FreeNX

Just needed to do some remote work and found FreeNX, its very funky. Its a remote
desktop protocol, but nice and fast. I believe it makes use of X11 and compresses it somehow.
I needed to run some graphical programs as root, but kept getting the message
couldnt open display.
sudo cp $HOME/.Xauthority /root/.Xauthority
Managed to fix it [...]

Posted at 9:40 pm on September 20, 2009 | leave a comment | Filed Under: Uncategorized | read on

A little essay on Open Source

1 Introduction
Open Source and Creative Commons licences provide a means for the dissem-
ination of material be that code, art or scientific research. The reasons for
using such a licence are many, in this paper we consider both the advantages
and disadvantages of doing so.
The Open Source Initiative (http://www.opensource.org/) provides a definition [...]

Posted at 3:00 pm on April 17, 2009 | leave a comment | Filed Under: Uncategorized | read on

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