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Ask and ye shall receive. Go here for an article from the January 2002 Linux Journal that explains how to use VNC to do exactly what you want.
A snippet from the article:
This two-part series presents a novel way to set up a VNC-based X Window System desktop for your Linux system. By the end of this two-part series, you'll have a configuration that allows users to log in to their X-Window desktop (running GNOME, KDE or other preferred window manager environment) via a display manager (like GDM, KDM or XDM). More importantly, the user will have secure access to the same desktop in the same state from the workstation console and anywhere else on a network.
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Ummm...you really should look here for supplying those graphic designers and DTP people with compentent tools. Linux is not the hammer for that screw.
Off-topic content: Wow! That's exactly what we need at work. We are always trying to figure out where to go to lunch but no one can ever decide. So we end up driving around until we get tired and then just pull into somewhere.:)
Slightly on-topic content: Oh, and if we could mount it under the Kitchen cabinet in the break room it would be really cool.
Another service that takes advantage of recency is something we just added called Overview of Today's Headlines. Google reads all the newspapers on the Web every hour and constructs a newspaper for the world by computer--no humans are involved.
This is a pretty cool idea. I only hope they make a RSS feed out of it so that I can use it in my companies new Portal environment. That would be really great! I love Google!
Yipes! You think this is funny, but I was eating at Hooters restaurant (nice atmosphere:) and all the T.V.s had a left-side and bottom advert "frame" with the actual content in the upper right hand side of the screen. It was very interesting to see a Bud commercial next to Coca-Cola commercial. They eventually removed the frames.
What about network IO? How do you get decent throughput numbers on your VMs when everyone is trying to stuff IP down one wire? Even Gigabit Ethernet would crumplt under 500 slashdot type sites. Even if you get it out of the machine, do you have problems getting it out onto the Internet?
What about failures? What happens when the HD/case fan/power supply/memory fails? Ok, ok, I guess this is heavy duty IBM mainframe stuff so it probably has lots of redundency built-in.
Isn't there some reasons to have servers located across the (US|world)?
Yea, I didn't see any expandable memory slots in the specifications. A SONY Memory Stick or MMC slot would do wonders for this device and couldn't raise the price much.
Again, Mhz alone does not reveal much about the overall speed of this machine. You need to take the whole package into account. My first Amiga only ran at 8Mhz, yet it could do so much more than the PeeCees running @ 25Mhz.
WOW! This looks like something that Apple (sh|w)ould do. It looks as big as a Newton 120 (which I currently use) but with a good screen and lots more horsepower. It plays MP3 (what about OGG?), renders real HTML in full color, and the price seems right (300BP). Too bad it's not available in the US, I might be tempted to get one. After all, my Newton 120 is getting quite old and I need something to stand out in the sea of Palm & WinCE devices.
No, bleeding edge newest kernels are the 2.5.x series. What he's ranting and raving about it that he is using a supposedly stable kernel version (2.4.x) in a production environment. There are lots of things 2.4 provides that 2.2 did not do well.
Yup, here it is. It's a graphical configuration interface for the LOADLIN bootloader. It also has multi-language support including English, French, German, Italian and Spanish.
That can't be correct. CD-ROM (and I suspect DVD) disks do not have spiral tracks like a vinal record does. Their tracks are layed out in concentric circles. So, I don't imagine that there would be any difficulty reading a disk spinning backwards; if it does in fact spin backwards.
Again, I call this out as VAPOR-ware! I want to hear from someone who has run this, or better yet I want to run it myself, before I give any credit to them. And then only if they didn't fork WINE.
What would keep someone from using this on a non-Windows platform? Just the software? What does the software do? Is it complicated DSP stuff or does it plunk a thunk into the system so that it "thinks" there is a PCI card in the machine? Is this just another incantation of a WinModem?
Will the Linux Standard Base specification make Linux more vulnerable to viri? Currently, one of the "strengths" of Linux is it's non-homogenous nature. Every distro. has it's own way of doing things (Slackware vs. Red Hat:), hence a virus has a lot of ground to cover. However, if everybody follows the LSB do we become much easier to infect?
