On 13/09/2011 08:22 AM, Warp wrote:
> Orchid XP v8<voi### [at] devnull>  wrote:
>> While we're on the subject, by default you can log in to any remote
>> Windows PC that you happen to know the administrator password to. No
>> special software required. Again, try getting X11 to let you do that.
>> Good luck.
>
>    Did you know that the X windowing system was actually designed from the
> very beginning to run remotely? Running it locally was just a "free" feature
> on top of that.

Yes indeedy. (I also know that they got the usual meanings of "server" 
and "client" backwards too.)

Now I haven't tried it, but I'm told is approximately /impossible/ to 
actually configure X so that you can access it remotely. Even though 
that's its entire design goal.

>    It's Windows that was designed to be a purely local system, and to which
> remote running was patched in later.

And yet, Windows is the one where I run a command, type in the name of 
any networked PC, and I have remote access. By default. No special 
configuration required.

(OTOH, doesn't X allow more than one user to log in at once? With 
Windows, that's a special extra feature that costs $$$.)

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