Author: Alexander Mamchenkov

This time I am a bit lost with VNC :(

The idea is that I need to make a kind of remote access to the workstations (Win XP) in the NAT from outside and one way to do it (as I thought) was to set up a VirtualHost on Apache (of course with SSL and Auth and all the rest) and then use mod_proxy and VNC web client to do the job.

Everything would be fine if VNC Java applet would give me to do this, but it doesn\’t work pretty good through proxy :( Anyway, after playing around a VNC Web client I realized that it is not too comfortable so I need to find some other (prettier) solution to this problem.

Checked Kopete and Licq today. Kopete looks nice and supports many protocols, but have some problems with encodings (when using russian) while Licq is much lighter and faster, but supports only ICQ protocol.

Since I am using only ICQ (I need MSN only for one contact and am going to push that guy to switch to ICQ) I decided to keep Licq for default.

For one more time I have proved to myself that Firefox is the best :) This time I decided to give a try to Konqueror (as from KDE 3.4.0) in hopes that maybe, due to the fact that I am running KDE, it will work faster and better than Firefox – I was wrong!

Not only that Konqueror is much slower than Firefox (I didn\’t benchmark this since I can see it as is) on startup and while rendering pages, it also do not comply 100% with a style. The issue with styles can be seen with forms: Konqueror do not obey CSS, instead it uses current KDE style of widgets to draw forms what causes (in some places) the whole site to be displayed not very good :(

Anyway – I gave up with Konqueror and came back to Firefox until next release of KDE when I am planning to try Konqueror one more time :)