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Entries from April 2009

Screen Profiles available Ubuntu 9.04

April 28th, 2009 · No Comments

Interesting article about .screenrc profiles that offer some unique status bars with GNU Screen under Ubuntu 9.04
For any that are interested, this is my .screenrc
hardstatus alwayslastline
hardstatus string ‘%{= kG}[ %{G}%H %{g}][%= %{=kw}%?%-Lw%?%{r}(%{W}%n*%f%t%?(%u)%?%{r})%{w}%?%+Lw%?%?%= %{g}][%{B}%Y-%m-%d %{W}%c %{g}]‘
#
# Default screens
# syntax: screen -t NameOfScreen ScreenNumber ShellCommand
screen -t “Work SSH” 0 /home/name/workssh
screen -t “Home 1″ 1
screen -t “Home 2″ [...]

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Run VirtualBox headless over an SSH session

April 9th, 2009 · No Comments

When SSH’ing into a linux box, you may want to run a VM headless (that is, not dependent on the console X session). TO RDP into your windows box (assuming you are running a Windows VM over Linux), you’ll want to be sure to engage your -L port:ip-address-of-VirtualBoxHost:port, port forwarding.
Assuming you have VirtualBox remote port [...]

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