[nlug] Screwed Up Install

2011-01-31 Thread Paul Boniol
This is more of a gripe, no help really needed. I thought I was doing good, but ended up really screwing things up. I was trying to upgrade a openSUSE box and have a backup of the original just in case things went terribly wrong. I put in another hard drive of the same size, booted from DVD, res

Re: [nlug] RDP the wrong direction question :)

2011-01-31 Thread Jim Peterson
> > For Windows machines in the labs at the college, we have Deep Freeze > from Faronics. The user can save files on the network, or in an > unprotected pseudo-partition. Other than that, every reboot is a > clean machine. > > Otherwise, I strongly suggest Adblock Plus with Firefox. > Mother-

Re: [nlug] Re: Looking for the right program

2011-01-31 Thread Will Drewry
A few comments that I hope will be useful! On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 7:22 AM, Steven S. Critchfield wrote: > > - Original Message - > > Yes I realize the more people that are listening or watching. > > This is why I was looking for a VPN program. > > Something you need to consider, VoIP use

Re: [nlug] Re: Looking for the right program

2011-01-31 Thread Chris McQuistion
Along those lines, you could even try something like Ventrilo. It is very simple to set up. The server component will run on Mac, Windows, Linux, Solaris and FreeBSD. The client software is Mac and Windows only. Chris On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 12:30 PM, Andrew Farnsworth wrote: > Steven, >

Re: [nlug] Re: Looking for the right program

2011-01-31 Thread Andrew Farnsworth
Steven, I didn't think you knew anything about VOIP... Seriously though, listen to Steven, he is talking truth. On thing not mentioned though is any kind of system used to chat while gaming. Many games have this built in now but you can also get things for free like "Game Voice" from Microso

Re: [nlug] RDP the wrong direction question :)

2011-01-31 Thread Don Delp
On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 11:06 AM, Will Drewry wrote: > And while we're piling on options, :) you can also run CoLinux on their > existing windows systems and see if you can get them browsing with firefox > or chrome under it.  There is also a NX client for windows if you run the NX > server on the

Re: [nlug] Re: Looking for the right program

2011-01-31 Thread Steven S. Critchfield
- Original Message - > Yes I realize the more people that are listening or watching. > This is why I was looking for a VPN program. Something you need to consider, VoIP uses UDP because it is better to have a drop out during live voice calls than to introduce further latency waiting for a