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30 Jul 2008, 12:30 am

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Remote Desktop or VNC is the answer.

1. Find out if your workplace has a VPN and connect to it - VPNs are standard OS things these days.
2. If there's no remote desktop tool for ubuntu (I haven't looked seriously but http://www.rdesktop.org/ looks promising) then there will certainly be one for VNC.

We have Mac and windows clients remote desktopping here.



I use rdesktop all the time under Both Linux and Solaris it works very well. and is much nicer than VNC when connecting to a remote windows box.



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30 Jul 2008, 5:02 am

ok, in order I used them.....

Windows 98 (unstable unlike it's predecessor)
Windows ME (was on one of the computer's at work until the hard disk died and we replaced the machine)
Windows Vista (on the replacement computer at work, and also on the laptop I'm posting this from (not my lappy, if it was I'd have set up a dual-boot by now to save my sanity))


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30 Jul 2008, 9:48 am

Windoze XP.



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30 Jul 2008, 3:44 pm

WillThePerson wrote:
Windoze XP.



Why Windows XP



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31 Jul 2008, 1:09 pm

gamefreak wrote:
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Windoze XP.



Why Windows XP?

Fix'd.

Anyway, Windoze XP is awful because it's slow, buggy, boring, IE is awful in it's self, and the menus and every thing else is hard as heck to navigate. Why is it hard? Because it's slow, buggy and it can easily get viruses!
(Not denying OS X can't get viruses or get slow and buggy, it's just that OS X doesn't mess up as easily and often as XP.)



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31 Jul 2008, 1:20 pm

WillThePerson wrote:
gamefreak wrote:
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Windoze XP.



Why Windows XP?

Fix'd.

Anyway, Windoze XP is awful because it's slow, buggy, boring, IE is awful in it's self, and the menus and every thing else is hard as heck to navigate. Why is it hard? Because it's slow, buggy and it can easily get viruses!
(Not denying OS X can't get viruses or get slow and buggy, it's just that OS X doesn't mess up as easily and often as XP.)


XP was a big improvement over MS's other OS's with perhaps the exception being Windows 2000. All of the effects can be turned off, and you can also set the UI/Menu functions to be the same as Legacy MS OS's.

XP still isn't that bad if you keep your security up to date, and use a browser other than IE.


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03 Aug 2008, 12:39 am

Windows Me definitely


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03 Aug 2008, 4:25 am

Pikachu wrote:
ok, in order I used them.....

Windows 98 (unstable unlike it's predecessor)
Windows ME (was on one of the computer's at work until the hard disk died and we replaced the machine)
Windows Vista (on the replacement computer at work, and also on the laptop I'm posting this from (not my lappy, if it was I'd have set up a dual-boot by now to save my sanity))
lol, I did get a new laptop on Friday, factory installed with Vista but as it's part of an 18 month mobile broadband package I guess it won't be getting Linux (unless on a USB hard disk) for a while... darn that sucks


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03 Aug 2008, 4:47 am

Windows ME ("Mistake Edition")


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03 Aug 2008, 1:06 pm

Fogman wrote:
WillThePerson wrote:
gamefreak wrote:
WillThePerson wrote:
Windoze XP.



Why Windows XP?

Fix'd.

Anyway, Windoze XP is awful because it's slow, buggy, boring, IE is awful in it's self, and the menus and every thing else is hard as heck to navigate. Why is it hard? Because it's slow, buggy and it can easily get viruses!
(Not denying OS X can't get viruses or get slow and buggy, it's just that OS X doesn't mess up as easily and often as XP.)


XP was a big improvement over MS's other OS's with perhaps the exception being Windows 2000. All of the effects can be turned off, and you can also set the UI/Menu functions to be the same as Legacy MS OS's.

XP still isn't that bad if you keep your security up to date, and use a browser other than IE.


Internet Explorer isn't that bad if you have google toolbar blocking your Pop-Ups and have Avast Antivirus and WinPatrol Guarding your computer.[Avast you tell you when your on a virus ridden web page.]



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06 Aug 2008, 3:21 pm

Anything Linux. Who cares if it's rock solid if nothing runs on it and you have to patch/RPM it every 3 weeks.
Cry all you want about XP, but there's really only one way to hurt it and that's to load 100's of crappy apps on it. You can't even load 1/10 of the crappy apps on most linux releases, hense the lower impression of failure rates.



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06 Aug 2008, 9:30 pm

zekmoe wrote:
Anything Linux. Who cares if it's rock solid if nothing runs on it and you have to patch/RPM it every 3 weeks.
Cry all you want about XP, but there's really only one way to hurt it and that's to load 100's of crappy apps on it. You can't even load 1/10 of the crappy apps on most linux releases, hense the lower impression of failure rates.



Thats really up to the programmers making the programs. Linux is OK but isn't well known so no one bothers with it.



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06 Aug 2008, 9:52 pm

I had to erase to uninstall to upgrade from Windows ME, and it really was incompatible with the machine I was using.

But, a while after that, I accidentally broke that hard drive by dropping in on concrete. :cry: And it contained...lots of good games. I think the read write head was broken, and if the platters could be salvaged somehow, and rebuilt into a new hardrive, that would be grand.


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06 Aug 2008, 9:54 pm

zekmoe wrote:
Anything Linux. Who cares if it's rock solid if nothing runs on it and you have to patch/RPM it every 3 weeks.
Cry all you want about XP, but there's really only one way to hurt it and that's to load 100's of crappy apps on it. You can't even load 1/10 of the crappy apps on most linux releases, hense the lower impression of failure rates.


Well, I do emerge ---update world weekly, point takenAnd I disagree tht nothing runs on it, I actually see myself longing for Linux programs and features whenever I have to use a Windoze. Not being able to load a tenth of the applications? I do not believe that! Unless your package system is seriously broken (which your comment about using RPM kinda suggests, grins, ducks and runs for cover) normally most programs run out of the package. Of course there can be dependencies or packages, which block each other, but this is not something which you won't encounter elsewhere just less transparent.


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06 Aug 2008, 10:14 pm

Wonder, Has anyone actually used Win ME on a home computer for at least 2 years. Or are you guys just jumping the media bangwagon thats 8 years old already.



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07 Aug 2008, 1:30 am

Oh yeah, I used it, my husband used it...we helped other people using it. I still find it on computers people bring me to fix from time to time.


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