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13 May, 2009

VNC Enterprise Edition E4.5 Released

Posted by: Rob In: Technology

Stolen faithfully from the news section on the RealVNC website.. VNC Enterprise Edition Version 4.5 Released Tuesday May 12th, 2009 RealVNC is pleased to announce the release of Version 4.5 of VNC Enterprise Edition. Customers with support and maintenance cover are eligible for a free upgrade. This release, for Windows, Unix and Mac OS X [...]

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My Macbook’s iSight camera randomly stopped working today, having worked fine ever since i’ve had it. I originally found the problem with photo booth, and went searching for a resolution. After reading numerous posts about potential fixes, I found out that you should try the following (in order of severity); 1) Double check that it [...]

15 Jan, 2009

Connecting to a Windows share from Linux

Posted by: Rob In: Technology

I needed to access some images iso images which are on our Windows file server, from my Ubuntu test box. After a little research I found out how to do this. You essentially need to mount the Windows share on your Linux box, so first things first make sure your Linux box knows the Windows [...]

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10 Nov, 2008

“Fix” Mouse acceleration on MacOS X

Posted by: Rob In: Mac|Technology

I’ve been using Macs on and off for a couple of years now but since using a MacBook on a daily basis i’ve been constantly frustrated by the poor mouse acceleration that OS X uses. On top of that, there’s no way to change the mouse acceleration! Having done a quick search I can see [...]

A potential security exploit in VNC Free Edition 4.1.2 / VNC Enterprise edition E4.4.2 has been patched¹, it  was caught early on, and to date there have been no known attacks. The bug only affected the VNC listening viewer (a component of VNC Viewer), which can be used to essentially perform a reverse connection. The [...]

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