Ordinarily, when bash (or any other shell) starts up on a linux machine, all the user gets is a single prompt. If the user wants information about the status of his account, like how many mail messages he has, the user has to specifically ask for that information. Instead, you might want to set it up so that when a user logs in, he sees a message across the top of the screen, displaying that sort of information. Using a dynamically generated banner instead of just a static motd has the advantage that it can display this sort of information. Read the rest of this entry »
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VNC, “Virtual Network Computing”, allows you to remotely access another computer’s graphical user interface. For most people, this is better than ssh, which is only a terminal (albeit sometimes a colorful one). I’m going to assume that everybody reading this has some Linux/unix experience, and knows how to use ssh.
The first step to using VNC is to ensure that there is something to view – you need to set up a desktop environment. Good candidates are xfce, gnome, and kde (I use gnome). If you have a slow computer with rendering problems, these might not work well (all of them can be kind of hard for a slow computer), so you might look into TWM. Read the rest of this entry »
