Category Archives: Coding

VNC Splitter

Posted on Friday, February 5, 2010 by micolous

More VNC clients! This time, this one will split up a single VNC server input into smaller pieces to form a 3×3 grid of smaller VNC server images. It’ll automatically resize it to 640×480. That stuff is configurable in the … Continue reading →

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A pipe-based VNC viewer

Posted on Tuesday, February 2, 2010 by micolous

I’ve written a simple pipe-based VNC viewer, that is, it outputs a 32 bits-per-pixel RAW ARGB image stream to `stdout` every tenth of a second. The effect is you can chain this with ffmpeg to create a multicast UDP video … Continue reading →

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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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