Archive for October, 2005

on x11 Framebuffering

Friday, October 28th, 2005

I've been meaning to work out how to share one of my X11 desktops for a long time, but without going through the hassle of framebuffers, etc. I decided to use x11vnc, but could not get it to stay permanent. This is a brain dump so I can work out htf ...

Quote for the day

Friday, October 28th, 2005

One of the contract sites is in the process of getting a lift installed. They don't have one, and seeing as they have a number of disabled and elderly staff and clients, they are getting one installed. I walked past the room they are cutting the wall out of to ...

Moving on

Friday, October 28th, 2005

Well, now all the servers are in the colo, we have a surplus of relatively grunty machines spare, so I figured it's time to upgrade all the machines. My current machine is a Duron 1.2Ghz box a client traded in for a 256Mhb Nvidia FX5200 AGP card (i'll let ...