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- deadbaby, on 10/11/2007, -2/+91"By this point he’s finishing his sob story about how he needs to get his paper written or he’s going to fail his class, never graduate and end up being homeless, etc, etc."
He didn't think of buying a new keyboard? - zigaroo, on 10/11/2007, -2/+52What happened to our buddy Num Lock?
- hyankov, on 10/11/2007, -25/+71Yeah, like Ubuntu is the only system supporting SSH... omfg... this article is so lame and full of it...
- jcaino, on 10/11/2007, -2/+38or hell - what about using the number pad?
- Roger, on 10/11/2007, -9/+44Lame.
And for the record, SSH runs on both Windows and Mac computers too. - ravan46, on 10/11/2007, -3/+38Yeah, there's a reason you have 24/7 Wal-Marts.
- buyer687, on 10/11/2007, -0/+21But could it save the day at 1500 miles away?
- jtb4, on 10/11/2007, -4/+23Not that it's all about Ubuntu- it's just that the people supporting Ubuntu are vocal. Whenever a distro manages to attract and disseminate touchy feely stories like this that attract newbies I for one consider it a good thing.
- drmsux, on 10/11/2007, -5/+24buried as lame, in Windows you can just press Win+U and type the password with the onscreen keyboard. No SSH required. Or you could use Remote Desktop..still no SSH required. I guest Windows is just too lame for real 1337 SSH gurus -)
- djh816, on 10/11/2007, -1/+18I use ssh all the time to move documents I forgot to print out into my webserver so I can access them at school. It's a life saver.
- dhughes, on 10/11/2007, -2/+18I'm guessing it was a laptop that didn't have a numeric keypad on the right.
Also, if it was a desktop with a keyboard, not being the Geek in the family he probably doesn't have twenty spare keyboards lying around like most of us do. - adidax, on 10/11/2007, -0/+16where's my digg frontpage story for using ssh every day to save mail servers, radius server, and all other sorts of crap like that?
- outhouseinput, on 10/11/2007, -3/+17ROFL...a trip to Best Buy/CompUSA/Circuit City/Campus computer center and 10 bucks would have bought him a keyboard he could have plugged in and used.
Oh yeah, and how did the brother know his IP straight away? - schoate09, on 10/11/2007, -1/+15I see what you did there
- SamuelDr2, on 10/11/2007, -1/+14Some people have either a dyndns like service or a static ip.
- Darmichar, on 10/11/2007, -1/+14How dare you state something that obvious when someone is using a sappy story to promote a *nix product.
You should be ashamed of yourself.
/sarcasm - zeptobyte, on 10/11/2007, -2/+14Dugg because I didn't know about Win+U.
- Firehed, on 10/11/2007, -1/+12"dir /p" and "del *.*" come to mind, though neither is especially helpful in this situation. I'm partial to "format c:"
- Fartag, on 10/11/2007, -0/+11You claim there are many other ways, well name a better one not based on ssh to access remote PCs securely from any platform. "Fan-boy scum"?! Damn man, did an ssh TASE your grandma and steal her groceries or something?
- jellygraph, on 10/11/2007, -2/+12On a Mac... of course, its running a BSD derived environment.
But Windows? There may be one, like through Cygwin, but what set of command-line tools do you get to do system administration? I'm curious? - joebob, on 10/11/2007, -2/+12Or perhaps just ask a neighbor or local friend to borrow a keyboard?
- rhowell, on 10/11/2007, -2/+11But if his screensaver comes on, or he logs out, he's screwed again. It would have been better to change his password or something not involving the broken keys.
- Daishiman, on 10/11/2007, -0/+9SSH lets me steal your job 4000 miles away.
- bigkm, on 10/11/2007, -2/+10Although its well known that you can do this, i've dug it cause its good to supprise users with the power of *nix tools.
- djh816, on 10/11/2007, -5/+13you just proved his point.
- slapded, on 10/11/2007, -5/+13***** that is cool
- SamuelDr2, on 10/11/2007, -1/+8No, like openssh maybe?
- michnaugh1, on 10/11/2007, -1/+8I am a big fan of streaming my mt-daap server through ssh to listen to music at work.
- wanzedk, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6I agree with you that there should be a button, but still, only the number row was broken, so he could press Win+U.
- tempusrob, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6I think it's that a *lot* of the people using Ubuntu are discovering Linux for the first time whereas suse and Fedora users are a bit less likely to be newbies. So what may appear as just "vocal supporters" are people who are genuinely impressed and excited by this whole "Linux" thing ...
- heavyd14, on 10/11/2007, -2/+8Wait, if your keyboard is broken, how do you type Win+U? If the guy who is in charge of such things for [MS, Apple, Gnome, KDE] reads this, it should be a button available on the screen, maybe hidden in a menu.
- meathead76, on 10/11/2007, -1/+7Over 200 people dugg this story? Some guy trying to get certified for RedHat is excited about SSH? Buried.
- DigitAl56K, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6HOLY CRAP! You mean you can communicate with other computers over teh Internet? How is this possible??!
- secleinteer, on 10/11/2007, -2/+8Yeah, I have ddns running on my router - works like a charm.
- Pepper, on 10/11/2007, -2/+7Right. Other systems support SSH too, but if I had a non computer-literate brother, I'd rather he ran Ubuntu than Windows any day.
- joebaloney, on 10/11/2007, -2/+7Wow, you act like "ssh" is too simple, then say "tunnel X through it, that's cool" All that means is using "ssh -X" so no you are not now 31337.
- tempusrob, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5Cygwin w/ SSH + Powershell gives you a pretty powerful remote adminstration option. I'm pretty sure something like this, if not impossible, would require a deep knowledge of Windows, however.
- Kragnerac, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5"Open source is stupid....why do you people use this junk."
Nice Tux avatar. - I_am_so_smrt, on 10/11/2007, -3/+8I've seen USB keyboards at drug stores for $5.99 and most of them stay open all night. Me thinks this guy just wanted to play hero for his bro.
Nice story, No Dig - VigilanteP, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4Kill yourself
- Motodog, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4I was wondering that exact same thing. Cool work around though.
- skinfitz, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4Wow - I've only ever used SSH from 200 miles away - I didn't realise it would work at 1400 miles.
- AK10, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4Or the guy writing the article set it up for him, like I do for fixing my family's computers remotely.
- ps3udov3ctor, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4two idiots displaying basic computer skills and this is digg front page material. buried as ***** lame.
- shawnz, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5because this has really anything to do with Ubuntu, or even Linux for that matter. not only does sshd exist on every platform on the face of the earth, but you could have used the local tools (RDP on windows for example) to do it just as well. buried for being completely uninformed. also, how did he magically know the exact ip to use? and how was it conveniently not behind a router like half of the population's computers?
- mroo, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4Err.. You do realise SSH = Secure SHell ? And you have to log in ?
- sat24, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3I bet he didnt pass the Certified Linux Cracker ...er... engineer exam.
- jellygraph, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3joebaloney obviously hasn't evolved the part of his brain that can detect sarcasm or wit.
- iDiggIt42, on 10/11/2007, -2/+5OMG U DISC0VR3D T3H S3CR3TZ T0 M1 1337h4xx0rn355!!11 0H N0EZ!11
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