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Enable PowerShell Remoting

On the remote machine, start a Administrator PowerShell session and run following commands: Enable-PSRemoting cd wsman: cd localhost\client set-item trustedhosts * Just answer "Y" for any prompt. To start a remote Powershell session, on your local PowerShell session, enter: Enter-PSSession <the-remote-machine-hostname&gt For some reason, Enter-PSSession can't seems to resolve DNS aliases (CNAME records) and you'll get the following error if you used it instead of the hostname. Enter-PSSession : Connecting to remote server failed with the following error message : WinRM cannot process the request. The following error occured while using Kerberos authentication: The network path was not found.

Running CrunchBang Linux 10 "Statler" on HP mini 1000

I was a big Ubuntu fan until they decided to use Unity in netbook remix and moved windows border icons to the left. I then switched to LinuxMint, it was alright but I'm a Chrome user and I hate the fact that they won't let you remove firefox (the package manager forces you to install "abrowser", which is still firefox but with brand removed). Now CrunchBang Linux is my new favorite Linux distro. I hesitated before puting it on my HP mini 1000 netbook because the latest version "Statler" is based on debian, which is famous for being "Pure Open Source" and hence lack of proprietary drivers. However, I was totally wrong, nearly all hardware worked out of the box for me except for the usual wireless driver, network port and bluetooth. Wireless To be fair the b43 driver did work but it was fairly unstable and disconnects randomly. The solution turns out is pretty simple, all you have to do is to enter: options b43 pio=1 qos=0 in the following