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From: Leon Brocard
Subject: VNC
Date: 14:21 on 19 Jan 2004
VNC is a wonderful idea. Make anything a remote desktop. Anything can
be a client. As always, it falls down in implementation. Software!

OK, so I'm mostly talking about Mac OS X VNC clients and servers
here. But wait, isn't this supposed to be a simple open protocol that
anyone can implement? So why is it dog slow and why do I keep on
finding VNC clients and servers that don't interoperate?

It's just silly. But not as silly as the name "Chicken of the VNC"
that is a popular OS X VNC client. Or it would be, I presume, if I
could get it to talk to anything.

Thus I blame everyone. It shouldn't be hard to write a client. Writing
a server could be a little tricker, granted, but a client for a
well-documented not-really-new-is-it protocol? Hey, maybe I'll do it
myself 'cos everyone else appears to be failing completely.

I hear rdesktop is better. But can it really be? I mean, it's
software...

Bah, Leon
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