On Thursday 22 June 2006 10:49, Shawn wrote: > hmmm.. reading a little more about cosmopod, it seems it provides it's > own common desktop for you. You could simulate this by putting a Linux
Right. You get an account on their box and, using the NXMachine Client, connect to it. It's a great idea and it works pretty well, but KMail and Kontact crash every couple of minutes on it. Given that those are the apps I need the most, it's getting painful. > distro of your choice on a usb stick, and booting from that. Then you Yeah...I need to use it simultaneously with Windows. This is for work so I can't go rebooting into Linux. I am also not allowed to install any client apps, which makes it a little harder. I can use the NXMachine Firefox extension with CosmoPOD which is kinda of not installing something...kinda. > have your own desktop everywhere you go (or doing the vnc/rdp thing > above). With a little creative configuration of mount points you could That's a good idea, but I'm not into leaving my laptop on all day... So many options.. THanks! J
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