What's up with Google???

Peter Duniho wrote:
[snip]
I think "ir" should be "it"?
Correct.

[excellent info Rmt Desktop snipped]

Depending on the routers (might have to reconfig a bit) at home and the
hotel, you could set up a VPN (Virtual Private Network) between the
two, and further restrict access from undesirables by allowing only
certain IPs in (that way, only the hotel and house could talk.) A lot
of routers have hardware VPN capability and you can also do it in
software, but it gets more complicated. You could sent it up so it
works both ways, you could remote into your office PC at the hotel from
home using Rmt Desktop and work from home.

One thing to note about Remote Desktop - Windows XP Home only can be a
remote not a host. It takes WinXP Pro to be the host. So if you have
Pro on both ends, you are good to go, if not, options exist.

I use Remote Desktop very reliably and with very good response from
home to work - over a 256K (both up and down) DSL line. Almost as good
as sitting at my desk. Since the cable modem bottle neck Peter
mentioned would be at the hotel end, it shouldn't affect you much
accessing the home PC from work. The remote (hotel) machine only has to
send keyboard and mouse commands; since you are actually "working" on
the host PC, unless you transfer a file from remote to host, there is
not much overhead in the remote to host direction. What will use the
most bandwidth is home PC (host) sending the screens to the remote.

There are some performance parameters in Rmt Desktop that you can set
to customize the connection, also. I would disable remote printers and
themes (backgrounds) but leave "send sounds to the remote computer"
enabled.

Randy

"Jose" wrote in message
...
I sometimes compose in Notepad, saving to a temp directory every now and
then, if it's a long post. Then C&P into whatever I'm posting with.

Nawh... 'vi' Rules !!!...

"Randy Aldous" wrote in message
oups.com...
[...] Since the cable modem bottle neck Peter
mentioned would be at the hotel end, it shouldn't affect you much
accessing the home PC from work.

Actually, unless I've recalled incorrectly, Jay has Mediacom's cable modem
at home, and Qwest DSL at the hotel. So the 128Kbps bottleneck is
significant.

Which is not to say it would prevent Remote Desktop from working. I have
use it with a dial-up connection, and while sluggish and somewhat limited in
terms of what's practical, it still works. Going through a cable modem
upload limit will be noticeable, but should not actually preclude the use of
Remote Desktop.

All that said, assuming Jay can get to his Mediacom news account from the
hotel, IMHO the best solution is to put his news data files on a USB drive
and take that back and forth. That would provide the best performance,
without any synchronization issues. The setup is non-trivial, but then so
would Remote Desktop.

As much as I dislike web interfaces to email and news, I have to admit they
have one good thing going for them: they are trivially easy to use (or at
least can and should be).

Pete

Nawh... 'vi' Rules !!!...

Over TECO?

Jose
--
"Never trust anything that can think for itself, if you can't see where
it keeps its brain." (chapter 10 of book 3 - Harry Potter).
for Email, make the obvious change in the address.

"Jose" wrote in message
t...
Nawh... 'vi' Rules !!!...

Over TECO?

Jose
--
"Never trust anything that can think for itself, if you can't see where it
keeps its brain." (chapter 10 of book 3 - Harry Potter).
for Email, make the obvious change in the address.

TECO= Type Every Character Over

Haven't used it in 20 years...

John

"Jose" wrote in message
t...
Over TECO?

What can I say? I got spoiled by UNIX... I especially liked 'vi' over 'ed',
although I still use 'sed' for certain things that are easier with it...
Emacs was nice, but 'vi' was something that you could guarantee would be on
every UNIX machine... There might be better editors for a particular flavor
of UNIX, but why should you learn 20 different editors when 'vi' was there?
I stull use 'vi' today, whether I'm on a UNIX flavor box or on a PC...

TECO is still available if you want it though... For free, no less...

http://almy.us/teco.html

"Randy Aldous" wrote

Yep. Just got it twice in a row. I've taken to copying my text to the
clipboard before hitting the "Post" button...
Also been happening just opening up Google Groups - to the page with
all my subscribed groups (before anyone says something about using
Google, the firewall I am behind, which I have no control over, blocks
NNTP traffic, so HTTP is it. :-) )

I don't do anything special, until I get a failure, then I go to "sent items",
and copy the whole message. Then, I go back to the message I was replying to,
hit reply again, delete everything and replace (paste) with my copied message.

Not too hard. g
--
Jim in NC

On Fri, 3 Nov 2006 23:45:31 -0500, "Morgans"
wrote:


"Randy Aldous" wrote

Yep. Just got it twice in a row. I've taken to copying my text to the
clipboard before hitting the "Post" button...
Also been happening just opening up Google Groups - to the page with
all my subscribed groups (before anyone says something about using
Google, the firewall I am behind, which I have no control over, blocks
NNTP traffic, so HTTP is it. :-) )

I don't do anything special, until I get a failure, then I go to "sent items",
and copy the whole message. Then, I go back to the message I was replying to,
hit reply again, delete everything and replace (paste) with my copied message.

Not too hard. g

There actually are people left who post and read news groups ON
google? It wasn't too bad before Google took over, but it sure went
down hill in a hurry afterwards.

Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com

"Roger (K8RI)" wrote:
On Fri, 3 Nov 2006 23:45:31 -0500, "Morgans"
wrote:


"Randy Aldous" wrote

Yep. Just got it twice in a row. I've taken to copying my text to the
clipboard before hitting the "Post" button...
Also been happening just opening up Google Groups - to the page with
all my subscribed groups (before anyone says something about using
Google, the firewall I am behind, which I have no control over, blocks
NNTP traffic, so HTTP is it. :-) )

I don't do anything special, until I get a failure, then I go to "sent items",
and copy the whole message. Then, I go back to the message I was replying to,
hit reply again, delete everything and replace (paste) with my copied message.

Not too hard. g

There actually are people left who post and read news groups ON
google? It wasn't too bad before Google took over, but it sure went
down hill in a hurry afterwards.

Took over what?

Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com

--
Don Poitras

On Sat, 4 Nov 2006 12:40:58 +0000 (UTC), (Don Poitras) wrote in :

"Roger (K8RI)" wrote:
On Fri, 3 Nov 2006 23:45:31 -0500, "Morgans"
wrote:

"Randy Aldous" wrote

Yep. Just got it twice in a row. I've taken to copying my text to the
clipboard before hitting the "Post" button...
Also been happening just opening up Google Groups - to the page with
all my subscribed groups (before anyone says something about using
Google, the firewall I am behind, which I have no control over, blocks
NNTP traffic, so HTTP is it. :-) )

I don't do anything special, until I get a failure, then I go to "sent items",
and copy the whole message. Then, I go back to the message I was replying to,
hit reply again, delete everything and replace (paste) with my copied message.

Not too hard. g

There actually are people left who post and read news groups ON
google? It wasn't too bad before Google took over, but it sure went
down hill in a hurry afterwards.

Took over what?

I'm gonna speculate that he's talking about the late,
great DejaNews, whose archives were taken over by
Google in 2001.

DejaNews archived newsgroups and provided a search
engine from around 1995 to 2001.

http://groups.google.com/support/bin/static.py?page=timeline.html

I'm personally very grateful for the services Google
provides. Usenet would be a vastly poorer place without
Google. But I understand the hankering on the part of
some to go back to the glory days before Google--or before
DejaNews--when only the best and brightest could figure out
how to find and follow newsgroups. I'm from the September
that Never Ended era myself, so I've only heard about those
halcyon days from grizzled and somewhat cranky elders.

Marty
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