Month: February 2006

Linux

Evolution: Using a SOCKS proxy

Started playing a bit with Evolution today on my Ubuntu Linux system. The first stumbling block for me was that I wanted to access my work email through a SOCKS proxy and I didn't see any settings for that in the app. I tried...

General

San Jose Mercury News – Home sales hit 5-year low but Bay Area median prices rise in January

Interesting - this is consistent with our observation that properties seem to be staying on the market much longer. From San Jose Mercury News - Home sales hit 5-year low but Bay Area median prices rise in January: Bay Area home...

Linux

Problems with FreeNX to VNC

I am able to use the NoMachine Mac OS X nxclient to connect to FreeNX on my Linux box and it's fantastic! I can't however get FreeNX to reliably proxy to a TightVNC server on our Windows XP laptop. It pretty much always times...

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TightVNC on Ubuntu

In case like me, you were looking to install the TightVNC viewer and/or server on Ubuntu and your first guess didn't work: $ sudo apt-get install tightvnc Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done E: Couldn't...

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FreeNX on Ubuntu Breezy Badger

is a snap. Just check out the FreeNX page on the Ubuntu Wiki What I did... (more…)...

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FreeNX on FreeBSD

FreeNX is the new VNC. VNC is so...20th century. The performance of FreeNX blows VNC (including TightVNC and UltraVNC) out of the water. FreeNX is the server component. You actually can use the clients from the commercial NX...

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FTD sucks

I ordered flowers for my wife from FTD for Valentine's Day. It's two days later and we haven't received them or got as much as a call about it. I used a form on their web site to inquire about delivery and it said that they'll...