A SSH Key allows you to log into a remote server without ever having to enter the password for you user on that server. In some situations, you can use this to increase security, by configuring the remote host to only allow SSH to be used when the client has...
I keep most of my files on my server because I've around a terabyte of space available. In order to access directories that I regularly need, I use NFS to share out the drives. Unfortunately, for the past several months, opening OpenOffice documents resulted in a considerable delay, before OpenOffice...