OK this dream was really fucked up. First of all there’s this massive robot right, and I’m out my parents house with my mum and brother and we are watching out the front door as it grabs parts of houses with its huge hands and there’s people inside. Then it starts coming towards our house. We slam the front door but it can still see us (thermal vision or something) and it grabs part of the house as we run away from the front door, but mum is too slow and it grabs her, amongst the debris from the house killing her.

Then I find out its on an island similar to Lost and there are others and the robot is somehow one of the monsters on the island.
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So I found out a little while ago that the X server can do this thing where it outputs the window from the machine its running on, to a remote machine, also running an X server. I did this a few times and its pretty damn cool. Basically you simply open a console, set the DISPLAY variable to something like 10.0.0.2:0 and it will open on that IP and that display once you add your machine to that machines xhost list. You follow me? No?

Okay, here it is broken down. Lets say, you have two linux boxes, both running GUI’s, and you want to open gedit on one machine (machine1), but display it on the other machine (machine2):

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