On Friday 08 December 2006 10:17, Michael Christie wrote: > Just letting you know, that I indeed took Peter and David's advice and > put Putty on a USB stick, followed the instructions at > http://ozdoc.mine.nu/index.php/Remote_Connections > plugged it into another computer, used remote desktop once connected to > the esmith box and low and behold my surgery's desktop appeared together > with printers. > This will be very useful for me on my nursing home visits.
One day you might dicover how lovely and useful a true networking operating system is - the X protocol allows me to run *any* software from *any* computer on *any* other computer seamlessly, just as if it were running locally, with minimal resource use. I don't even need to install anything, all part of the default operatiing system installation. And in the same fashion, I can access literally any device remotely too - be it scanners, USB devices or whatever - again without needing to install special software, and again it will run with *any* software. All with as much or as little security as you like, and again without need for any extra software to be purchased and installed. And once you learnt to appreciate such features, there is no way back to the old single desktop ways. And then they call you a Linux zealot because they simply don't understand. Horst _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
