Tag: 10.10

Setup key for nx and ssh

Posted on by phsamuel

It took me quite many hours. There are many posts online but at the same time many of them lead to dead ends. As mentioned in this post, the instruction described on help.ubuntu.com allows one to setup custom key but at the same time leaves a big security hole on ssh. Because everyone can ssh to…

Ubuntu share folders

Posted on by phsamuel

I used to use Samba to share folders between my laptop and my desktop. It works fine until 10.10 that Ubuntu decided to act crazy and screw the whole mount.cifs thing. I still managed to share the folders for a while after some tweaks with /etc/fstab. But today it is just not working anymore. I…

Annoying Opacify Feature in 10.10

Posted on by phsamuel

Okay. I found this so-called opacify feature extremely annoying (I’ll just call it retarded to show my anger towards it). Basically, it makes any other overlapping windows to fade out from the window currently moused over with. It doesn’t sound so annoying but you will know if you use it for an hour or two….

Close button back to the right side

Posted on by phsamuel

It has been addressed in many posts such as this. I include this just as a personal note. The random decision by Ubuntu is quite a bit annoying sometimes, even though I still love it…