start sea server even remotely over ssh

this works on neutron instruments (account equal host)
and on linse-c

utils.cpp

@@ -460,3 +460,14 @@ void MyTextEdit::appendText(QString text) {
     }
   }
 }
+
+char *strtoupper(const char *str) {
+  static char buf[128];
+  int i;
+  for (i = 0; i < 127; i++) {
+    if (str[i] == 0) break;
+    buf[i] = toupper(str[i]);
+  }
+  buf[i] = 0;
+  return buf;
+}