Its built into recent versions of SuSE (Pro)... if you enable VNC Terminal Server it puts entries into the xinetd configuration to spawn Xvnc processes to give desktop logins on request.
With SuSE, (9.x at least, probably even before that), you can enable a VNC terminal server. If you do this is then adds a VNC service to xinetd allowing multiple sessions to be connected to the server faily easily. I.e. I connect to the system on port 5901 and it spawns a Xvnc process to handle the connection. Connecting again to the same port spawns another one.
Each VNC session gets its own kdm (in my systems case) login and own X desktop. A quick look shows only one "X" process running and a "Xvnc" process for each desktop.
(of course I tunnel the VNC connection over SSH but that should make no difference to anything above).
... looking under Mozart it appears to list pieces in W Flat and J Major.... erm....having played musical instruments in the past that doesn't seem right:)
Having played with Mambo for the last month, (and only breaking it enough to require manual editing of the database to fix once), I would say that using it is no bad thing... working out my own template for the site has helped me understand CSS better and having a prebuilt structure is good for letting you worry about the bits you want to worry about and having the structure there to handle the rest...
hmmm... take the t-shirt idea one step further... create a t-shirt then wear it in a mall, (or equivalent), with CCTV... hmmm they are filming your image... collect large cheque....:)
Family and close friends get assistance and advise... they will also get upgraded if they have the required hardware/software which they have purchased (normally following my recommendations).
Close family will also get free hardware upgrades if something becomes free in my kit thats surplus to requirements, (e.g. my Dad has just been upgraded from some rather dodgy onboard sound to a SB Audigy Platinium Ex)... in return they have to listen to explanations on basic security and spyware prevention. If they want assistance then they will be running antivirus and a firewall and if the machine is in a running state then it will be backed up prior to me touching it.
Payment.... normally in the form of food, either out or home cooked plus a supply of snacks during the work:)
Friends of friends... i'll listen and give advice but i honestly dont want to get involved...
Urm... don't know what you have against GBPVR but the things you seem to be claiming it doesn't do are rubbish. Changing the quality to record at is easy enough to do as is watching live television through it. I will admit it isnt necesarily the easiest software in the world to configure but all the configuration I've needed to do I've done through the config gui provided, no need to hack any text files at all.
So you pay your money... I'll stick with the free software which does the job
.... then support is the key. It doesn't matter that you can normally get a fix to a problem off some forum or l33t irc channel what matters is that you can have a support contract which has an SLA so that if you cannot fix the problem then you have a contract with someone to help you.
Also whatever distribution you use must be supported as a platform by the application vendor, e.g. Oracle... this will cut down the options significantly but means that if you do have problems you are not left in a situation where you are told that you are on an unsupported OS so you are on your own.
Personally I would run either SuSE or Redhat Enterprise editions, (leaning more towards SuSE as I run the Pro version at home so am used to YaST etc).
Also you want to decrease the number of support companies you use... for example you an get x86 hardware and linux support from HP. This combines support in two areas and cuts down on blame passing quite significantly in my experience, (with other vendors).
At the end of the day you are looking for a stable, supportable system not a l33t one.
Admittedly no, most people would think of CSI... but just because Quincy is off air where you are doesnt mean its off air everywhere... in the UK its been on during the afternoon within the last 2 years.
Urm, whilst it may be illegal to do those things in _some_ contries in Europe, (in the first case Germany and the second France (i think)), but that does not mean that its illegal to do so all over Europe.
In the first case it may e considered in bad taste everywhere though...
Hmmm.... now did the holes have to be unique within what you found or unique within what the whole group found? As if it were the latter and there were 25 people on the course and he wanted 10 unique security holes from each then maybe a complaint should go in and he be required to prove that there were 250 unique holes for the class to find!
hmmm... personally I run gbpvr on XP which is free but not open source. Probably supports less cards than Snapstream, (needs hardware encoding... I use a PVR250), but seems to give good results.
The Media Portal software appears to be a port of the media center from the xbox platform to normal Windows. Hence it doesn't require an Xbox. I.e. from the requirements page it specifies WinXP SP1 or SP2.
We've had these, or things that look just like these in the UK for quite some time. Looking cool in, IMHO, would not really be possible.... and of course there is the question that people ponder over about whether if one was stopped suddenly it would start rolling end of end....:)
... on Windows pretty much stick with the default directories, (although admitedly they are mapped on to a Samba share of one of my Linux servers so if i need to wipe windows its nothing to worry about), I do have a habit though of creating a directory called installers on one of the drives with sub directories of drivers, apps, ms etc which any patches, apps or drivers which i download which I actually use get put into... hence if i need to reinstall i can keep track of roughly what was on there before.
