{"id":134,"date":"2003-01-04T16:33:52","date_gmt":"2003-01-04T16:33:52","guid":{"rendered":"tag:owlfish.com,2004:colinweblog.20030104163352"},"modified":"2003-06-30T23:20:59","modified_gmt":"2003-06-30T23:20:59","slug":"04012003","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/2003\/01\/04012003\/","title":{"rendered":"Network computing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s remarkable that I can use my computer remotely from around the world (as shown by this post) via a simple modem connection.  I&#8217;ve used <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realvnc.com\/\">vnc<\/a> before over a high speed network connection, where you can use the GUI of one machine on another, and barely notice the difference between the remote and the local version, but it&#8217;s another thing to do this over a modem connection.  The display is certainly slow to update, but the fact that it&#8217;s usable at all is a feat of software engineering.  If the whole screen, uncompressed,  was sent with every key press then a chuck of data 768K in size would need to be sent over the modem connection.  With a connection of about 3.8K per second it would take nearly two and a half minutes just to send the one snapshot of the screen.  As it is typing this the delay is roughly one second for the text that I type to appear on the screen in front of me!<\/p>\n<p>As network connections around the world improve the user experience of using a machine across ~3500 miles of ocean will get better, but given the restrictions that a modem places on us, we have already achieved an extremely good result.  (BTW If you wish to try this your self then use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tightvnc.com\/\">TightVNC<\/a> for use over a modem &#8211; the ordinary VNC requires too much bandwidth for bearable modem use).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s remarkable that I can use my computer remotely from around the world (as shown by this post) via a simple modem connection. I&#8217;ve used vnc before over a high speed network connection, where you can use the GUI of one machine on another, and barely notice the difference between the remote and the local [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}