what is VNC?

Tuesday, February 12, 20085:46 AMEd [EMAIL PROTECTED]

>You will love leopard built in VNC in the finder.
>I use it everyday running the computers in the house.
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
>Jonathan Fletcher
>Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2008 12:51 AM
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: Re: [MacGroup] 10.5.2
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>On Feb 11, 2008, at 11:02 PM, Jerry Freeman  
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>> safari and mail both seem snappier. did apple get webkit into safari
>> 3.04? best...jf
>>
>> On Feb 11, 2008, at 5:31 PM, Ed Wiser wrote:
>>
>>> In software update
>
>Yeah, Baby.
>
>I have Leo running on an old G4 1Ghz in the closet, so I updated it  
>to 10.5.2 a few hours ago. I read Jerry's message and thought I'd  
>check it out. Now, you must realize that machine is on a shelf in my  
>closet--an arduous 8 foot walk from my desk. So I did what any lazy  
>geek would do: I VNCed into it. I have Remote Desktop running on it  
>and I use Chicken of the VNC to access it from my MacBook Pro  
>(running Tiger still, but not for long) on my desktop over, oops, I  
>haven't switched to ethernet--I'm still on wireless G, I just realized!
>
>Anyway, I had fired up the new Safari and was checking out a few  
>sites, and one site led to another and things were working fine and  
>after about ten minutes of site-hopping thought, "Hey, I'm remotely  
>accessing this machine over my network and running Safari from  
>another computer and I forgot that I wasn't running Safari from my  
>local computer!"
>
>It wasn't until I was writing this note that I noticed that I was  
>using wireless and not (what I thought was) Gigabit ethernet!
>
>I guess that's the long version of, "Dang Skippy, it's fast!"
>
>And to answer Jerry, all the discussion of the subject that I dug up  
>through my black-belt-level Google-foo said no to the new webkit  
>being in 10.5.2.
>
>j.
>
>P.S. Man, gotta lay off the Diet Coke after 10 at night!
>
>--
>Jonathan Fletcher
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Project Foreman
>NewMedia Construction Co.
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