For the longest time I saw KDE as a distant third, or fourth, on the Linux desktop usability scale. For me, first came GNOME, then came Enlightenment E17, then came XFCE4, and then came KDE. This was a change from when KDE 3.5 — one of the most user-friendly desktops around. The KDE development team rolled out 4.0 and everything was turned on its head. KDE was no longer much use on the desktop, due to bugs, poor performance, and instability.
The next best thing to being there is being able to log into your systems remotely. One of the great things about Linux is the variety of tools you can use to remotely administer your Linux desktop and server systems. From the command line to GUI tools, you can take control of it all right from the comfort of your very own desktop anywhere you happen to be.
This is a very simple example of httplib in Python. I am trying to write a very simple client which can simply ping a URL.
import httplib
while True:
myURL = raw_input('\nURL Please: \n> ')
if myURL == '':
print '\URL Please: \n'
break
httpconnection = httplib.HTTPConnection(myURL)
httpconnection.request('GET', '/')
res = httpconnection.getresponse()
#I am only interested in 200 OK response, anything [...]