on 01/11/02 06:51, Eugene Lee at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 02:43:03AM -0900, Geoffrey Loeffler wrote: > : > : Mom has a year old iMac I gave her last xmas running 9.2, ! gig of > : memory and a 20 G HD, a SBC DSL connection, at 83 she is doing a heck > : of a job getting connected , surfing the curl and e-mailing. So far we > : have worked things out over the phone talking through the e-mail > : programs, saving photos, etc, the easy stuff. Once she gets going she > : is OK . But at times it is a little difficult to understand what a > : gitchamagoo or a thingamagig is on her desktop from this end, ahh > : kids.., they just do not understand . > : > : Would like to get her scanning and setting up the family info in > : Appleworks and a few other programs. > : I am in Alaska, she is in Ohio so can't just run over there to set > : things up. > : > : I have a Pismo and have 9.2 or 10.2, jag is my primary now, I also have > : a 6100 G3 8.6, all with only a dial up 28k connection, the price of > : paradise. > : > : Is there a way I could connect to her computer over my connection and > : have complete access to her computer, desktop and files so I could run > : her computer from here and she watches and learns as I tell her what is > : happening and also watch what she does. > > Timbuktu. Hands down. It's commercial-ware, but it works great. > > Other folks may suggest some kind of VNC solution. But for consumers, > most VNC software is not trivial to set up. The savings in money is not > worth the hassle. >
Timbuktu is very good. I also had good results with VNCThing. -Laurent. -- ============================================================================ Laurent Daudelin AIM/RV: LaurentDaudelin <http://nemesys.dyndns.org> Logiciels Nemesys Software mailto:laurent.daudelin@;verizon.net fandango on core n.: [Unix/C hackers, from the Iberian dance] In C, a wild pointer that runs out of bounds, causing a core dump, or corrupts the malloc(3) arena in such a way as to cause mysterious failures later on, is sometimes said to have `done a fandango on core'. On low-end personal machines without an MMU (or Windows boxes, which have an MMU but use it incompetently), this can corrupt the OS itself, causing massive lossage. Other frenetic dances such as the cha-cha or the watusi, may be substituted. See aliasing bug, precedence lossage, smash the stack, memory leak, memory smash, overrun screw, core. -- G-Books is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-Books list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:G-Books@;mail.maclaunch.com> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:G-Books-off@;mail.maclaunch.com> For digest mode, email: <mailto:G-Books-digest@;mail.maclaunch.com> Subscription questions: <mailto:listmom@;lemlists.com> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
