NFS is a pain because you need to have the same UIDs on different systems. It seemed easiest to change my UID on my Ubuntu box.
usermod -u 1234 phil
Simple enough and it even chowned the files in my home directory. But I still have files everywhere which have my old uid. I’d like to find and own them, seems like a pain, could take ages? Easy with GNU find:
sudo find / -uid 1000 -exec chown phil \{\} \;
I like to use a command line interface whenever possible. Sometimes though a windowed application is required. In MS Windows you use the start command to bring up the default app, (don’t use this much). In Cygwin I use the cygstart command.
So I was using my Ubuntu system and wanted to do something similar. The command it turns out is gnome-open. Bit of a mouthful so I have this aliased in my .bashrc file to cs for either cygstart or gnome-open which is much more snappy.
Just renewed for another year with Pronethosting as my web/email/blog hosting provider.
They have been absolutely rock solid in the last year. I forget if I’ve been with them for three or four years now.
The plan provides everything you might want.
Here’s a snip from my plan details (linux 1)
150 MB web space
- 4000 MB transfer
- unlimited email
- webmail
- unlimited MY SQL
- PHP, Perl, SSH
- cPanel control panel
- Fantastico
- online statistics
The fantastico feature is really cool you can do things like almost one click install of Wordpress 
SSH is really nice as you can get down and dirty if you want to change/fix something if you want.