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A few weeks ago we reviewed the Sharp Zaurus handheld, a fine piece of engineering that Sharp finally remembered we had and wanted back. Darn.
Anyway, in that column we mentioned a piece of remote control software called Virtual Network Computing (VNC) created by the unlikely combination of AT&T Laboratories and the University of Cambridge.
VNC is a remote control system that lets you see the monitor display of a remote computer and makes your keyboard and mouse act as the remote computer's keyboard and mouse.
The authors note that VNC is different from other remote control solutions in that: "It is fully cross-platform [note that there is no Mac support yet - Gearhead]. A desktop running on a Linux machine might be displayed on a Windows PC, on a Solaris machine, or on any number of other architectures.There is a Java viewer so that any desktop can be viewed with any Java-capable browser. There is a Windows server, allowing you to view the desktop of a remote Windows machine on any of these platforms using exactly the...