The larger bandwidth of a broadband connection will open the door to the downloading of movies, TV programs and video games via the Internet, the sources said.
Wow, I've only been waiting for a broadband connection to my house for about 5 years now. It's good to know that I only have 5 more years to wait. And then someone will install SpyWare on my refridgerator and I'll get coupons for Ben & Jerry's and Weight Watchers.
I still think this product is *VAPOR*! Has anyone actually ran it? Does it perform as advertised? Is there a list of things that do run? Can we get some outside confirmation that this thing actually exists?
Hell, anyone can claim that they have Windows running on anything. If fact, I am working on getting MS Office running on my Amiga 2000. Seriously! It should be out in a couple of months. Just send me $69US and I'll put you on the list.
BTW: The above is NOT TRUE, just my example of VAPOR. Do not send me any money expecting to get Amiga software in return.
Well, I hate to say it but I have always really liked Microsoft hardware. My optical Intellimouse is incredible! And I have heard nothing but good things about the MS keyboard.
OTOH, I think the XBox is not going to make it. Sure, it will have a few bright spots but I don't think there is room in the console market for 3 companies; and Nintendo & Sony aren't going to be beat out by a upstart newcommer no matter how much money it has.
Well, if they tape a couple of $100 bills to the inside of the XBox I might purchase one.:)
Well, the rendering is faster than NS (it beats the pants off of NS when rendering long/. pages!) but it just "feels" much slower. I have started working with the Tabbed interface in Mozilla and opening a new tab/switching between tabs on the Mac is "dog-slow".:(
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Ask and ye shall receive. Go here for an article from the January 2002 Linux Journal that explains how to use VNC to do exactly what you want.
A snippet from the article:
This two-part series presents a novel way to set up a VNC-based X Window System desktop for your Linux system. By the end of this two-part series, you'll have a configuration that allows users to log in to their X-Window desktop (running GNOME, KDE or other preferred window manager environment) via a display manager (like GDM, KDM or XDM). More importantly, the user will have secure access to the same desktop in the same state from the workstation console and anywhere else on a network.
Ummm...you really should look here for supplying those graphic designers and DTP people with compentent tools. Linux is not the hammer for that screw.
Hmmm... I'm not sure that calling anyone repeatedly just to tie up a phone line is legal. Isn't that some sort of harassment?
Off-topic content: :)
Wow! That's exactly what we need at work. We are always trying to figure out where to go to lunch but no one can ever decide. So we end up driving around until we get tired and then just pull into somewhere.
Slightly on-topic content:
Oh, and if we could mount it under the Kitchen cabinet in the break room it would be really cool.
Another service that takes advantage of recency is something we just added called Overview of Today's Headlines. Google reads all the newspapers on the Web every hour and constructs a newspaper for the world by computer--no humans are involved.
This is a pretty cool idea. I only hope they make a RSS feed out of it so that I can use it in my companies new Portal environment. That would be really great! I love Google!
Check it out here.
Yipes! You think this is funny, but I was eating at Hooters restaurant (nice atmosphere :) and all the T.V.s had a left-side and bottom advert "frame" with the actual content in the upper right hand side of the screen. It was very interesting to see a Bud commercial next to Coca-Cola commercial. They eventually removed the frames.
What about network IO? How do you get decent throughput numbers on your VMs when everyone is trying to stuff IP down one wire? Even Gigabit Ethernet would crumplt under 500 slashdot type sites. Even if you get it out of the machine, do you have problems getting it out onto the Internet?
What about failures? What happens when the HD/case fan/power supply/memory fails? Ok, ok, I guess this is heavy duty IBM mainframe stuff so it probably has lots of redundency built-in.
Isn't there some reasons to have servers located across the (US|world)?
Opps, I just saw that they have a multimedia card drive accessory that accepts 16mb, 32mb, 64mb cards. They don't say what type of card it is though.
