did the following…
While Windows Media Player continues to sneak all this DRM and information-gathering in on you (10 is the worst yet), it has some additional really broken functionality that annoyed the crap out of me today. I couldn’t seem to grab a screenshot of an avi clip I was playing. Media player, Zoom-in, and MS Paint were in cahoots to defeat me, so don’t tell me it’s not intentional. :> Finally “beat the system” with good old Winamp.
Moral: switch to Linux while it’s still legal.
Actually this is a good thing, I’ve seen lots of good Visual Studio C++ info from these guys:
Mebbe even worth monitoring the RSS feeds, time will tell. Cool.
