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March 08, 2005
Sad Day For Democracy In Europe
Today European Council totally un-democratically moved on legalising software patents, despite European Parlament, general public and the whole software industry strongly resisted the act. This directive is about to destroy a whole industry, making small software business and non-commercial development impossible.
Seriously, this case of software patentability has proved democracy in European Union is a joke. Large multinational corporations rule both EU and USA.
Seriously, this case of software patentability has proved democracy in European Union is a joke. Large multinational corporations rule both EU and USA.
March 07, 2005
TightVNC & SSH
Tried ssh tunneled TightVNC session from Win32 to Debian Linux server today. Getting it up and running was straight-forward:
I figured out some of these details after reading this article.
I also installed Debian package icewm and patched ~/.vnc/xstartup to start icewm. Desktop size can be forced by entering a $geometry entry in /etc/vnc.conf.
Biggest benefits of TightVNC over remove X sessions seem to be lower bandwith requirements and the ability to disconnect session.
- Install TightVNC Viewer from http://www.tightvnc.com/
- Install Debian package tightvncserver
- Set up ssh tunnel for port 5902
- Run tightvncserver from ssh prompt
- Connect TightVNC Viewer to localhost:5902
I figured out some of these details after reading this article.
I also installed Debian package icewm and patched ~/.vnc/xstartup to start icewm. Desktop size can be forced by entering a $geometry entry in /etc/vnc.conf.
Biggest benefits of TightVNC over remove X sessions seem to be lower bandwith requirements and the ability to disconnect session.