Temperamental VNC

[Ric Moore]

On Thu, 2010-09-02 at 10:55 +0100, Hakan Koseoglu wrote:

> VNC is there because 10 years ago there was no X tunneling, no NX,
> nothing but exporting DISPLAY and transporting X11 across a slow wire.

A little over 10 years. We used tunneling at RedHat in 1999 to run our
Oracle database CRM thingie, via modems, from our office machines to our
home machines. Ah! Cipe! That was the name of it. SSH connection then
cipe got cranked up, then our X11 display shot through the wires at
28.8. You betcha, slow as all hell. Ric


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