RE: Off-Topic: Looking for Hardware Recommendations

2008-01-08 Thread Bryan O'Neal
, 2008 7:59 PM To: Main PLUG discussion list Subject: Re: Off-Topic: Looking for Hardware Recommendations Thanks for the thoughts. Remote access to the Windows machine works well with rdesktop - I use it every day. It does not play games well, however. Any thoughts on the sharing keyboard/mouse

Re: Off-Topic: Looking for Hardware Recommendations

2008-01-05 Thread Technomage-hawke
On Friday 04 January 2008 15:36, Mark Phillips wrote: > > Also, any suggestions on a way to run both the Windows game machine and > Linux homework machine off one mouse/keyboard/monitor in daughter #1's > room would be greatly appreciated! > > Thanks for any suggestions you may have! > > Mark are w

Re: Off-Topic: Looking for Hardware Recommendations

2008-01-04 Thread Alex LeDonne
On Jan 4, 2008 3:36 PM, Mark Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Also, any suggestions on a way to run both the Windows game machine and > Linux homework machine off one mouse/keyboard/monitor in daughter #1's > room would be greatly appreciated! > I've been using one of these http://www.newegg.

Re: Off-Topic: Looking for Hardware Recommendations

2008-01-04 Thread Craig White
I do it all the time, I have a 4 port KVM and have my Linux desktop, my Windows desktop, my Macintosh desktop and my Linux server all using the same keyboard/monitor/mouse Craig On Fri, 2008-01-04 at 19:59 -0700, Mark Phillips wrote: > Thanks for the thoughts. Remote access to the Windows machine

RE: Off-Topic: Looking for Hardware Recommendations

2008-01-04 Thread Mark Phillips
but you get very similar performance. > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matt > Graham > Sent: Friday, January 04, 2008 4:31 PM > To: Main PLUG discussion list > Subject: Re: Off-Topic: Looking for Hardware Recomm

Re: Off-Topic: Looking for Hardware Recommendations

2008-01-04 Thread Mark Phillips
Thanks for the thoughts. Remote access to the Windows machine works well with rdesktop - I use it every day. It does not play games well, however. Any thoughts on the sharing keyboard/mouse/monitor between the two machines? Thanks! Mark On Fri, 2008-01-04 at 16:31 -0700, Matt Graham wrote: > Af

RE: Off-Topic: Looking for Hardware Recommendations

2008-01-04 Thread Bryan O'Neal
cheaper to sell, but you get very similar performance. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matt Graham Sent: Friday, January 04, 2008 4:31 PM To: Main PLUG discussion list Subject: Re: Off-Topic: Looking for Hardware Recommendations After a long

Re: Off-Topic: Looking for Hardware Recommendations

2008-01-04 Thread Matt Graham
After a long battle with technology, gm5729 wrote: > Honestly the best choice is to get a gaming platform/console and use > it cheaper and designed for games I see you missed the OP's saying "one of my daughters likes to play WoW". You can't play WoW on a WiiXboxPS2 according to Blizzard, so

Re: Off-Topic: Looking for Hardware Recommendations

2008-01-04 Thread Mark Phillips
What is a gaming console? I didn't mean Wii games or Xbox games, I mean PC games that run on Windows. Mark On Fri, 2008-01-04 at 15:56 -0700, gm5729 wrote: > Honestly the best choice is to get a gaming platform/console and use > it cheaper and designed for games > --

Off-Topic: Looking for Hardware Recommendations

2008-01-04 Thread gm5729
Honestly the best choice is to get a gaming platform/console and use it cheaper and designed for games --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.P

Off-Topic: Looking for Hardware Recommendations

2008-01-04 Thread Mark Phillips
My daughters use Linux for all their school work, and they dual boot into Windows when they wants to play their games. I have tried to get their games to work with Wine, but no such luck. One daughter uses the same computer from a remote X desktop for her school work. However, daughter #1 has becom