freshmeat.net: Project details for NoMachine NX
NoMachine NX is a fast terminal server system
based on the X11 protocol. In addition, NX also
translates and embeds the MS Windows Terminal
Server and VNC protocols into X/NX. NX is an order
of magnitude faster than VNC or X11 and can run on bandwidth
as narrow as 10 kBit/sec. By embedding RDP and
RFB, it enables users to compress and accelerate
remote Windows and VNC sessions. NX lets you work
fluently even across slow links like modems. The
NX project provides a suite of libraries and X11
proxying agents implementing efficient compression
and optimized transport of X11, SMB, IPP, HTTP, and arbitrary protocols like audio over the
Internet.
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Went to the site and looked around a bit and it sure looks interesting. The works over even slow links like modems is gonna make a lot of new apps available that depend on close machine/desktop interaction that haven’t been possible before now. The times I have had to use pcanywhere over a modem it’s been almost painfully slow. Haven’t tried it over a fast link so no idea but I suspect it takes a lot more pipeline resources than this does.
Treehugger: Organic Farming More Than Competitive
What some of us already knew is being confirmed by a Cornell University study: “Organic farming produces the same yields of corn and soybeans as does conventional farming, but uses 30 percent less energy, less water and no pesticides, a review of a 22-year farming trial study concludes.” Of course, the people who make fortunes selling fertilizer, herbicides, pesticides, GMO crops, etc, don’t want people to know that.
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It’s the little things that make the difference but tech makes the news and news sells product. I’ll take the odor of cow shit over chemical fertilizer any day.
We just got to get small. Big just don’t always (any time?) work!
Canal could cause earthquakes, Egypt warns | The Register
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Little things overlooked (or ignored) in these massive projects can lead to interesting side effects.
Of course, so do tsunamis…
U.S. and Australia OK secret climate pact
The secret pact was designed to reduce greenhouse emissions, but not harm development or economic growth.
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This sounds way too much like the double secret suspension in “Animal House”. What a bunch of horse hockey, or it would be if it wasn’t our elected leaders (?) pulling this shit… 🙁
New Scientist Breaking News – Claims of GM-field ‘superweed’ are dismissed
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So who’s lying? Who’s covering up? And who’s just in it for a story? I don’t think they know enough to be making blanket statements on what can and what can’t be passed on and what is sterile and what isn’t quite yet.
Everybody loves Eric Raymond » Sell out
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This comic is hilarious! I don’t think they can keep it up but hope I’m wrong.
mobiBLU America
Not real sure what to say about this one-a one inch cube mp3 player. The ultimate in portability, and sure to get washed by 43% of its owners in the first week. Then again, the kind of people that would pay $130.00 for a 1 GB 1″ cube mp3 player may not do their laundry as often as every week…..
“This site may or may not work in Internet Explorer”
“I may or may not care if it does or not”
(Sorry, but someone had to say it….)
GM crop creates a ‘superweed’
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But that can’t happen! Looks like it can too. Now how much of the other stuff out there is gonna crossbred and spread?
Ocean spray lubricates hurricane winds
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So if we can figure a way to dry those nasty ole hurricanes out, the winds wouldn’t be so bad? 😉
Treehugger: Man Retrofits Freezer to Make an Ultra-Efficient Fridge
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Makes lots of sense to me. Harder to get to stuff but with racks and such shouldn’t be that big a deal.
Yahoo!, here we come!
Konfabulator has bought by Yahoo! And they released it for free! Cross platform, at least mac and ms.
Looks interesting. Just not sure yet. Will give it a fair shake-down and decide. So far nothing that came with it interests me enough to keep it turned on but that’s on a quick look-see and I am not that impressed with flash and glitter and it has a lot of that. Eye-candy is the term I was looking for there.
Microsoft’s Earth deletes Apple HQ | The Register
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This kind of thing is a problem with any big company with lots of departments that is too big for any one person or group to monitor all of. But this is just plain stupid on any of MicroSloths employees parts. They keep acting kinda like a dying dinosaur, flopping around and breaking even more things while dying. And lets not even think about the latest patents they are trying to get. Someone should open source breathing while they still can!
I have been reading Scoble for a view of from the inside because I just couldn’t see that the entire company could be as bad as I thought they were. I stuck with his blog for quite a while but he has been on a “tablet pc’s are SO great” rant for so long now that it’s gotten more than a little old.
I didn’t when they first came out and today still don’t see the value in “me” owning one. For me, typing is a lot faster than writing (not to mention a lot less painful) and a touchpad or mouse is a lot cheaper to replace than a screen. All I use anymore is a laptop and yes they can be a bit clumsy to work with out on the road but most places I need a computer it works, and I don’t have to clean the skin oil off screen or try to see around my hand when trying to do something.
Anyway, back to Scoble “The Microsoft Evangelist”. So when the only retort he had yesterday about Apple pundits making fun of the “new” name for Longhorn was yea but yall don’t have tablet pc’s yet, I removed him from my feed. Sorry, I’ve tried time and again, but I see nothing about the company that is of any redeeming value.
★ The Joy of Tech! ★
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Vista – n.
1 – A distant view or prospect, especially one seen through an opening, as between rows of buildings or trees.
An avenue or other passage affording such a view.
2 – An awareness of a range of time, events, or subjects; a broad mental view: “the deep and sweeping vistas these pioneering critics opened up†(Arthur C. Danto).
A distant view of something never to be seen up close?
» Blog Archive » Windows Memory Lane Is Lined With Monsters
I broke one of my own rules today…or almost did, the fact that I even considered it jolted me back to reality.
I came extremely close to helping a friend with a “Windows Problem.†I believe the operative and pivotal term here is “closeâ€.
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I know that one only too well. I have 3 people I will work on a windows machine for now and try not to even for them.
Helios makes some good points here. I’d like the hear/read the answers too…
Walk the streets in your 4m robot-suit | The Other Side | Breaking News 24/7 – NEWS.com.au (03-05-2005)
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$43,000.00 dollar land walkers for sale. Really. 1.5 kmph. Controlled with 4 peddles in cockpit.
Wonder when the military is going to get a version that’s armored and has real guns?
Or that’s what I keep telling myself.
Keep finding things I want or need to do. Got most of it done though. Only gonna use 2 themes for now though as I don’t think the theme switcher plays right with some of the ones I’ve tried. Gonna look at it more later.
Added a bit over at Murder They Wrote my new Mystery blog.
Been adding some more cover scans over at Nero Wolfe too.
Slow but getting there.
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