On Unix... well when i have a home directory on a system to keep things in i tend to have bin, scripts (for admin scripts i'm working on), docs, patches, temp# (where # increases dependent on how stenuously I housekeep) and of course thorw away areas like fred and bert. I will (at work) tend to have a/installers on any machine i've built with stashes of useful stuff for that machine or other machines near it (network wise), e.g. AIX maintenance level patch packs. My record for/installers (on a production system) was 30gb (and it was even in the system design document. Up to recently in a team i worked in we were still using X-Terminals off of a rs6000... every so often i have to do house keeping on the system (which had accounts for approx 9 sys-admins and 6 dba's)... my hjome directory tended to be several orders of magnitude large than the majority of the others:)
I agree with this totally. Sitebar is easy to setup, (assuming that you have MySQL and Apache installed). I combine it with a dyndns account which means that i can access the same bookmarks at home, at work or if i am away.
To right... a friend of mine picked up a HPLJ4+ off ebay uk for 25 quid... it didnt work at first (due to a stuck cooling fan) but 10mins with a screwdriver and its fine and will last her for years !
On the music side my mp3's are sitting on a samba share on my main linux server so are accessble over my network to any of the other machines on it... I also have ampache setup so that i can stream audio straight out to winamp (or equivalent) on any of the machines as well. I am not able to stream to my HiFi with the kit I have but I tend to listen to stuff whilst doing something on the PC anyway so that doesnt really matter. This means that my CD collection, (from which ALL of the mp3 have come from), can be stored away.
On the video side I have a little shuttle box connected to my TV... this has a large disk, a PVR250 and a graphics card with TV out. I am not running MythTV (although that is a perfectly valid option, (I tried to use it with a PVR350 had lots of issues so decided against it here)).... instead I'm using GBPVR... Its free, (but not open source), and has a similar feature set to MythTV but runs on Windows instead. The shuttle box is connected by wireless to the lan for downloading EPG updates etc. This is used for time shifting TV programs... (although if anybody has any recommendations on how to convert mpeg2 video (3Gb/Hour) to a smaller format for longer term storage... (e.g. divx?... I've done it before but the brightness of the recording seems to reduced quite significantly)). The box also has a DVD writer, (and software for multiregion playback)
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... no satelite images ... and it doesn't even have my road on it, (although it is ~2 years old)
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Its built into recent versions of SuSE (Pro) ... if you enable VNC Terminal Server it puts entries into the xinetd configuration to spawn Xvnc processes to give desktop logins on request.
Tim
With SuSE, (9.x at least, probably even before that), you can enable a VNC terminal server. If you do this is then adds a VNC service to xinetd allowing multiple sessions to be connected to the server faily easily. I.e. I connect to the system on port 5901 and it spawns a Xvnc process to handle the connection. Connecting again to the same port spawns another one.
Each VNC session gets its own kdm (in my systems case) login and own X desktop. A quick look shows only one "X" process running and a "Xvnc" process for each desktop.
(of course I tunnel the VNC connection over SSH but that should make no difference to anything above).
Tim
... looking under Mozart it appears to list pieces in W Flat and J Major .... erm ....having played musical instruments in the past that doesn't seem right :)
t
Having played with Mambo for the last month, (and only breaking it enough to require manual editing of the database to fix once), I would say that using it is no bad thing ... working out my own template for the site has helped me understand CSS better and having a prebuilt structure is good for letting you worry about the bits you want to worry about and having the structure there to handle the rest ...
t
hmmm ... take the t-shirt idea one step further ... create a t-shirt then wear it in a mall, (or equivalent), with CCTV ... hmmm they are filming your image ... collect large cheque .... :)
... does Chicago City Hall have CCTV?)
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I second the 1200 ... have one plugged into the SuSE file/print server on my lan ... works fine under linux (via usb) and winxp
t
Family and close friends get assistance and advise ... they will also get upgraded if they have the required hardware/software which they have purchased (normally following my recommendations).
... in return they have to listen to explanations on basic security and spyware prevention. If they want assistance then they will be running antivirus and a firewall and if the machine is in a running state then it will be backed up prior to me touching it.
.... normally in the form of food, either out or home cooked plus a supply of snacks during the work :)
... i'll listen and give advice but i honestly dont want to get involved ...
Close family will also get free hardware upgrades if something becomes free in my kit thats surplus to requirements, (e.g. my Dad has just been upgraded from some rather dodgy onboard sound to a SB Audigy Platinium Ex)
Payment
Friends of friends
t
Urm ... don't know what you have against GBPVR but the things you seem to be claiming it doesn't do are rubbish. Changing the quality to record at is easy enough to do as is watching live television through it. I will admit it isnt necesarily the easiest software in the world to configure but all the configuration I've needed to do I've done through the config gui provided, no need to hack any text files at all.
... I'll stick with the free software which does the job
So you pay your money
Thanks
t
.... then support is the key. It doesn't matter that you can normally get a fix to a problem off some forum or l33t irc channel what matters is that you can have a support contract which has an SLA so that if you cannot fix the problem then you have a contract with someone to help you.
