Ubuntu: Install xrdp

 When I'm connecting from my Windows 10 laptop, I want to use mRemoteNG to keep my machines/connections/thoughts organized. I also run my VMs on an old laptop running Ubuntu, which means I'm using xrdp instead of VNC to connect.

Since I never remember the steps to reinstall xrdp, I'm sharing them here, so I remember next time:

sudo apt install xrdp sudo systemctl status xrdp sudo adduser xrdp ssl-cert sudo systemctl restart xrdp sudo systemctl status xrdp

Ubuntu: How do I get the total free space on my drive?

 In Ubuntu, how do I get the total free space on my drive?

sudo df -h --total

Ubuntu 13.04 RDP

Connect to Ubuntu 13.04 from Windows via RDP Protocol using Windows 8 .

After some research, here's the command line version:

sudo apt-get install xrdp

sudo apt-get install gnome-session-fallback

echo “gnome-session –session=gnome-fallback” > ~/.xsession

sudo /etc/init.d/xrdp restart

How To Build A Virtual PC

So, I recently had an adventure with Ubuntu 9.04.

Please don't misunderstand - I liked it, I really did.

However! What I found out is that there are just a few things that my daily workflow requires. These are largely application based. In no particular order, they are: MS Office, Synctoy, iTunes, and World Of Warcraft. Some of the things I liked about the Ubuntu experiment were: FFMpeg, Thunderbird's native integration, Ease of setup, Security, and the UI.

Some of the things I missed you can run in an emulation window, or even a virtual PC. However, mostly, I wasn't interested in emulating success, and decided to make the switch back to Windows.

In switching back, I find that although I CAN, I really don't want to be rebuilding my PC again anytime soon. That said, I do need a place to develop some software.

I am going to be building a Virtual PC to solve this problem.

I intend to load it with Windows 7, SQL Server 2008, and Visual Studio.

And no Ubuntu this time.

My New Thunderbird Favorite AddOn

EMail Address Crawler 1.8.0 by CySlider has to be my new favorite Thunderbird AddOn:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/9995

The description is rather straightforward:

Automatically fill your address books or send mass mails with e-mail addresses extracted from all your e-mails.


It sounds like something a good person wouldn't do, doesn't it? Lose their addressbook, I mean.

But if you do, and you're a Thunderbird user, this little gem can save your life, not to mention your hair!

Ubuntu & VPC 2007

I kinda wish I'd found this link before I went all nuts on down this road. I think I could have learned a lot more about email and application configurability if I'd played more before leaping.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuAndVirtualPC2007