In the final installment of the SysAdmin Series, I’m going to cover some tools to access a remote system’s desktop using VNC (Virtual Network Computing) clients. I’ll admit that as a sysadmin, I don’t ...

Does anyone have any thoughts re Apple Remote Desktop vs VNC?<BR><BR>I find myself using my MBP most of the time, and rarely directly on the desktop G5 nowadays..so I'd like to have my monitor ...

Remote Desktop is fairly solid tech. The data is both encrypted and compressed, and can provide a reasonably good experience over a 56k connection. You will probably want to disable the eye-candy, as ...

Some veteran technology staffers say that IT is a young man's game, with increasing help desk calls and growing support ratios -- all that running around can be exhausting. However, like I always say, ...

Never has there been a time in history when so many people have had such widespread access to so many computers. Most of us have computers at home and work, and one in every five people now also owns ...

ITworld.com – Send in your Unix questions today! | See additional Unix tips and tricks. Similar to Remote Desktop, VNC (Virtual Network Computing) provides its users with access to remote systems’ ...

For many of us, the days of working with a single Macintosh are long gone. I regularly use my main desktop Power Mac G4, my 12-inch PowerBook G4, the 450 MHz Power Mac G4 that’s our internal file and ...

One of the advantages to using a GNU/Linux system is the separation of the display system from the underlying operating system. The Linux desktop has at its core the X Window System, a software ...

Controlling your PC remotely from your smartphone sounds useful in theory, looks cool as an experiment, and generally proves impractical in everyday use. By contrast, controlling your PC remotely from ...

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