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OpenVideoPlayer for Silverlight and Flash

Posted by Nicholas Brookins on 8 December, 2008 - one response

I’ve been working full-time with a new open source project, OpenVideoPlayer, available at http://sourceforge.com/projects/openvideoplayer OVP is a cross-platform/technology web video player, with versions in both Flash and Silverlight. The project is sponsored by Akamai, Microsoft, Adobe, and others. The aim is to provide a good starting point for websites that need built-in players. We just released version 2.0 of the Silverlight player last Friday and it’s turned out to be quite a capable solution. The OVP started life as a media framework that Akamai provided to customers to make for an easier integration with their network. It was licensed as OSS for the 2.0 release in order to expand the community and involve other media companies and consumers. More…



ToastControl starts to crawl…

Posted by Nicholas Brookins on 4 June, 2008 - 5 responses

I’ve managed to plug away at ToastControl a bit over the last couple weeks, and have some items to report.

Decisions decided

  • - I’m going to use Python. I wanted to use a dynamic language that would be flexible. The heavy lifting is done by the plug-ins like Rdesktop / mstsc and VNC anyway, written in C - the surrounding application doesn’t need tons of speed. Ruby was a contender, but Python seems much more suited to cross-platform thick-client apps like this, at least at the moment.

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ToastControl

Posted by Nicholas Brookins on 22 May, 2008 - one response

There are many ways to control a PC remotely and a plethora of programs for each option. However as an IT professional for the last gazillion years, I’ve never been truly happy with them, and often resort to the command line for VNC and Remote Desktop (rdp / mstsc / terminal services). Nothing wrong with that - but it is a pain to manage multiple hosts, and it seems I’m always scrolling through the terminal history to find the one I need.

Windows Server 2003 shipped with the Remote Desktops MMC snap-in - available in Administrative Tools or by running ‘tsmmc.msc’. It gives you a sidebar for managing multiple hosts, but that’s about where it ends. It is not particularly stable, is somewhat cumbersome, and doesn’t even allow you to reorder connections, let alone organize them in any way.

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