RMIT firewall update: ITS sent back a reply basically saying “Get your lecturer to tell us what you need/why you need it” so it looks like it will be some bother trying to get real net access. Which is a shame because…
Blogsome: I don’t think I want to stay with blogsome, they are slow and keep having outages. So I was thinking I’d host something on my own machine. In addition to ssh and VNC there is a new remote screen access technology called NoMachine which is awesomely fast. I have set it up on my LAN at home and used a test account on a machine in Italy. Here is a picture of my desktop with a small window logged into the Italian test machine. It doesn’t lag too much going to europe fullscreen, and it can handle video over LAN (although there is no sound transport layer). It would be very nice to be able to access my home machine like that.
This is all quite asides from the fact that there is a truly free (no advertising) wordpress hosting being offered by RMIT which Warren and Peter are on.