... this will cut down the options significantly but means that if you do have problems you are not left in a situation where you are told that you are on an unsupported OS so you are on your own.
... for example you an get x86 hardware and linux support from HP. This combines support in two areas and cuts down on blame passing quite significantly in my experience, (with other vendors).
Also whatever distribution you use must be supported as a platform by the application vendor, e.g. Oracle
Personally I would run either SuSE or Redhat Enterprise editions, (leaning more towards SuSE as I run the Pro version at home so am used to YaST etc).
Also you want to decrease the number of support companies you use
At the end of the day you are looking for a stable, supportable system not a l33t one.
t
Admittedly no, most people would think of CSI ... but just because Quincy is off air where you are doesnt mean its off air everywhere ... in the UK its been on during the afternoon within the last 2 years.
t
Urm, whilst it may be illegal to do those things in _some_ contries in Europe, (in the first case Germany and the second France (i think)), but that does not mean that its illegal to do so all over Europe.
...
In the first case it may e considered in bad taste everywhere though
t
well actually the other way around, you'd need to change the password and then turn it off as otherwise you couldnt get on to change the password :)
t
Hmmm .... now did the holes have to be unique within what you found or unique within what the whole group found? As if it were the latter and there were 25 people on the course and he wanted 10 unique security holes from each then maybe a complaint should go in and he be required to prove that there were 250 unique holes for the class to find!
t
hmmm ... personally I run gbpvr on XP which is free but not open source. Probably supports less cards than Snapstream, (needs hardware encoding ... I use a PVR250), but seems to give good results.
t
Exactly ....
t
The Media Portal software appears to be a port of the media center from the xbox platform to normal Windows. Hence it doesn't require an Xbox. I.e. from the requirements page it specifies WinXP SP1 or SP2.
t
homepage seems to indicate 0.1.0.0 not 1.0 ... i.e. beta not release ....
t
We've had these, or things that look just like these in the UK for quite some time. Looking cool in, IMHO, would not really be possible .... and of course there is the question that people ponder over about whether if one was stopped suddenly it would start rolling end of end .... :)
t
... on Windows pretty much stick with the default directories, (although admitedly they are mapped on to a Samba share of one of my Linux servers so if i need to wipe windows its nothing to worry about), I do have a habit though of creating a directory called installers on one of the drives with sub directories of drivers, apps, ms etc which any patches, apps or drivers which i download which I actually use get put into ... hence if i need to reinstall i can keep track of roughly what was on there before.
... well when i have a home directory on a system to keep things in i tend to have bin, scripts (for admin scripts i'm working on), docs, patches, temp# (where # increases dependent on how stenuously I housekeep) and of course thorw away areas like fred and bert. I will (at work) tend to have a /installers on any machine i've built with stashes of useful stuff for that machine or other machines near it (network wise), e.g. AIX maintenance level patch packs. My record for /installers (on a production system) was 30gb (and it was even in the system design document. Up to recently in a team i worked in we were still using X-Terminals off of a rs6000 ... every so often i have to do house keeping on the system (which had accounts for approx 9 sys-admins and 6 dba's) ... my hjome directory tended to be several orders of magnitude large than the majority of the others :)
On Unix
t
I agree with this totally. Sitebar is easy to setup, (assuming that you have MySQL and Apache installed). I combine it with a dyndns account which means that i can access the same bookmarks at home, at work or if i am away.
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And it just works
t
To right ... a friend of mine picked up a HPLJ4+ off ebay uk for 25 quid ... it didnt work at first (due to a stuck cooling fan) but 10mins with a screwdriver and its fine and will last her for years !
t
On the music side my mp3's are sitting on a samba share on my main linux server so are accessble over my network to any of the other machines on it ... I also have ampache setup so that i can stream audio straight out to winamp (or equivalent) on any of the machines as well. I am not able to stream to my HiFi with the kit I have but I tend to listen to stuff whilst doing something on the PC anyway so that doesnt really matter. This means that my CD collection, (from which ALL of the mp3 have come from), can be stored away.
... this has a large disk, a PVR250 and a graphics card with TV out. I am not running MythTV (although that is a perfectly valid option, (I tried to use it with a PVR350 had lots of issues so decided against it here)) .... instead I'm using GBPVR ... Its free, (but not open source), and has a similar feature set to MythTV but runs on Windows instead. The shuttle box is connected by wireless to the lan for downloading EPG updates etc. This is used for time shifting TV programs ... (although if anybody has any recommendations on how to convert mpeg2 video (3Gb/Hour) to a smaller format for longer term storage ... (e.g. divx? ... I've done it before but the brightness of the recording seems to reduced quite significantly)). The box also has a DVD writer, (and software for multiregion playback)
On the video side I have a little shuttle box connected to my TV
Tim
You don't need a 1-800 number for a manual ... just refer to Amazon :)
see here
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.... who slashdotted the site on Herring Farting ...? :)
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