I did not know until today that there is something called gnome-rdp using which one can RDP to Windows machines from Ubuntu (or any other linux flavour I imagine). Installation is simple on Ubuntu, with it available in Synaptic Package Manager. To start it you can type in gnome-rdp in a console or go to Applications -> Internet -> Gnome-RDP. Once it has started, usage is quite simple – though you might want to change the remote desktop size and colours. Interestingly this also supports VNC and SSH.
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If you are a newbie to Ubuntu like me (or any other Unix distro) and you tried deleting a folder which is not empty contains files or subdirectories then you get the annoying error "Directory not empty".
To delete such a folder (from a terminal) use the rm -rf command. For example to delete a folder called amitbahree run the following:
rm -rf amitbahree/... - March 9, 2010 -- Ubuntu on a HTC Touch Pro 2 (0)
Well this is the phone I have maybe some day I will try this - pretty geeky albeit useless. :)
... - March 6, 2010 -- Finding out which version of Ubuntu you are running (0)
If you ever need to find out which version of Ubuntu you are running (if you have a few machines it is quite easy to forget what is running where), the easiest way is to run the following command in a terminal:
cat /etc/issue
For example here is the output from the machine I am on now:
amit@xps:~$ cat /etc/issue
Ubuntu 9.04 \n \l...
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