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> (NASA has their wacky ways around the issue for ISS residents, something like VNC to a ground-based browser IIRC.) Wait, VNC? Won't that use oodles more band
by rmc 10y ago
> (NASA has their wacky ways around the issue for ISS residents, something like VNC to a ground-based browser IIRC.)
Wait, VNC? Won't that use oodles more bandwidth than proxying HTTP?
- crooked-v 10y agoIt's about lag, not bandwidth.
- ttepasse 10y agoI remember astronaut Alex Gertz somewhere saying the VNC was also for security reasons. Keep in mind that most infrastructure on the ISS was installed in the middle 00s and that the Thinkpads were possible running Windows XP and IE 6 then.
- milesrout 10y agoI certainly bloody hope they're not running Microsoft software on the International Space Station.
- eggsome 10y agoThey were in 2001: https://m.theregister.co.uk/2001/04/27/nt_4_0_sp7_available/ https://m.theregister.co.uk/2001/04/27/nt_4_0_sp7_available/ This is one of my favorite NT4 tidbits :)