*RANT* Ridiculous EDA software "user license agreements"?

license_rant_master <none@nowhere.net> writes:

> I am an ASIC engineer who frequently 'takes work home' with me.
> Recently, I began using ssh to remotely login to our company's
> servers to run some Verilog/VHDL simulations.  Launching
> sims (from the UNIX command line) is fairly easy and painless,
> but any kind of interactive (GUI) operations are pitifully
> slow over an WAN/internet connection.  In the past, I
> haven't needed to do much more than check on running jobs,
> restart them, then logout.  Now, I find the need to do some
> interactive debugging work (waveform viewing, code editing,
> etc.)

Since you are using UNIX-based hosts, you might want to consider
looking into NX (http://www.nomachine.com). I have used it for the
exact same purpose for years (it wasn't actually called NX back
then).

For quite some time I had to use a connection going from the local
office in Boston,MA to Milpitas,CA and back to Boston. No issues here.

Hope that helps,
Marcus