VNC Idea

[Thong Nguyen]

That's a point....there's a windows app called hdled i think that flashes
whenever the harddisk is being used.
It sits in the tray and would work seemlessly with VNC.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-vnc-list "at" uk.research.att.com
> [mailto:owner-vnc-list "at" uk.research.att.com]On Behalf Of Brent Perez
> Sent: Thursday, 2 September 1999 7:44 a.m.
> To: 'vnc-list "at" uk.research.att.com'
> Subject: RE: VNC Idea
>
>
> Problem: In Windows the Task Manager is a REAL resource hog, so
> running the
> monitor would slow things down even more, making the feature useless. It
> would have to be almost transparent to be useful and since I am not a
> programmer I don't know if that is possible.
> Brent
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-vnc-list "at" uk.research.att.com
> [mailto:owner-vnc-list "at" uk.research.att.com]On Behalf Of Charles Hines
> Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 1999 2:24 PM
> To: vnc-list "at" uk.research.att.com
> Subject: RE: VNC Idea
>
>
>
> > I'm not sure if anyone's thought of this yet, but it sure would
> be nice to
> > know when the HDD is chugging on the Pc that you're controlling.  Maybe
> > little winky lighs at the bottom of the viewer or on the desktop of the
> > clients?
> >
> > Just a though.
>
> Why not just run one of the dozens of available system resource monitors
> for whatever platform your server is running on (I'm assuming windoze, but
> they are generally available for any UNIX platform and I'm assuming Macs
> too).
>
> That way VNC can keep on doing what it was meant to do and display that
> info you're looking for while doing it while remaining relatively simple
> and platform independent...
>
> Chuck
>
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