It’s (not) Alright

This is the second post about remote access to your PC. I installed the application Webmin yesterday. Webmin is a web-based interface for system administration for Unix. Using any modern web browser, you can setup user accounts, Apache, DNS, file sharing and much more. Webmin removes the need to manually edit Unix configuration files like /etc/passwd, and lets you manage a system from the console or remotely.

In short, it is the administrator control panel for your linux PC. Now, I can access the PC from anywhere. Now is the time to show off

Aditya

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Hey, long time no post I know. I have been busy with something for 2 days now. I have been trying to use SSH. SSH means Secure Shell. Some of you might know about the free UNIX shells some services provide to you. They have a Linux running on the server and they give you an account with a limited set of command and a limited disk space. You can save your files and do your work and so on.

I had an account on one such shell. I seldom used it and it was deleted later. About a week ago, a friend of mine, Kalpik jumped on arch Linux. He went all the crap about how arch is good and all. What it did was all the people at #think-digit on irc.freenode.net (almost all) went on to install it. Some like me installed it as a VirtualOS. The other one was Mehul.

Couple of days ago, Mehul was trying to access the virtual machine from the host OS. He did a lot of things that I am mostly unaware of, and somehow, got the 2 to access via ssh. He then sent me the port, URL and the user/pass for the virtual OS on his PC to me and I logged in to it. This incident brought back the shell in my mind. I thought about giving it a try and maybe, have my system configured for SSH and use it anywhere. Continue reading »

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I am back with another post from the CLI series. This time it is a console IM client. People using Linux would surely have heard about pidgin, formerly knows as gaim. Pidgin is an IM that has support for,

• AIM
• Bonjour
• Gadu-Gadu
• Google Talk
• Groupwise
• ICQ
• IRC
• MSN
• MySpaceIM
• QQ
• SILC
• SIMPLE
• Sametime
• XMPP
• Yahoo!
• Zephyr

Finch, is a fork of pidgin. It has support for all the protocols stated above but it does not have a GUI. It is built using nCurses and so the UI is elegant enough. Finch tries to imitate the GUI of pidgin. I could not find any good guides about using finch, so, I set it up with a friend of mine, Mehul Ved and we found some things out. Continue reading »

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I am quite a lazy person as you might know. It is the case with my blogging also. Hopefully, I have been able to keep writing regularly till now. Now, I have found something called ScribeFire. My friend suggested it in his blog and now I am using it.

It turns out that ScribeFire is a tool using which you can blog within any page of firefox. I am reading the help on ScribeFire and side-by-side posting an article.

My friend as I said has written a good article about it on ClearPixels. You can also get the information you want on ScribeFire.

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