Hello, I'm a lurker - don't say much, well, except when I do. But what John says has me interested.
I currently have my mp3s on a old but customized powermac G4 sawtooth (os x) - Yea, I know, itunes is the devil. Ogg sounds better, but nothing is more portable than mp3s & itunes tags closer to the gracenote db than anything I know of, but not close enough IMO. Also imbedded artwork is impossible and tagging is difficult with ogg and ogg doesn't work with iPods. And that's the breaker. I use an old ibook G3 clamshell as the remote (os x) running apple remote desktop and it works - but not that pretty. I want nx, a cf card & adapter or ssd and a minimal linux os. iPod touch or iPhone are poor remotes if you have a large number of files to choose from and wish to see all the songs, albums, bitrates, etc.. from a certain artist AND I cant afford one but they are smaller. Heck I can't even see the screen. Note: I used to rip in pclinuxos & grip to ogg, but EAC is better & now I am using windows. Clyde ----- Original Message ----- From: John Mort To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 1:10 PM Subject: Re: [mhvlug] Is TightVNC what I want? Might want to look at nx (NoMachine). ii is kind of vague to me, but I think it will do that. Doesn't really conform with iii though, as you have to download an rpm. Apt does have freenx as an option, but I was never able to get that to work. I use nx all the time, windows client at work and linux server at home. I even nx from old linux laptops to my desktop when I want to do stuff that needs power from my couch. On 2/24/09, Greg M. Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello. > I've got boxes at home running Kubuntu and Ubuntu 8.04.1 . > I've got a daytime use laptop running WinXP. > > I'm interested in a software product that will allow me to: > i) Access files and run applications remotely on the 'buntu boxes, without a > considerable reciprocal risk back to the laptop. > ii) Play (creative-commons licensed) MP3's from that linux box on other > computers which are in the house -- I don't need to go remotely. > iii) Use by a package management system on the linux side and is very cheap > on the WinXP side. > iv) Allows use of one password on the WinXP software, no matter how complex, > across multiple boot-sessions of the linux box. > > I've done some reading and have an idea that TightVNC might be what I want. > If it can do all these things, I'm sure I be able to get what I want out of > it. One quick experiement a month ago with some built-in thingy on Ubuntu > did NOT allow # iv). > > thanks. > > > > > -- > > Greg M. Johnson > http://pterandon.blogspot.com > _______________________________________________ > Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org > http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug > Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium > Mar 4 - TBD - 6th Birthday > Mar 7 - Web Hack-a-thon - SUNY Newpaltz > Apr 1 - TBD > -- Sent from my mobile device -- John D. Mort http://john.mort.net _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium Mar 4 - TBD - 6th Birthday Mar 7 - Web Hack-a-thon - SUNY Newpaltz Apr 1 - TBD _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium Mar 4 - TBD - 6th Birthday Mar 7 - Web Hack-a-thon - SUNY Newpaltz Apr 1 - TBD
