In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Dilwyn Jones
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
Hi Dilwyn,
It is a good idea, and I was thinking something similar myself.
I have just signed up to a service called GigaTribe, which has an easy
interface to allow sharing access to another person's computer. The
basic usage is free. Then there is an enhanced version.
You just give a permission to have certain Folders on your computer that
you wish to Share. Everything else is left secure to yourself.
After that you can also invite other people in to that Share, so that it
becomes like a small network.
I do not think that Windows Remote Assistance is that easy to use
directly. Hence, these services are being offered to make the idea more
accessible and to work better.
What you can do with a service like GigaTribe, is to make yourself a
Share. So that you can look at your work computer from Home, and vice
versa.
I haven't tried that, as yet though.
Now that I am on Messenger and Skype, I've started thinking about using
the Remote Assistance facility in Windoze. I wondered if it might come
in useful in my Quanta helpline capacity.
Does anyone have experience of using this? Would it be possible for me
to connect to the PC of someone running a QL emulator to help with
trying to solve QL and emulator issues?
If anyone on this list would like to give it a try to see what we can
achieve, please email me privately and I'll issue my user name - I
don't want the user name to fall foul of spamming etc as a result of
appearing and being archived on this list. Once I know what I'm doing
I'll probably "go public" then.
(Hmm, I expect Geoff or Roy will use that phrase in evidence against me
in the next QL Today :o| )
I have access to broadband now, but I don't know if it would work on dial-up.
This is just an idea I'm toying with to try to see how we can harness
these technologies to further the QLing experience (i.e. make Windoze
work for its living!) It might come to nothing in the end, but it's
worth a try I suppose.
--
Malcolm Cadman
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