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----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, March 11, 2002 1:36 PM Subject: BRIAN LIVINGSTON: "Window Manager" from InfoWorld.com, Monday, March 11, 2002 > ======================================================== > BRIAN LIVINGSTON: "Window Manager" InfoWorld.com > ======================================================== > > Monday, March 11, 2002 > > Advertising Sponsor - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > Sponsored by VeriSign - The Value of Trust > Do you need to encrypt all your online transactions? > Secure corporate intranets? Authenticate your Web site? > Whatever security your site needs, you'll find the > perfect solution in this FREE Guide from VeriSign, > "Securing Your Web site for Business." Get your copy > today to learn the facts! Click here! > http://209.1.23.30/go/ifw/3993509.htm > > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > > YOUR VIRTUAL NETWORK > > Posted March 8, 2002 01:01 PM Pacific Time > > > I SAID A few weeks ago that I was looking for free or > inexpensive shareware programs that don't just make it > possible for you to perform a task but actually do the > task for you (see " > http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/02/02/18/020218oplivingston.xml > ," Feb. 18). Such products might be called one-click > wonders because they encapsulate what used to be a > tedious manual process into little more than a single > Go command. > > Since then, I've received many nominations from > readers. I don't plan to crown a single winner. > Instead, I'll periodically describe over the next > several months the best of my readers' proposed > applications as I test them all. > > First up is a deceptively simple program that's a > powerful helpmate. Reader Thomas Price raves about the > freeware he uses to expose any gremlins haunting the > far-flung menagerie of hardware and software he > supports in his company. > > "One of the greatest inventions in shareware history is > VNC (Virtual Network Computing) from AT&T Research > Labs Cambridge," says Price. "I can easily > troubleshoot any problem a user is experiencing. Being > able to see what is happening on the desktop, instead > of the user saying, 'It is frozen up and won't work,' > is wonderful." > > There are many programs that provide you with the > ability to view the screen on a remote PC. But VNC, > besides being free, has the advantage that it's truly > a cross-platform tool. > > >From a PC, you can use VNC to see what's transpiring on > a Linux machine, or Solaris, or many others. Different > versions of the program run on Windows 9x/NT/2000 > platforms as well as Windows CE, Mac, and the > aforementioned Linux and Solaris. > > VNC is also compact. You can run the Win32 viewer from > a 150KB file on a floppy, with no installation > necessary. What's more, you can walk away from one PC > running VNC, go to another that may be in the next > cubicle or miles away, and reconnect to the machine > you were originally working on. Everything you were > doing will still be there. You can even finish typing > a sentence that you'd begun on the original PC. > > "The beauty of the product is that you don't need any > special software on your computer to view the remote > computer, just a Web browser that supports Java," > Price adds. > > "To view a computer named AR1," Price continues, "just > type in your browser http://AR1:5800, enter the > password for the remote desktop, and you can see > everything going on remotely. This program has saved > me hundreds of miles of driving. I can pull up > desktops across any of my four locations. They range > in distance, from our headquarters, from 10 miles to > 250 miles." > > To get VNC, go to > http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/download.html . > > Reader Price will receive a gift certificate for a free > book, CD, or DVD of his choice for being the first to > send me a tip I printed. > > Send tips to [EMAIL PROTECTED] He regrets > that he cannot answer individual questions. 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