X Applications over SSH Tunnel

Post by: tom on November 21st, 2007 | File Under Memento

To use graphical applications over a SSH tunnel, xauth has to be installed on the server machine. This program is found in the xorg-x11 package (when using openSuSE).

After establishing the SSH tunnel using
ssh -X user@host.tld
you can start any X application (i.e. from the bash…).


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VMware Server 2.0 beta released

Post by: tom on November 14th, 2007 | File Under Proprietary Software, VMware, Virtualization

A new version of VMware Server 2.0 has been released – Version 2.0 beta 1 is available right now.

New features:

  • improved web-based management interface
  • more operating systems are supported
  • better support of high end hardware (up to 8 GB per virtual machine, etc..)
  • 64 bit os support
  • support for usb 2.0

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Statistics of tom’s blog …

Post by: tom on November 13th, 2007 | File Under Monitoring

I’m a little surprised about the OS of the visitors of my site:

  • windows icon Windows: 73,7 %
  • linux icon Linux: 17,3 %
  • mac icon Mac: 5,4 %
  • unknown iconOthers: 3,6 %

At least the browser ratio is quite open source related :-)

  • firefox icon Firefox: 62 %
  • ms ie icon M$ IE: 30,1 %
  • safari icon Safari: 2 %
  • opera icon Opera: 1,4 %
  • unknown iconOthers: 4,5 %

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