Tuesday September 06, 2005 Running Firefox/Mozilla under VNC
A favorite past time of bloggers at Sun is looking at the referer list to see how people get to their blogs. The vast majority of people come to my random thoughts through a direct link. There are some interesting Google searches though.
So, this hint is for the individual who googled [sic] for vnc "solaris 10" -x86 and found me on the second page. If you are having problems with Firefox crashing your VNC session under some web site, configure your VNC server to start using an 8 bits depth rather than a 24 bits one. Sure, it will not look as nice as it could, but it will run and not crash.
Things you learn doing distributed demos :)
-- Fred
[posted with ecto]
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( Sep 06 2005, 11:50:42 PM MDT ) Permalink Comments [0]MCI Neighborhood Broadband Update
It's been well over month since I transferred my home phone number to the MCI Neighborhood Broadband VoIP offering. The sound quality of the call is pretty good (having Comcast Broadband service does help). I hadn't had issues placing or receiving calls. They even allow 10 digits dialing rather than force us to do 11 digits dialing.
A positive is that MCI did transfer my phone number as promised, when promised. It happened on my birthday to boot. This certainly beats Vonage's "6 months and still no transfer" story.
As a result, I am now free of the local loop tyranny brought to Denver by Qwest. My calls are going over the internet. And I'm saving well over $70 a month.
Maybe I can use that for gas money...
-- Fred
[posted with ecto]
Technorati Tags: Broadband, MCI, VoIP, Vonage
( Sep 06 2005, 11:30:10 AM MDT ) Permalink Comments [2]