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hiding fullscreen citrix in linux

I remote to various workplaces over citrix. I’d prefer other technologies, but that’s another story. I work in fullscreen. But, I often need to switch out of my citrix environment and back to the linux host to do other things. This does the trick;

ctrl-f2, tells citrix that the next keystroke is to be passed through
alt-f9, [...]

secure copy which continues where you left off if interrupted

If I’m at liberty, I’ll in 10/10 cases be ssh based when communicating between hosts. Secure, easy, terminal with graphics (ssh -X), copy (scp) , remote filesystem (sshfs) and only one port to keep track of. Large copy operations are a bit annoying over a normal scp however, since if the copy is interrupted for [...]

Accessing ext3 drive from windows 7 64 bit

My main laptop is a dual boot Windows 7 64 bit Enterprise and an Ubuntu 9.04 64 bit. I want to access my ext3 drives from windows. Before I always used ext2ifs, but that doesn’t work with this os setup.

EXT2FSD does the trick however. It installs in the 64 bit Program files directory and it [...]