Jon wrote: > 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..
Just to add to your options and give you something else to think about. I have UltraVNC viewer client & Microsoft's RDP both running off of a USB Key. I like the UltraVNC viewer because it allows you to log in using windows authetication if you need it as well as allowing file transfers and chat sessions. I use VNC daily to check computer at home...in fact using it now to write this e-mail. You can also get PuTTY running off of a USB key as well and if you throw in portable firefox, with the FileZilla extension and few other things...well you have a party in your pants pocket. ;-) I am close to having a protable office on a usb ket that I can plub into any windows machine and use no problem. Onc I get that all setup, the next step is to try and get something like qemu on their and run and embedded Linux session as well....but the lag time would kill me... Cameron _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
