sound over VNC to osx?

[John Abreau]

It always seemed obvious to me when I was younger. It wasn't until the
first time I had to support Windows users that I discovered they used the
word "server" without actually
understanding what it means.


On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 1:47 PM, <david at rysdam.org> wrote:

> The length of your explanation only proves my point about it being, as I
> said, "non-obvious".
>
>
> John Abreau <jabr at gapps.blu.org> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Sep 21, 2013, at 9:21 PM, David Rysdam <david at rysdam.org> wrote:
>>
>> Wait. Maybe I got that backward, given the non-obvious client/server
>>> terminology
>>
>>
>>
>> I've always found those complaints silly and pointless. A server provides central
>> control of shared resources and manages client requests for those resources.
>>
>> An X server manages keystrokes, mouse movements, and screen real estate
>> that X clients such as firefox and xterm request. It would be silly to describe
>> firefox and xterm as "servers" that can only accept a single client connection,
>> and the desktop as a "client" that connects to an arbitrarily large number of
>> servers simultaneously.
>>
>> Especially when those firefox and xterm instances are not constantly running
>> in the background to listen
>> for requests from the desktop; it's the desktop that
>> listens for connections from xterms and firefox.
>>
>> I see complaints about the terminology as a reflection of fuzzy thinking people
>> inherit from the PC world, where users are discouraged from understanding
>> the tools that they depend on.
>>
>>


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