Just thought I’d put this out there so I can remember it:
For those that stumble upon this thread trying to start vino from the cli via a remote ssh connection look here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1017746
at post #7
1. ssh to that machine and authenticate as x
2. sudo -s to become root
3. export DISPLAY=:0.0
4. xhost +
5. exit from root [...]
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How to control Vino from the command line
Open Source and Stanford
An interesting discussion is going on here about two Stanford professors advising commercial vendors on how to deal with the threat of Open Source.
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Among the things that rankle me in their document is the idea that “Embrace and Extend” is a good way to push a commercial product into a market already taken over by [...]
Make Firefox look like Google Chrome
A nifty Firefox Theme that makes it look more like the recently released Chrome browser.



