Sunday, August 21, 2005
Huzzah for Remote Desktop
Well, I've been out of it (in so many ways) for the last couple of days as a result of contracting some fairly fishy flu-like thing that's been terrorizing the Dellow household. Boo that.
Anyway, I am now sufficiently plugged up that snot and other fluids are oozing out of me at a sedate 3.14m3/hour and I can do sedentary tasks again!
Wireless Internet
Yay for PRIS offering wireless internet. It's a 3-mile jumpshot to the tower on Briar Ridge, but it gives us an impressive 2.5Mbps (both ways!) connection.
Remote Desktop
Yay for Remote Desktop. This is just unreal... I can work on my development machine (serverus) in Toronto with zero lag and on the OARBS server (oilrig) in Austin, Texas with total ease from any computer. If the person who has loaned me their computer needs it back, I can switch computers without losing my session. This is crazy. I can even do a little bit of graphics work - anything too fancy and the lag becomes noticeable, though.
UDP Multicast
Boo for UDP multicast. Did you know that not all routers support it? Does this mean that to write a distributed application for a LAN you have to use shotgun TCP/IP portscanning? Cos... that sucks.
Anyway, I am now sufficiently plugged up that snot and other fluids are oozing out of me at a sedate 3.14m3/hour and I can do sedentary tasks again!
Wireless Internet
Yay for PRIS offering wireless internet. It's a 3-mile jumpshot to the tower on Briar Ridge, but it gives us an impressive 2.5Mbps (both ways!) connection.
Remote Desktop
Yay for Remote Desktop. This is just unreal... I can work on my development machine (serverus) in Toronto with zero lag and on the OARBS server (oilrig) in Austin, Texas with total ease from any computer. If the person who has loaned me their computer needs it back, I can switch computers without losing my session. This is crazy. I can even do a little bit of graphics work - anything too fancy and the lag becomes noticeable, though.
UDP Multicast
Boo for UDP multicast. Did you know that not all routers support it? Does this mean that to write a distributed application for a LAN you have to use shotgun TCP/IP portscanning? Cos... that sucks.
