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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 -- Leon Brocard.............................http://www.astray.com/ scribot.................................http://www.scribot.com/ ... To err is human, to moo bovine
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