Lots of stuff's been done in the last week or so.
Opened the parents' router ports when I was up to allow me to access their mac by VNC viewer if they get into any technical strife.
Fresh Arch install on the laptop. The last time I did this I just plonked a desktop package right on there - KDE I think - and I was not pleased with the results. I thought with Arch that the difficulty was all with the installation and once that was done I lost interest. Now I'm realising that all the post-installation config is the "interesting" part. I'm not going to list all the learnings during that process - I've made notes on the system which I might copy in here in a separate post (note to self - do this as I go next time!).
Have spent most of my time so far getting xorg, Openbox and SLiM installed and configured. Oh, and tint2. I'm halfway towards a #!-looking desktop and conky's functional.
What else... got the Pi attached to the external hard drive and Raspbmc is running, controlled via apps on the ipad (her) and kindle fire (me) since the anynet+ remote control is intermittent.
Files are being transferred using the scp command over ssh...
I started this post with the intention of recording some specific commands. Like
ssh-keygen -R [hostname]
which I had to use a couple of times when switching between pi installs. So I'd better do that. More to follow if I remember.
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