bugger. News server info please....

it's going to be a little quiet round here for a while. It seems that
over the weekend the company changed their 3rd party proxy provider, and
it would appear in doing so, I no longer have nntp access. Or at least,
not to the German server.

bugger.

Do I recall someone from round these parts running a news server for
this group? Anyone remember who and if it's still working?

Anyone recommend a free to cheap /web based/ news provider?

Assuming I got myself a decent connection at home, is there an easy way
I could get my news via the PC there fed to be accessible from work?

ta muchly

 

Doc used to, but not any more. I could let you have access to mine, if
you've got a fixed IP.

I might be able to help with that, as well. Mail me if you want more info.

Depends what sort of 'net access you've got at work, really.

 

Doesnotcompute wrote

Des and dunno.

 

Eddie wrote:

done just that.

 

You could use something like VNC to access your computer at home and be
free to do whatever you like. Over BB, it's quite usable.

You might want to SSH it to be more secure.

 

I have a feeling the ports VNC likes are closed on the work loop. I've
tried (pathetically) before. I've not liked VNC either - always seemed
sluggish.

whoosh.

 

You can set it to any you like.

Heh.

 

WTS or TightVNC

 

I found tightvnc temperamental, or at least my machine became a bit
unstable, the connection was unreliable and wouldn't reconnect. I
reverted to real vnc.

 

There's also UltraVNC which I tried as it's got file transfer.
However, more often than not the file transfer would stop halfway, and
it didn't seem that stable at first. It seems much better now though.

I notice that tightvnc's got file transfer in it now, so I may go back
to that. What's realVNC like? I've not tried that one.

 

realVNC is the original one the others seem to be based on. Basic.

However it is stable and guaranteed to work every time. No file
transfer, but does have clipboard.

tightvnc has been a real PITA. My main desktop seems to have gained real
mouse problems. The USB mouse freezes and I have to unplug it to get it
working again, this only started following an install of t-vnc. Updated
drivers hasn't helped.

It may be coincidence and my MS optical wheelmouse has gone on the fritz
independently as none of the five other machines are affected (with PS2
mice).

 

VNC sucks, generally though[1], and it's only worth using if you're
some sort of freak who runs multiple operating systems.

[1] Windows Terminal Services beats it into a cocked hat.

 

Well, half-waves as I use synergy for controlling a windows machine and
a linux machine from the same Keyboard+mouse.

In a similar fashion to the CC sub-thread[2], why? I've found that TS
is as fast over a 100mbit lan as ultraVNC over adsl (both ends), and as
no-one else has to use the machine that I'm connecting to there doesn't
seem to be another plus point to bother with it.

I know we've done this before, but I've never seen a compelling
argument of why TS is better than VNC. If there's something then
great, if not then I'll leave this next to the "Linux is better than
Windows!" boredom.

[2] I.e. I forget what I know and see what other people think.

 

this is IME only, but screen-refresh on VNC is very shonky compared to
TS.

I use Unicenter Remote Control at work, and that's better than both,
but it costs money.

 

I'm pretty convinced that TS is faster than VNC over low-bandwidth
connections - I remote-control my home PC over a 256k link from the office
and it's pretty swift, especially when you turn off the XP-chrome-rendering.

I'm guessing here, but I imagine that the TS protocol is "aware" of the
windows/GDI primitives used to construct a windows GUI, and can just send
information along the lines of "draw a button here" instead of having to
ship compressed images all the time a la VNC.

 

I think you're on the right lines - in fact, AFAIK, the stuff that
gets transceived by TS is an abstraction layer away from the actual
graphic image of the screen.

 

darsy says...

transceived? My, you are making a rapid climb into management land.

 

bollocks - that's left over from my CB days 25 years ago, that is...

 

darsy says...

I think I'd rather admit to being in management...