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osx2x

If you’ve more than one computer at your desk, and one of them is a Mac, you need osx2x. It lets you use all the other computers via VNC or X-Windows connections, using only the one mouse and keyboard. Shiny.
Sadly, the download link on the main site is broken. This is a [...]

Posted 18 February 2006 † dom § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (2) ° Also tagged: ,

Cygwin / X

At work, I get quite a bit of use out of cygwin. In particular, I find the X server really handy. But I had been using a small batch file to start up the X server, which annoyingly left behind a DOS box whilst the X server was running.
But yesterday, I found the [...]

Posted 17 January 2006 † dom § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

X debug trick

A useful tip I found in work today for debugging deeply embedded stuff. I was in the middle of some Perl tests talking to a PostgreSQL database. The database was created at the start of the test, and dropped at the end of the test, so there was no oppurtunity to see inside [...]

Posted 25 August 2005 † dom § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , ,