Blog of Alexander Mamchenkov

Since I am using VNC very often I was looking for some good VNC viewer. Recently I realized that Krdc (comes with KDE) is the best choice (at least for me) since it supports both VNC and RDP, have good integration into KDE and supports image scaling in VNC which is a very useful feature

3ddesktop – yet another fancy feature for the desktop effects collection. There are many modes for switching desktops including flipping, sliding, linear, carousel and others. Works pretty fast (depends on the settings) even on not very powerful video cards (I have tried it on Intel 915 built-in chipset) and is easy to set it up.

The only thing I didn\’t manage to change is keyboard shortcuts inside switching mode.

Today I tried to install FC4 over VNC and it seems to be working very good. I found this solution very nice when there is a lack of monitors/keyboards/mice at the desk with many PCs. On the LAN level the speed of VNC is very good so having everything displayed on one monitor (splitted into many virtual desktops) is much better solution than to have all I/O equipment for every machine.

I found nice software to read logs: multitail – it is a ncurses based log reader which supports multiple windows for multiple logs, merging multiple logs to single window, regex based colors and many other features. Very nice way to watch your logs in realtime.

I know that using UPSes in servers environment is a MUST and it prevents many problems, but what about workstations and other network equipment [for example switches]?

If we ignore the idea that UPSes can [and most of the time do] save some hardware during power failures and assume that we use UPSes just to keep servers running 24/7 no matter what is going on, that why do we need it if lets say switches are not backed up with UPSes? On the other hand, why do we need those switches if all the workstations are not on UPSes as well?

And the main questions are: \”Is it worthy to move all equipment on UPSes?\” and \”What kind of setup is better?\”