13.02.2020
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I recently had a remote pair programming session with a colleague, and immediately noticed the readability of his code. I’m not talking about programming style etc, but of the actual font he was using. It was so crisp and clear and comfortable on the eyes. I immediately thought that I’d need to get me some of that. The font in question is called, and is specifically designed for code. There are sans, serif and mono styles of the font. There is also a nice preview functionality on the page, where you can really tweak the font to your liking.

You can even select your preferred style of ‘a’, ‘g’, and a couple of other letters. Of course you can also just download the complete font package. Alternate letterforms and example of font. Installation of the font is really easy on OS X. Just drag-and-drop the unzipped font package onto the Font Book application, and the font gets added to your system.

Installation of font Try it out, it even makes spaghetti slightly easier on the eyes.

I fear I know the answer to this already, but I would like to be able to connect to my Mac Mini in a 'remote desktop' fashion. I would like to connect to my Mac as if I were sat at my desk, but I want to be able to access it from my Ubuntu machine. I'm using Snow Leopard and Ubuntu Server 8.04. EDIT So I tried the screen sharing option, the problem I have with this is that the screen resolution I see is that of my 22' at home, so on my little netbook the 1920 x 1200 resolution requires lots of scrolling this way, and scrolling that way etc etc.

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With my experience of Windows systems, the remote desktop protocol spawns a new session specifically for remote access, solving the screen size problem and means the machine doesn't have to be logged in to be connected to. Is there an option of this nature that I could explore, instead of sharing the screen? I did try LogMeIn, unfortunately this had the same effect as the screen sharing. I tried lots of things but that actually worked for me: There are two tricks to using VNC from a non Mac to connect to a Mac running OS X Lion. Turn on the VNC server by enabling System Preferences - Sharing - Screen Sharing. Even though it provides little security, a VNC password must be set so that OS X will present an authentication scheme that makes sense to a standard VNC client. Enable “VNC viewers may control screen with password“ After connecting, you will see a grey linen-backgrounded desktop with nothing in it.

Remote Pair Programming Nx 4 Preview For Mac Free

Remote Pair Programming Nx 4 Preview For Mac

Type your user name and password. After logging in, your desktop contents will display! Personally I think the best solution is not bitmap-based. NoMachine (and other groups like FreeNX) offer something called NX. It is an X windows interface that provides for bitmap caching and compresses the line drawing commands that are sent to the graphical device. NX can be very fast over low speed connections because it does not send differences between screens as does the VNC protocol. Over high speed connections the quality and performance is excellent.

Remote Pair Programming Nx 4 Preview For Mac

Remote Pair Programming Nx 4 Preview For Mac

It's at least as good, or better, than Remote Desktop on Windows. NoMachine offers a free version of their server and client.

Remote Pair Programming Nx 4 Preview For Mac 2017

They support Windows, Linux, Apple Mac and are now working on Android and iOS. You can download their free products or try their commercial products from this page: The FreeNX group also provides an NX server and clients but I'm not aware of any support for Apple Mac systems.

Of course it's a good idea to keep up with their progress which you can do here.