While you can connect to your network-connected Eee PC with telnet or Installing SSH server, these are command-line tools. They're useful for certain tasks, but you want to run an application that requires a graphical user interface. For that, it's useful to be able to export your Eee PC's desktop to your remote machine. The simplest way to do this (assuming you're running Linux on your remote computer, or Mac OS X with X11 installed [the default]), is simply:
ssh user@<Eee PC IP address> -X
Naturally, in order for this to work, you'll have to have first started an SSH server on your Eee PC. To see if you have one installed, do this:
sudo which sshd (should return "/usr/sbin/sshd")
and then you can start it with
sudo /usr/sbin/sshd
If you don't have sshd installed, you can get it with
sudo apt-get install openssh-server
You may have to add some repositories to be able to find it with apt-get, though.
Now in the ssh console that opens when you connect to your Eee PC, you can type something like
kwrite /home/user/mywikitips.txt
and your favourite text editor will open your text file in something easier to use than vi (sorry, couldn't resist). The image below shows a piece of the ssh console and the KWrite application editing a text file, all running in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard.
[to be added. mention XMing server]
