The other day I spent the better part of 5 1/2 hours installing Windows XP, a few drivers (not all the ones I need), and updates, on a tower that was destined to become headless (i.e. I remote desktop into if from Linux). This evening I connected to the now headless box using a program called tsclient. tsclient is a graphical program that raps around various protocols like RDP, Remote Desktop Protocol.
If you zoom into the full-size screenshot I've included here you can see my Fedora Core 4 desktop and a modified Windows XP desktop that's in the process of installing Mozilla FireFox. If you look really close at where the firefox download is coming from you might get a little chuckle. There was an announcement some time back from this particular organization stating that they wanted to become an official Firefox mirror. I thought it was something of a publicity joke - a skin magazine serving as an official mirror for open source, but apparently the company was serious. Adult entertainment organizations of this particular company's size have the often have pretty big Internet pipelines - sex sells.
Note: I altered this image slightly, removing the email addresses in gaim to protect the identity of IM friends.
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, the Remote Desktop Protocol, c tsclient, a graphical program that makes RDP easy. I'm not sure if this
