This is a pretty interesting screenshot I took showing what can happen with a VNC loopback. I have setup VNC tunneling over ssh to connect to my pc from my work. I also use the Cisco VPN client to connect to my work. I then use Remote Desktop to get to my work pc. Two different methods to do the same thing in different directions, right. Now I have to use the cisco method to get to my work from a virtual machine I have setup on Virtual Server, because of a driver problem with Windows XP 64-bit. So I have connected to my work here, then I connected back to my pc from work.
As you can see it started opening tons of VNC connections, since it kept looping around. Kind of like holding two mirrors together. I guess it would keep going forever, except the computer would eventually crash. I closed the first vnc windows pretty quickly, and everything was back to normal. I wouldn’t recommend doing this, but I wanted to see what would happen.
After my laptop had some major problems, I decided that it was time to build a new computer. I am always reading about what the current hardware is. I wanted to build the best computer I could, however I had to do so on a pretty tight budget. Of course after using my laptop as my only computer for the last three years, just about anything would be faster. I also needed to get a nice monitor since I didn’t have anything but my broken laptop screen. So I did a bunch of research, found what I wanted, and then waited for my tax refund to come in. If you are looking to build a new computer, on a tight budget, I think this one works pretty good.
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I came across a very useful tool for logging port use in Windows. It is called the Port Reporter. This tool runs as a service on a Windows 2000, XP, or 2003 computer. It logs all TCP and UDP port use to log files. A seperate utility called the Port Reporter Parser provides a nice GUI interface for viewing the log files and analyzing the data. Continue reading ‘Port Reporter, a Windows tool for logging port use’
