Connect to Ubuntu 11.04 from Windows via Remote Desktop

If you ever wanted to connect to Ubuntu via Remote Desktop Connection, then this tutorial will help you do that. There are many ways to connect to Ubuntu from Windows and RDP protocol is just one of the many ways. Getting started: To get started, press Ctrl – Alt – T on your keyboard to open Terminal. When Terminal opens, type the command below to install xrdp server. sudo apt-get install xrdp Next, go to Start...

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Compile FFmpeg on CentOS 6.x (Latest Version)

This guide is based on minimal CentOS and will provide a local, non-system installation of FFmpeg with several external encoding libraries. These instructions should also work for recent Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and Fedora. This is a non-invasive guide and undoing all steps is simple and is shown at the end of this page. Get the Dependencies Note: The # indicates that the command should be executed as superuser or root. Get the dependencies: # yum install autoconf automake gcc gcc-c++ git libtool make nasm...

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Utorrent on Centos 5 (GLIBC_2.11 not found Problem)

Note: This is a quick quide for those who are facing GLIBC or other library issues with utorrent. If you are not facing these problems or haven't tried yet, You should follow the complete descriptive guide HERE If you are using a relatively old distribution (with glibc <= 2.10) like centos 5 for Utorrent (utserver), you must be getting a GLIBC_2.11 not found error: ./utserver: /lib32/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.11' not found (required by ./utserver) or /lib instead of /lib32 on some distros: ./utserver: /lib/libc.so.6:...

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Utorrent Server on Linux, Step by Step How To

It has been six years since I migrated to Linux (from windows) and never looked back. I used to use uTorrent on windows as my torrent client. It was small, light-weight and very user friendly. Frankly speaking in these six years of my linux voyage, I never found any alternative to that. Until recently I heard that utorrent is now available for linux. Keeping my hopes high, I gave it a try and it lived up to my expectations. As expected...

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