(10:54:32 AM) Zombie: I need to write a program that when launched pings a host, if that host is up it will launch a program, and keep pinging the host, if the host becomes unpingable it should kill the launched program and quit
(10:54:46 AM) Garth: why for
(10:55:08 AM) Zombie: i have 4 IP-KVMs that use VNC to show the desktops
(10:55:38 AM) Zombie: but when the PC attached to the KVM shuts down the VNC program just sits there with whatever last update it has
(10:55:44 AM) Zombie: VNC doesn't close
(10:55:57 AM) Garth: wait i don't understand what all that means
(10:56:03 AM) Garth: what's a vnc
(10:56:13 AM) Garth: virtual something
(10:56:17 AM) Garth: very nice chimpanzee?
(11:04:39 AM) Zombie: virtual network computing
(11:05:21 AM) Zombie: you install a VNC server on a computer, and from any other computer you run a VNC viewer and you can use the computer remotely
(11:05:28 AM) Zombie: either on a LAN or over the internet
(11:05:38 AM) Zombie: its like RDP, or ICA
(11:06:29 AM) Zombie: but I have a piece of hardware that you plug the keyboard mouse and video into from a PC and then it automatically makes a VNC server
(11:09:18 AM) Garth: ok i believe i understand
(11:09:24 AM) Garth: so the chimp is in another room