12 Oct
2011
12 Oct
'11
7:32 p.m.
On 10/12/2011 3:55 PM, Jules Richardson wrote:
Heck, you just run them (probably in a VM) on some box
"out there
somewhere" with screen-scraping code to translate UI elements to/from
a web format,
The use of the referred to gui programs via remote access is not
useful
to me. The latency even if local is too much.
I use vnc directly, the "web" version of virtualization is not very
useful as other than a cute trick.
The thing I do do remotely is run systems on esx vm servers. I also am
working on a system which will export terminal sessions to a java based
web browser. Not because it is useful, but because it can jump a lot of
network obstacles such as firewalls with its traffic conduit.
way off topic, sorry to continue diverging.