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VNC is a very useful
piece of software (now supported by RealVNC)
that allows you to control one computer from another's desktop.
It
is free, source code is available, it is quite small and is available
on
many platforms.
It also allows you to control a PC from a UNIX box or visa versa. In
fact
you could even access your PC's desktop from a PalmPilot (since the
Pilot's
screen is so much smaller that the average PC this is really a
technical
curiosity, but it works and may occasionally be useful). In fact, this
software is a lot like Norton's PC-Anywhere except its free and works
many
places Norton's will not. Another project called TightVNC
exists (reviewed here)
that is working to improve VNC's performance over bandwidth limited
connections.
Here's a simple "macro"
capability for automating a VNC session. Recently (1 Feb 01) a web
based service from
GoToMyPC.com to do
this has also shown up. It appears that webex
and Control-F1 also have
similar
technologies. vncrec
is a tool to record VNC server sessions as a movie. CamStudio
is another package that can be used for capturing screen sequences. A guide
to capturing a screen sequence and saving it as flash using vnc2swf,
there is another guide to this here
which also mentions using the Windows Media Encoder package to do the
same thing (but producing larger files). Here is another
guide, this time using pyvnc2swf on a Linux system.
ThinkNic is a diskless
workstation
aimed at the internet terminal niche. For US$199.00 and no more
fees
it sounds rather interesting. Here is an artical
on using these to run some form of Linux.
- 2007-Nov-28: The hotwire-shell project is a Python based system for remote administration, in Nov'07 the project worked for UNIX and Windows development was in the early stages. [4207]
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