Seems like not many choices... But who needs many choices if it works well? In the Windows world the choices seem to never end.
VNC is the old tried and true. It is great over LAN, ok over fast WAN connections, but seems to leave something to be desired over typical internet connections. The speed just isn't stellar. Worse, if you want to share YOUR existing desktop on Linux, it affects your video performance. It is universal though, I can connect to my mum (secure over ssh tunneling of course) and fix things on her XP machine.
NX... what great promise it has and has had and had and had. It does what people thought was impossible - it speeds up remote X sessions to almost local speed. The commercial server starts at $800. But no fear, there are open source servers that use the NX libraries.
The problem is the free NX client (nxclient) is pretty much the only offering out there to view a remote session. It comes in Windows, Mac, Linux, and other flavors. It works quite well in many cases except this one: attach to a shared local desktop (or shadow session) with the client on a modern Linux distribution. If you do this - the keyboard is all messed up. An up-arrow causes a PrintScreen button to be pushed and so on.
So... if you are ok with mouse / keyboard input turned off - I guess it will work ok. Our options are slim, so that's the way we will be using it. Sure would be nice though if a Linux user could see my Linux desktop and interact with it as well as a Windows or Mac user could!
If we were "real men", we'd take the open source NX libraries and put our own working NX Client together ourselves. Which, if we have slow times, I'm sure that will be discussed.
Thursday, June 17, 2010
Saturday, June 12, 2010
big week
A very busy week that has so far turned out very good.
In addition to the normal life stuff, I did a ton of zipping around trying to grow our little business. I'm trying to get more use of our Loader product, save XP machines from landfills, and get another software developer.
Demo "Loader" to local computer shop.
This went really well despite more poor preparedness. I managed to lose my flash drive (boot media) in the last 10 minutes before I went out the door. I searched frantically, then built up a new usb flash drive. When I got to the computer (repair) store, they had DHCP so I demoed an XP install on my Dell Mini 9. They were interested in trying it on a computer on the bench. When it worked flawlessly except for missing one driver they were impressed; basically, "we've got to have it!" Not alot of money involved, but we have to start somewhere and they are willing to work through bugs.
Hiring a third.
We've been wanting to do this far a long time. I've had my eyes set on an unnamed person and we finally have enough stability that I feel comfortable asking this person to join us. Crossing fingers.
XBMC Demo.
I went to the ISLUG meeting this week. It got off to a slow start. I was 10 minutes late and there was one other person. I expected them to already be ooowing and aaahing over XBMC, but it took at least another 1/2 hour for that to happen. Joshua Clark has posted a bit on the ISLUG site. It will likely replace my Freevo setup that I have had for 7 years.
Demo "Loader" to ERGS.
My family and I went to Salt Lake City today (Saturday). Our plan was to go to the Zoo, then Electroregeneration Society, then the Discovery Museum, then somewhere fun for dinner - The Maya . It ended up very different. We arrived at the Zoo quite late with wind and rain following us there - so we skipped that. We took care of some family wardrobe malfunctions at Walmart. Then what... We decided to go to the Gateway mall, ate at Applebee's, and my mom and I walked to ERGS while my wife and kids checked out build-a-bear etc and went to the Discovery Museum without us.
ERGS, was great! I had a good time talking with Jerry. Learning about their operation. I really hope we can get something like it fired up in Pocatello and Idaho Falls. I'll post more on this later.
Showing off the Loader was fun and worked great on a random box we grabbed. I'm very close to all the details with it so I enjoy explaining and answering questions. Jerry liked it, we will talk more about how they can implement it there. We will donate use of it to them -- to get things rolling.
In addition to the normal life stuff, I did a ton of zipping around trying to grow our little business. I'm trying to get more use of our Loader product, save XP machines from landfills, and get another software developer.
Demo "Loader" to local computer shop.
This went really well despite more poor preparedness. I managed to lose my flash drive (boot media) in the last 10 minutes before I went out the door. I searched frantically, then built up a new usb flash drive. When I got to the computer (repair) store, they had DHCP so I demoed an XP install on my Dell Mini 9. They were interested in trying it on a computer on the bench. When it worked flawlessly except for missing one driver they were impressed; basically, "we've got to have it!" Not alot of money involved, but we have to start somewhere and they are willing to work through bugs.
Hiring a third.
We've been wanting to do this far a long time. I've had my eyes set on an unnamed person and we finally have enough stability that I feel comfortable asking this person to join us. Crossing fingers.
XBMC Demo.
I went to the ISLUG meeting this week. It got off to a slow start. I was 10 minutes late and there was one other person. I expected them to already be ooowing and aaahing over XBMC, but it took at least another 1/2 hour for that to happen. Joshua Clark has posted a bit on the ISLUG site. It will likely replace my Freevo setup that I have had for 7 years.
Demo "Loader" to ERGS.
My family and I went to Salt Lake City today (Saturday). Our plan was to go to the Zoo, then Electroregeneration Society, then the Discovery Museum, then somewhere fun for dinner - The Maya . It ended up very different. We arrived at the Zoo quite late with wind and rain following us there - so we skipped that. We took care of some family wardrobe malfunctions at Walmart. Then what... We decided to go to the Gateway mall, ate at Applebee's, and my mom and I walked to ERGS while my wife and kids checked out build-a-bear etc and went to the Discovery Museum without us.
ERGS, was great! I had a good time talking with Jerry. Learning about their operation. I really hope we can get something like it fired up in Pocatello and Idaho Falls. I'll post more on this later.
Showing off the Loader was fun and worked great on a random box we grabbed. I'm very close to all the details with it so I enjoy explaining and answering questions. Jerry liked it, we will talk more about how they can implement it there. We will donate use of it to them -- to get things rolling.
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