* Antonio Murphie fired off this tart reply:
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> "Linonut" <linonut@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>>* Antonio Murphie fired off this tart reply:
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>>> "Roy Schestowitz" <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>>> In other words.... it's just like "Remote Desktop" which has been
>>> bundled
>>> with every Windows computer for the past 8 years.
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>> Nope. First, X has been around in one form or another for 23 years.
>> SSH has been around for 12 years.
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> Thanks for the history lesson but what does it matter? The issue isn't
> which protocol has been around the longest... it's functionality. In the
> end the user has a graphical connection to the remote computer. Whether ssh
> has been around 12 years and RDP only 8 years isn't relevant. The issue is
> administering a remote computer.
And, of course, UNIX has had the covered for /far/ longer than Windows,
Chuck-o.
> Yeah I know how it works. At work we may need to connect remotely to any
> one of over 30,000 remote servers that we administer.
So why the "ignoramus" ploy?
> With RDP (the Microsoft implementation) users can also connect to "sound",
> "printers", "serial ports", "disk drives" and etc. So it makes the notion
> that you can optionally tunnel FTP, cp, etc. somewhat redundant since RDP
> also supports this.
Cool.
>> "ssh -L3390:mydesktop.mycompany.net:3389 sshserver.mycompany.net"
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> Yep. Been there and done that.
Sure you have. Sure you have.
>> GNU/Linux and OSS wins (get it? get it?) again!
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> Not a strong start for the New Year, eh?
I agree. Slapping you down isn't much.
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Tux rox!
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