I am constantly infuriated by the amount of spam I get in my email account every day. I couldn’t agree more. So here’s the plan. Don’t start posting on newsgroups or anything like that.

Using the Remote Desktop client usually lands you in a seperate session on the windows server. If you want to see the usage dialog, bang out mstsc /?

If you get your backup files a different way it’s possible for you to skip that step. Let’s get a backup of the database first. Copy the files down to your local Ubuntu machine. This can be done via scp, ftp, or however you feel like it. I’ll leave that up to you. check that you have apache, php and mysql installed. First, we’ll want to extract the tar archive that we created....

Firefox, like many popular browsers, includes a built-in functionality to secure your password. Here’s how to locate your saved password. In Firefox, navigate to the Tools \ Options menu item. grab the Privacy button, the Passwords tab, and then hit View Saved Passwords. Note: usernames in the image scratched out to protect the poster!

Thanks to a wonderful plugin by Matt Read, you could fix this easily. First, you’ll want to grab the plugin from his website and install it. If you are unaware, that means unzipping and uploading the file into your BLOGROOT/wp-content/plugins/ directory. If this article helps you, then donate money to him, not me. Head over to Options / CQS and you should be presented with this screen. I dislike cluttered homepages....

Obviously this should only be used for testing / debugging purposes.

Update:Downloadable versionalso available. Here’s the quick registry hack to get this working. As usual, back up your registry just in case.

The immediate issue that you will notice is that the wallpaper displays the same image on both screens. Here’s how to do it. We’re going to chooseHeart Broken by Pincel3d, but he’s got some other wonderful wallpapers over there. Now this next part is slightly tricky if you aren’t familiar. Note: resized the image down so you’ve got the option to easily see it. The wallpaper will magically cover that window....

Like anything else on linux, it’s easiest to do things from the command line.

There are a number of ways to kill a process if you know the name of the process. Here’s a couple different ways you’re able to accomplish this.

Here’s the basic code to make a list. if($handle =opendir('.'))

PHP makes pulling this data into a string variable an extremely simple process. Note that this doesn’t pull down the supporting files such as javascript or CSS. You will have to further parse the page and retrieve those seperately if you need the whole thing.

A useful technique for your applications is allowing them to parse command line arguments.