On Wed, 5 Sep 2012 20:19:03 -0500
Derek Martin wrote:
> Even if this isn't your situation, the fact is your session contains a
> lot of state, and having to recover that state even every morning is
> counterproductive.
Everything I do more than twice by hand in short order gets automated
because
On Wed, 5 Sep 2012 20:33:09 -0400
John Abreau wrote:
> I don't spend the entire day in front of the computer. Most days I
> need to do dishes or laundry, or leave the house on some errand. I
> rarely have more than a couple hours in the evening to work on
> long-term projects on the computer.
A
On Wed, Sep 05, 2012 at 03:49:57PM -0400, John Abreau wrote:
> When you've got maybe 2 productive hours available in a given day,
> it makes so much sense to spend 60-90 minutes of that time restoring
> your previous context before continuing your work. It's especially helpful
> to do this between
I don't spend the entire day in front of the computer. Most days I need
to do dishes or laundry, or leave the house on some errand. I rarely have
more than a couple hours in the evening to work on long-term projects
on the computer.
And during the rest of the day, I often need to look things up, w
A similar discussion was had on the nlug.org mailing list reciently.
One person had a good experience by installing xrdp on the Linux
machine, then using tightvnc to get in, but to get all that windows
wants to support, I was wondering if using remotedesktop (rdesktop in
Ubuntu 10.04) or the windo
On Wed, 5 Sep 2012 18:09:49 -0400
Chuck Anderson wrote:
> Spice looks like a promising technology for audio & video support:
>
> http://spice-space.org/home.html
Sure, but Spice isn't a remote desktop technology. It's more like RHEV
where the "desktop" is a KVM instance with drivers that offloa
On Wed, 5 Sep 2012 16:50:40 -0400
Bill Bogstad wrote:
> the end of the work day. I realize that dedicated workstations are
> now the norm, but there was a time when it was considered cutting
> edge to allow people to login using whatever equipment happened to be
> in front of them.
True enough
On Wed, Sep 05, 2012 at 01:04:01PM -0400, Rich Pieri wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Sep 2012 15:29:11 +
> "Edward Ned Harvey (blu)" wrote:
>
> > VNC might not do well at supporting audio or video, but I'm quite
> > sure NX does. And Exceed onDemand. And GoGlobal. (All commercial
> > products.) And Ci
On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 3:52 PM, Rich Pieri wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Sep 2012 15:36:00 -0400
> Bill Bogstad wrote:
>
> > I think a similar argument could be made about screen locking.
> > Users should just be "educated" to log out every time they
> > go to the bathroom.
>
> I suggest that there is a ps
On Wed, 5 Sep 2012 15:49:57 -0400
John Abreau wrote:
> helpful to do this between each and every bathroom break.
You got bigger problems than taking time for bathroom breaks if you
have only 2 productive hours a day and half of that time is spent
setting up your workspace.
--
Rich P.
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On Wed, 5 Sep 2012 15:36:00 -0400
Bill Bogstad wrote:
> I think a similar argument could be made about screen locking.
> Users should just be "educated" to log out every time they
> go to the bathroom.
I suggest that there is a psychological difference between going to the
bathroom and leaving w
When you've got maybe 2 productive hours available in a given day,
it makes so much sense to spend 60-90 minutes of that time restoring
your previous context before continuing your work. It's especially helpful
to do this between each and every bathroom break.
On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 3:36 PM, Bill
On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 1:04 PM, Rich Pieri wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Sep 2012 15:29:11 +
> "Edward Ned Harvey (blu)" wrote:
> .
>
> Personally? I think this is all barking up the wrong tree. Walking away
> from a workstation and "forgetting" to log out is a bad practice. Don't
> cater to it.
>
On Wed, 5 Sep 2012 15:29:11 +
"Edward Ned Harvey (blu)" wrote:
> VNC might not do well at supporting audio or video, but I'm quite
> sure NX does. And Exceed onDemand. And GoGlobal. (All commercial
> products.) And Citrix ... whatever their product is called.
NX isn't free. FreeNX has be
> From: Bill Bogstad [mailto:bogs...@pobox.com]
> Sent: Monday, September 03, 2012 8:27 PM
>
> On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 2:14 PM, Edward Ned Harvey (blu)
> wrote:
> > From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss-
> > bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of Bill Bogstad
>
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