The one thing about VNC that people rarely notice, is how hard it is on
your CPU, and what a bandwidth hog it is. It's also pretty inefficient on
win32, although the unix ports are beginning to mature ..
Overall, it's a great deal .. just beware of the cpu and b/w utilization..
Jonathan
At 10:02 PM 6/29/2000 -0500, you wrote:
>I have to concur with Rocky on this one. I have been using VNC for about a 2
>years with zero issues. It is an open source project. The main advantages is
>that it runs on several platforms: Linux, Solaris, Win9x/NT/2000, and OSPF
>are all official ports. There user contributed ports to everything from HPUX
>to a DOS client. There are even Java, Mac, and Windows CE clients for it.
>It was started at Olivetti Labs before ATT bought them out. You will find it
>at:
>http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/
>
>Thanks,
>David Sparkman
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Rocky Rapson
>Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2000 12:24 PM
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Imail + pcA: 2 thumbs up or ?
>
>
>I've never really liked PC Anywhere, but someone on this listed a long time
>back mentioned a program called WinVNC - a free remote control application
>(including source!). I don't have the address handy, if I remember
>correctly it's AT&T in England. Just do a web search on winvnc and you
>should find it.
>
>It works great, and is faster than both Timbuktu and PCA. Another big plus
>is it's stateless, meaning that if you accidently drop your connection, you
>can just log back in and pick-up where you left off. I've been running it
>for a couple of months now on multiple servers, and it is rock-solid. Never
>had a problem with it.
>
>Rocky
>----- Original Message -----
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>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2000 09:21 AM
>Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Imail + pcA: 2 thumbs up or ?
>
>
> >what so ever. I also have an alias set-up that will stop and restart the
>services if
>
>An alias that can stop and restart a service? How does that work?
>
>Thanks.
>
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