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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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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