Loved the movie, but ended up coming out of it with a real bad taste in my mouth - the robots had to spend all that energy keeping people alive and running the Matrix so they could generate their energy from the heat that human bodies generate? I was (and am still) furious about it. Even though the laws of thermodynamics aren't my favourite laws of physics (things would be so much easier without them), they are still laws of physics. You can't put energy into a closed system and expect more energy out than you put in!
Arg.
They could have done some much better pseudoscience (eg. they needed the human mind's fuzzy logic processing power, and the matrix has problems encoded into it for people to solve), but no. They had to use the human body's heat output.
I am successfully running the windows 3.1 RDP client under Wine. There are a few issues with window focus, but apart from that, it works just fine.
There is a nastier solution as well (which was what I used before Wine started to work).
1. Open up an RDP session on a windows box. 2. run VNC inside that session 3. connect to that vnc session from a linux box 4. make sure that the RDP session is not minimized on the windows box - this will kill the vnc session.
You can use the RDP client from the Terminal Server's console to log the sessions in, by the way.
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Loved the movie, but ended up coming out of it with a real bad taste in my mouth - the robots had to spend all that energy keeping people alive and running the Matrix so they could generate their energy from the heat that human bodies generate? I was (and am still) furious about it. Even though the laws of thermodynamics aren't my favourite laws of physics (things would be so much easier without them), they are still laws of physics. You can't put energy into a closed system and expect more energy out than you put in!
Arg.
They could have done some much better pseudoscience (eg. they needed the human mind's fuzzy logic processing power, and the matrix has problems encoded into it for people to solve), but no. They had to use the human body's heat output.
-vrov
oh, and BTW, you'll need to extract a DLL or two from a windows 3.1 machine. NETAPI.DLL or somesuch.
I am successfully running the windows 3.1 RDP client under Wine. There are a few issues with window focus, but apart from that, it works just fine.
There is a nastier solution as well (which was what I used before Wine started to work).
1. Open up an RDP session on a windows box.
2. run VNC inside that session
3. connect to that vnc session from a linux box
4. make sure that the RDP session is not minimized on the windows box - this will kill the vnc session.
You can use the RDP client from the Terminal Server's console to log the sessions in, by the way.