Excellent suggestions, thanks! I'll probably end up following all of these once I get the chance =). I'll certainly install your bash package, cvmiller, thanks! That'll be very useful to have the same shell as my Ubuntu machine, should make my life a lot easier.

Also, Kerez sounds very handly for this and plenty of other stuff as well, thanks Tahitibob! And for customising my ssh's on my desktop, I'll no doubt do what Luca suggested....again, thank you everybody. Great advice.