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How does the NX flag work?

Could you please explain what the NX flag is and how it works (please be technical)? ...

How to allocate an executable page in a Linux kernel module?

I'm writing a Linux kernel module, and I'd like to allocate an executable page. Plain kmalloc returns a pointer within a non-executable page, and I get a kernel panic when executing code there. It has to work on Ubuntu Karmic x86, 2.6.31-20-generic-pae. ...

X11 screencasting multicasting solution

I need to multicast an x11 application window to multiple (sai 100) clients in a lossy (wireless) environment. Right now, I was able to do it through screen grabbing (vlc) and h264 compression, but there should be a cleaner solution, something along the lines of a multicast NX session. Is there anything which could work with some glue,...

Make alt key work when using NX client on OSX to Ubuntu 10.04 host?

I am using NX Client on Mac OS X 10.6 to access my Ubuntu 10.04 machine. I would like to use the Option/Alt key to Alt-Tab in the window manager and as the Meta key in Emacs. Some searching on the internet suggests that I set my OSX ~/.Xmodmap file to: keycode 66 = Alt_L clear Mod1 add Mod1 = Alt_L Alt_R Or: clear Mod1 clear Mod2 k...