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Wireless remote data
Technologies and sample systems that gather sensor data across distances, usually via radio links. This includes general telemetry and SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition), especially for gathering data about wildlife, natural resources, and distributed energy systems.

Saturday, June 18, 2005

FreeNX and NoMachine: Fast and secure remote desktop system, like VNC or LTSP but faster and with many features:

Runs single applications remotely
Carries sound as well as screen and keyboard
Has many clients - Linux, Solaris, Windows, Mac OS/X, PXE, Mozilla
Can servers for several OS and can proxy to extend VNC and Windows Terminal Server
Tight compression for fast service over dialup
Uses SSL for end-to-end encryption
Easy to install and demo in Knoppix

(As always, John's got the scoop...)

8:32:47 AM

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