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				PolicyKit 				By Kevin Cave, on June 20th, 2012 		 (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});  
Like the title suggests, this will be relatively brief – mostly because Policykit isn’t as difficult to understand as I originally led myself to believe. 
It all sprang from starting to write about how to get X11rdp/xrdp up and running on your Linux systems. Sure, getting the desktop up  
Continue reading A brief guide to PolicyKit 
 								 	
						
		
								
				Scarygliders Utilities 				By Kevin Cave, on June 15th, 2012 		                  
				Version 2 is almost complete. It's taking me longer than I anticipated, because there's some final stuff I need to figure out with regards to PolicyKit, so that's holding me back. It's now 1:47am as I type this, and I'm going to sleep on the problem. 
PolicyKit is basically what allows local users to do  
Continue reading X11rdp-o-Matic progress – updated 2012-06-19 
 								 	
						
		
								
				Scarygliders Utilities 				By Kevin Cave, on June 8th, 2012 		Just to let you know I'm busy working on a new version of the utilities. 
Stay tuned. ;) 
 Related posts:  The Scarygliders X11rdp-O-Matic and RDPsesconfig : v1.1 released, V2 now available  
 								 	
						
		
								
				Active Directory 				By Kevin Cave, on May 26th, 2012 		                  
				A couple of readers asked how they could get xrdp to authenticate with Active Directory. 
Here's how…  ;) 
 Prerequisites I assume your xrdp server already has either the Likewise/Likewise-Open or as it's now known by,  PowerBroker Identity Services I assume that your xrdp server  
Continue reading xrdp authentication with Active Directory 
 								 	
						
		
								
				Linux Tips & Tricks 				By Kevin Cave, on May 23rd, 2012 		                  
				  
 Note : Version 1.x, 2.x are now deprecated in favour of v3.0 which contains fixes and additional changes, plus creates Debian packages. v3 is out now and is a vast improvment.  
  
  
  
Article first published on May 23, 2012 @ 8:17 
UPDATE : June 17, 2012 
Changelog : 
Added important note about Policykit – see  
Continue reading The Scarygliders X11rdp-O-Matic and RDPsesconfig : v1.1 released, V2 now available 
 								 	
						
		
								
				audio 				By Kevin Cave, on April 6th, 2012 		                  
				Okay so I did a bit of research, and found a method of forwarding audio from your remote RDP Linux desktops. 
The methods work for RDP connections on your local LAN, and also for connections to remote systems via ssh tunnels. 
Here's how… 
2012-04-19 Article Updated 
Changelog: 
 Added a section for how  
Continue reading Get audio with your xrdp/x11rdp connections, LAN or Remote! Updated! Windows Clients! 
 								 	
						
		
								
				Linux Tips & Tricks 				By Kevin Cave, on April 4th, 2012 		                  
				This will be a multi-part series on SSH 
This is Part 1 
Say you have a workstation or server, safely sitting behind a firewall, but you need access, for example, to the shiny RDP service you installed not so long ago, and/or other services on that system. 
You could easily forward the RDP  
Continue reading ssh – Secure your systems with ssh on Linux and puTTY on Windows – Part 1 
 								 	
						
		
								
				Linux Tips & Tricks 				By Kevin Cave, on April 1st, 2012 		                  
				I’ve noticed that recently, Debian-based distributions seem to be attempting to download a bazillion Translations Indexes from their repositories. Most of the these attempts seem to be either ignored, or fail, and sometimes it even seems to slow down the update download itself, presumably because it takes time for the repository server to time out  
Continue reading QuickTips : Stop apt downloading Translations Indexes 
 								 	
						
		
								
				Site News 				By Kevin Cave, on February 23rd, 2012 		If you’re seeing this post, then all is well, DNS has propagated, and you’re now accessing the blog via the new VPS! 
Update : I seem to be having some trouble with comment plugins, so, for now I have deactivated them. Please let me know if you spot any other trouble with the site. 
*sigh*  
Continue reading Move complete! Updated… 
 								 	
						
		
								
				Life hacking 				By Kevin Cave, on February 18th, 2012 		Scarygliders will be moving home soon! 
You probably won't notice anyway, but, I'll be relocating this site to be hosted elsewhere. 
In the meantime, whilst I'm busy configuring the new server, the site will operate as normal, and hopefully the transition will be smooth – famous last words ;) 
I'll let you know when this  
Continue reading Moving home… 
 								 	
						
	
					
    
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