[octavist13]

For those of you that use VNC, what viewer do you use? I've been using Chicken of the VNC, but I find it rather annoying how it saves your favorites. There's gotta be some better stuff out there.

[atomicbartbeans]

I like VNCviewer. Simple and functional.

[madmaxmedia]

What do you find annoying about Chicken? I don't use VNC much overall, but have COVNC installed on my PowerBook.

[chucker]

Apple Remote Desktop?

[Brad]

Originally Posted by madmaxmedia What do you find annoying about Chicken?

Hmm... that is a tough one!!!

Originally Posted by octavist13 I find it rather annoying how it saves your favorites.

Three cheers for reading comprehension!!!

FWIW, I use CotVNC.

[octavist13]

Originally Posted by madmaxmedia What do you find annoying about Chicken? I don't use VNC much overall, but have COVNC installed on my PowerBook.

I would just like to be able to rearrange my favorites. I'd put the most frequently used ones at the top and whatnot. I mainly just use it at work so I don't have to get up from my desk all the time to check to see if our proofing device has any errors that need to be reckoned with. Occasionaly I dial into my computer at home, but it's so damn slow that it's barely worth it.

[octavist13]

Originally Posted by chucker Apple Remote Desktop?

Um, I'm looking for freeware so that won't cut it.

[octavist13]

Originally Posted by atomicbartbeans I like VNCviewer. Simple and functional.

I tried it out. It is simple and very functional, but it doesn't allow you to save any favorites at all so I wasn't that impressed.

[StevesMom]

Chicken. It's the best out there IMHO, flawed as it is.

SM.

[octavist13]

Originally Posted by Brad Three cheers for reading comprehension!!! .

Umm, so what's that supposed to mean?

[Phoenix]

I don't think that Brad's comment was directed at you octavist13. I think he was referring to madmaxmedia.

[ThunderPoit]

anyone think there is a snowball's chance in hell of this ever making it to the mac?
i use it at work all the time and even over dialup, it is more responsive than many vnc programs ive used:
http://www.famatech.com/products/radmin/

[chucker]

Originally Posted by ThunderPoit anyone think there is a snowball's chance in hell of this ever making it to the mac? i use it at work all the time and even over dialup, it is more responsive than many vnc programs ive used: http://www.famatech.com/products/radmin/

As far as I know, radmin draws its speed from using native, direct calls to GDI, Windows' graphics layer. That means that, by design, it's almost as fast -- bar the network latency -- as using the local machine. It also means, however, that it's not portable at all.

Sure, something similar could be done for Quartz; in fact, I hear NeXTstep did have something like radmin, using native, direct DisplayPostScript calls. Apple apparently does feel, however, that Remote Desktop is good enough.

Doesn't stop third parties from working on this, however.

But what it boils down to is:
1) if you want cross-platform, you have to settle for the greatest common denominator, which VNC represents rather well (hence Apple's support for that in recent Remote Desktop versions).
2) if you want speed, you need to make sacrifices. You'll get the highest speed and benefit the most from OS optimizations by, well, using those exact optimizations. But that means cross-platform is out of question.