Monthly Archives: January 2010

VNC Client as Screen Saver

Posted on Sunday, January 24, 2010 by micolous

I’ve whipped up a VNC Screen Saver in .NET for Windows. It is based on this screensaver example and VncSharp. It’s a bit of a quick hack, but works. To get it, download the binaries and extract it to your … Continue reading →

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Linux iSCSI COW Images, and Windows integration.

Posted on Saturday, January 23, 2010 by micolous

More stuff for RetroLAN PCs, yay! I’ve now got all the RetroLAN PCs running out of a copy-on-write image. This means I now have a single 4GB “base” image with an installation of Windows XP, instead of having 10 of … Continue reading →

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Dynamically changing Windows’ wallpaper based on hostname

Posted on Wednesday, January 20, 2010 by micolous

I have a situation where I’ve got 14 machines booting Windows XP over iSCSI, and they’ve all got the same computer name set, and they each need to have a different wallpaper set on each machine. This runs the “RetroLAN” … Continue reading →

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