Today I came across a GNOME app for designing loudspeaker enclosures (called gspeakers, from gspeakers.sourceforge.net).  I was too lazy to walk into the next room where my Redhat box is hit the console switch and log in.  So I decided to see what it would take to get the X Window System up and running across the LAN.

After a bit of digging, I came across a decument describing how to use ssh to tunnel X.  I use a great SSH client called SecureCRT, from VanDyke.  I had already installed an evaluation copy of an X server for Windows, so I fired it up.  I checked, and sure enough SecureCRT has a "forward X" option.  I clicked that option's checkbox, restarted the session, typed "xeyes &" at the bash prompt and POW, just like that xeyes popped up on my Windows desktop.

Yay X!  Yay SecureCRT!  Yay laziness!

5:47:09 PM   

One  of the (many) things I'm not at all good at is Web Design.  That is, making Web sites look great.  You want slick server-side componentry and a bitchin' database schema to drive the content on your site, come to me.  But make it look good?  I don't do that.

So you can imagine how pleased I was to discover Open Source Web Design, a "community of designers and site owners freely sharing designs as well as design information."  Totally sweet.  And example of a site using an OSWD design is Theora.org, the "official website for Ogg Theora, a video codec and integration project maintained and supported by the Xiph.org Foundation for the benefit of all humankind."

2:50:38 PM