Re: [CentOS] Re: Please help me rate vnc, rdesktop, and freenx

2007-12-07 Thread Frank Cox
On Fri, 07 Dec 2007 09:56:31 -0800 Bill Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > an idle machine with nothing but a ``screen saver'' running > seemed to have about 30% CPU utilization which dropped near zero > as soon as some activity shut the screen saver down. Some screensavers on Linux do the sam

Re: [CentOS] Re: Please help me rate vnc, rdesktop, and freenx

2007-12-07 Thread Bill Campbell
On Thu, Dec 06, 2007, Scott Silva wrote: >on 12/6/2007 2:57 PM Les Bell spake the following: >>Scott Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>Yeah... ssh into the server, vi whatever.conf re-[start|load] service, exit >>ssh. >>"the simple things are sometimes the best!" >><< >> >>Darn straight. And us

Re: [CentOS] Re: Please help me rate vnc, rdesktop, and freenx

2007-12-06 Thread Dan
Mainly it will all depend on "your" server specifications and network setup. We use VNC to remotely control the Windows boxes on the network and it does an ok job, but even T1 to T1 we have a bit of lag. We also use FreeNX for remote desktop features and it is quite fast from home to office, it do

[CentOS] Re: Please help me rate vnc, rdesktop, and freenx

2007-12-06 Thread Scott Silva
on 12/6/2007 2:57 PM Les Bell spake the following: Scott Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Yeah... ssh into the server, vi whatever.conf re-[start|load] service, exit ssh. "the simple things are sometimes the best!" << Darn straight. And using ssh-agent (or Pageant with PuTTY on Windows) in conj

Re: [CentOS] Re: Please help me rate vnc, rdesktop, and freenx

2007-12-06 Thread Les Bell
Scott Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Yeah... ssh into the server, vi whatever.conf re-[start|load] service, exit ssh. "the simple things are sometimes the best!" << Darn straight. And using ssh-agent (or Pageant with PuTTY on Windows) in conjunction with key forwarding, you can make it easy

[CentOS] Re: Please help me rate vnc, rdesktop, and freenx

2007-12-06 Thread Scott Silva
on 12/6/2007 2:25 PM Robert Moskowitz spake the following: Les Bell wrote: Robert Moskowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 1 to 3 where 1 is the 'best' for the catagory and 3 the loser. << You fogot the ssh/vi combination, which rates 1 across the board. ssh/vi Yeah... ssh into the ser