PDF (was ipopd)
Scott Smith
scott at roadtoad.net
Sun Jul 20 10:46:07 CDT 2003
As of X11R6.3 remote X displays got a lot faster, and when tunneled thru
ssh you get even more compression...
Scott, who used to have to run Legato Networker while on call at work
over a remote X display on a 28.8 dial-up line to a SPARCstation-2 while
getting his mail delivered via UUCP (not sure how that is relevant but
it just is, damnit!)... ...in NINETEEN NINETY-SEVEN. :P
...who built X11R6.1 from SOURCE on a Sun 4/110 (circa 1991 machine, the
first SPARC desktop) ....it took THREE DAYS!
broadband is making people impatient :D
Jonathan Hutchins wrote:
>On Saturday 19 July 2003 02:56 pm, Scott Smith wrote:
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>>$ DISPLAY=my.desktop.com:0.0; export DISPLAY
>>$ xpdf file.pdf
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>You do realise that I'm on a dial-up link in a former malt-house across from
>the pub in a TINY mid-southern English village, where horse manure is more
>common than silicon (unless you count the flint in the earth).
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