Crusty Blaa

I've just imported Vino into CVS. Its "Remote Desktop" functionality
for GNOME using VNC's RFB
protocol which I wrote while at Sun.

Currently, the most notable bits over other VNC servers are:

• Support for encrypting the RFB protocol stream using SSL
• A dialog which prompts the user before allowing a remote user
  to connect
• Exports the local display, so you don't have to start up a
  seperate VNC display
• Properly integrated into GNOME

More details

here.

The

TODO list includes:

• Use the new
  DAMAGE extension instead of polling the screen
• Write a GTK+ based client - the current client is a Java applet
  but you can use any other vncviewer without encryption
• Service discovery using DNS-SD and mDNS
• Better authentication schemes

A rather "interesting" day doing bugzilla work, disting and
pushing 2.5.4 tarballs and jhbuilding GNOME HEAD in parallel
over a 56k dialup line. I think I'll be counting down the
minutes until the Eircom
fools manage to flick the magic DSL switch ...

How on earth did I put up with this for an entire year in
New Zealand?

So, today is my last day working for Sun which feels very, very
strange. Its been a great few years and I'm genuinely going to
miss this place and the great people here. I still can't believe
that my dream of working full time on free software has come
true. Sun made that possible - for that I'll be ever grateful.

On the upside, though, it marks the start of a new and exciting
adventure - working for Red Hat. Its a little daunting, actually.
Having seen the awesome work the guys do, I've no idea if I'll
be able to live up to their standards. I can't wait to get
started though :-)

I hope people don't read into this something that isn't there -
even though I'm leaving, I still think Sun is a great place to
work and that its a company with a seriously bright future.
My moving to Red Hat has nothing to do with which is a "better"
company, and everything to do with me wanting to take up the
opportunity of a new challenge.

I can't get Robert Frost's
The Road
Not Taken out of my head right now. It pretty well sums
up how I'm feeling ... but that could just be the hangover :-)

I should really thank Glynn for
letting my plagiarise his blog setup. I've no patience for figuring out
stuff like that :-)

So, I've decided to join in the blogging action with the
cool kids.

Next step: find something interesting to say. Hmm.