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Run Other PCs from your PPC
![]() Wired has a feature story on Austrian tech columnist, Teddy The Bear who can be seen showing off his Apple Powerbook's OS X desktop in Vienna via his 640x480 VGA Wi-Fi Pocket PC. Teddy says he uses his remote setup for "productivity (email, surfing, word-processing), queuing up TV shows to record on his Mac using EyeTV, and accessing his digital media files back at home." Don't get too excited, though. A lot of the underlying research technology, originally developed at AT&T (Bell) Labs, and now taken over by the RealVNC Open Source project, was designed for "older" operating system environments. You'll still have to search around to find a version that will work with, say, your latest ARM and SH4 processors. ...and if your remote computer crashes, you're obviously going to get disconnected. Source: [ eHomeUpgrade ] |
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Fully Converged
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... but I have been doing this with my X50v all the time!
Attached is a screenshot of me connecting wirelessly to my home computer via Remote Client access, at this very moment ![]() Windows Remote Desktop, which is included with Win XP Pro and Win Server 2003 proved to be even more efficient than RealVNC. |
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just kinda geeky
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It's technologies like this...
...that would make me convert to a PPC guy and buy one of those powerful gadgets. Or, maybe the software will be ready by the time the 2006 Wi-Fi Zodiac emerges from my thoughts.
Being able to control my desktop from my handheld would just be amazing. POL9A |
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Alex this screenshot rocks! I really envy you for your toy. Wireless and access to a remote desktop PC... my dream would come true!
Btw is that iSilo that I see there sitting in your upper left taskbar? ![]() |
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VNC for Palm OS
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PalmVNC: http://www.palmgear.com/index.cfm?fu...1&prodID=46656 and micro-VNC: http://www.palmgear.com/index.cfm?fu...1&prodID=72847 |
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Technology Mercenary
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It is for this reason, I prefer to use ssh for remote admin over vnc. These (Palm) apps, while a good start, aren't ready for real production use yet. |
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PalmVNC on the Zodiac with a WiFi card works pretty good (and PalmVNC will - with some coaxing - use the whole screen).
It's great fun to mess with my co-worker's PC from the bathroom stall. |
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MobileRead Editor
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Here's a screenshot: ![]() Hacker, make sure you're using the latest version (2.0.6-dev). I found the same colorizing problems you mention with v2.0 on my Zodiac. Brian Last edited by ballistic; 01-19-2005 at 06:24 PM. |
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Remember... Although it works over a LAN, don't expect it to work with a usable speed over the internet. While a LAN, even wireless, is anywhere from (usually) 11 mbps to 100 (or even 1000) mbps, internet rarely exceeds 4-5 mbps.
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MR prodigal son
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I haven't used VNC on my ppc, but have had the beta for pcanywhere working beautifully (admittedly using activesync to connect to a pc first) until the beta expired.
My next device _will_ have wifi....and VGA..... and bluetooth.... Craig. |
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Does anyone know if there is the possiblitiy to do X Windows forwarding via ssh on a handheld? Zaurus handhelds perhaps? |
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Wow, I go away for a few days and there's a flurry about my post! How cool! Discussion is how we figure out what works best!
![]() The only "plus side" to the RealVNC tools, that I could see, was that you could use them on multiple platforms. I agree with the others that the Remote Desktop, or PCAnywhere type choices may work better (or free), I just hadn't found anything that would span so many OS types. Not a perfect solution, but "A" solution. ![]() |
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Infinite Oblivion
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Interesting
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