[nzlug] Best approach for remote-admin of a Debian box

[Martin Baehr]

On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 10:09:49PM +1300, yuri wrote:
> I was under the impression that the rest of the developed world had
> broadband rather than the pathetic narrowband they sell here. Very few
> NZ households have upload speeds above 1Mbps.
> 
> Is Austria or wherever you are now as bad as that?

yes. my grandmother in austria has a small-business connection that costs
240$ a month and only gives 1mbit upload (and about 6mbit down)

and as for where i am now, what's the currently accepted punishment for
not paying attention? ;-)

> Back On Topic: I've read that NX is aimed at getting the most out of
> poor bandwidth.

indeed it is. several years ago, i had the privilege to sit in the
streets of karlsruhe during the linuxtag with a bunch of people, among
them one of the authors of NX, who explained how it works.

the essence of it is that X11 sends a lot of data accross the wire
multiple times (images for example), and NX simply does a lot of
intelligent caching, where both sides remember what is sent and upon
resending just send an id number.

greetings, martin.
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