Yea, I didn't see any expandable memory slots in the specifications. A SONY Memory Stick or MMC slot would do wonders for this device and couldn't raise the price much.
Again, Mhz alone does not reveal much about the overall speed of this machine. You need to take the whole package into account. My first Amiga only ran at 8Mhz, yet it could do so much more than the PeeCees running @ 25Mhz.
WOW! This looks like something that Apple (sh|w)ould do. It looks as big as a Newton 120 (which I currently use) but with a good screen and lots more horsepower. It plays MP3 (what about OGG?), renders real HTML in full color, and the price seems right (300BP). Too bad it's not available in the US, I might be tempted to get one. After all, my Newton 120 is getting quite old and I need something to stand out in the sea of Palm & WinCE devices.
Yea, it works the same way on my Win2000 box. Is this a security bug? :)
No, bleeding edge newest kernels are the 2.5.x series. What he's ranting and raving about it that he is using a supposedly stable kernel version (2.4.x) in a production environment. There are lots of things 2.4 provides that 2.2 did not do well.
Don't flame the man for using a stable kernel!
...good programmers create; great programmers steal.
That's Funny! Offtopic sure, but it still caused Coke to shoot out of my nose this morning! :)
Yup, here it is. It's a graphical configuration interface for the LOADLIN bootloader. It also has multi-language support including English, French, German, Italian and Spanish.
Wow, this is getting to be a giant, real-life sized game of RISK. :)
That can't be correct. CD-ROM (and I suspect DVD) disks do not have spiral tracks like a vinal record does. Their tracks are layed out in concentric circles. So, I don't imagine that there would be any difficulty reading a disk spinning backwards; if it does in fact spin backwards.
Again, I call this out as VAPOR-ware! I want to hear from someone who has run this, or better yet I want to run it myself, before I give any credit to them. And then only if they didn't fork WINE.
Bah! This is garbage.
What would keep someone from using this on a non-Windows platform? Just the software? What does the software do? Is it complicated DSP stuff or does it plunk a thunk into the system so that it "thinks" there is a PCI card in the machine? Is this just another incantation of a WinModem?
Will the Linux Standard Base specification make Linux more vulnerable to viri? Currently, one of the "strengths" of Linux is it's non-homogenous nature. Every distro. has it's own way of doing things (Slackware vs. Red Hat :), hence a virus has a lot of ground to cover. However, if everybody follows the LSB do we become much easier to infect?
Yea, and I like this statment:
:)
The larger bandwidth of a broadband connection will open the door to the downloading of movies, TV programs and video games via the Internet, the sources said.
Wow, I've only been waiting for a broadband connection to my house for about 5 years now. It's good to know that I only have 5 more years to wait. And then someone will install SpyWare on my refridgerator and I'll get coupons for Ben & Jerry's and Weight Watchers.
Hmmmm...maybe that's not such a bad idea...
Man, that just creaps me out! :/
I still think this product is *VAPOR*! Has anyone actually ran it? Does it perform as advertised? Is there a list of things that do run? Can we get some outside confirmation that this thing actually exists?
Hell, anyone can claim that they have Windows running on anything. If fact, I am working on getting MS Office running on my Amiga 2000. Seriously! It should be out in a couple of months. Just send me $69US and I'll put you on the list.
BTW: The above is NOT TRUE, just my example of VAPOR. Do not send me any money expecting to get Amiga software in return.
Well, I hate to say it but I have always really liked Microsoft hardware. My optical Intellimouse is incredible! And I have heard nothing but good things about the MS keyboard.
:)
OTOH, I think the XBox is not going to make it. Sure, it will have a few bright spots but I don't think there is room in the console market for 3 companies; and Nintendo & Sony aren't going to be beat out by a upstart newcommer no matter how much money it has.
Well, if they tape a couple of $100 bills to the inside of the XBox I might purchase one.
Well, the rendering is faster than NS (it beats the pants off of NS when rendering long /. pages!) but it just "feels" much slower. I have started working with the Tabbed interface in Mozilla and opening a new tab/switching between tabs on the Mac is "dog-slow". :(