I tried using RA for a work colleague's home machine (XP Pro) once, and it failed horribly. Mainly because the IP address that the RA invitation sent me was a private one (behind a router). Unfortunately, there was no-one there at the time able to reconfigure the router etc, and to be honest, I wouldn't even want that sort of hole present in that person's network.
I'm currently having similar thoughts about what to do for my parents, and in this case RA may not work as I'm using Linux on my machine - I can't remember if RA uses the same protocol as RDC (and whether it's supported by tsclient). Not to mention that one of the machines is still Win2k (it does what it's supposed to, and is firewalled).
I'm still tempted by VNC/RDC with SSH forwarding to my machine. Not that I've sorted it out yet.
Of course, if they were just looking at the logs for www.bbc.co.uk, then maybe it's true. I rarely visit that page, as I normally jump straight to news.bbc.co.uk. This would also mean that anyone arriving from (say) Slashdot would never visit that page, as there would be a direct link to the article.
However that would worry me if that was all they were looking at.
I know of myself & one other at work who browse the BBC site (from home) using Linux, and I've spotted a couple more people commenting on here. So there must only be another 590-odd Linux users in the UK. I feel honoured to be part of such a select group...
As far as I'm aware from looking briefly at the Debian website, I think so.
This time, however, you have a choice of 3 "first" CDs - the default one that includes GNOME, one that includes KDE, and one that includes XFCE. This should, in theory, mean that you get only the desktop stuff that you need. They are listed on the main iso-cd download page, which for i386 is http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/4.0_r0/i386/is o-cd/
However I will say this - I have not installed a Debian desktop from CD only for a couple of years, and am unlikely to do so in the near future. So I could be wrong...
When I was at university in the UK a few years ago, someone came round to the Student Union & handed out these type of bulb, maximum of two per student. Since I was living in a shared house with 4 other students at the time, we could easily manage to use them in every light fitting that would take them.
Of course, at least two of the people in the house claimed that they couldn't use them in their room, as they couldn't cope with fluorescent lights, or they flickered, or they took too long to warm up...
We mainly used them in those rooms that had the lights on for the longest periods in the end.
Define people not upgrading.
We played with this at work about a day ago... my PC (WinXP, SP2, patched to date) was fine with IE, although Firefox got very confused. Opera was quite happy, and ignored the problem. The guy who bought this up was having issues. He was running Win2K, SP4, patched to date. Spot the difference.
He's quite happy running Win2K (and I'd rather do that, but don't have the option). He's up to date, as far as he can be without reinstalling his PC, and he appears to be at risk. There should not be an implied "you should upgrade to the latest OS because you are running an out-of-date one" with this. It's a problem with the browser, not a gaping hole in the OS.
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A large chunk of the UK (where a lot of the population is) is a bit flatter and drier than Norway... Not to mention that
I tried using RA for a work colleague's home machine (XP Pro) once, and it failed horribly. Mainly because the IP address that the RA invitation sent me was a private one (behind a router). Unfortunately, there was no-one there at the time able to reconfigure the router etc, and to be honest, I wouldn't even want that sort of hole present in that person's network. I'm currently having similar thoughts about what to do for my parents, and in this case RA may not work as I'm using Linux on my machine - I can't remember if RA uses the same protocol as RDC (and whether it's supported by tsclient). Not to mention that one of the machines is still Win2k (it does what it's supposed to, and is firewalled). I'm still tempted by VNC/RDC with SSH forwarding to my machine. Not that I've sorted it out yet.
Of course, if they were just looking at the logs for www.bbc.co.uk, then maybe it's true. I rarely visit that page, as I normally jump straight to news.bbc.co.uk. This would also mean that anyone arriving from (say) Slashdot would never visit that page, as there would be a direct link to the article.
However that would worry me if that was all they were looking at.
I know of myself & one other at work who browse the BBC site (from home) using Linux, and I've spotted a couple more people commenting on here. So there must only be another 590-odd Linux users in the UK. I feel honoured to be part of such a select group...
Cheers for that - I hadn't looked that far into the website obviously.
As far as I'm aware from looking briefly at the Debian website, I think so.
s o-cd/
This time, however, you have a choice of 3 "first" CDs - the default one that includes GNOME, one that includes KDE, and one that includes XFCE. This should, in theory, mean that you get only the desktop stuff that you need. They are listed on the main iso-cd download page, which for i386 is http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/4.0_r0/i386/i
However I will say this - I have not installed a Debian desktop from CD only for a couple of years, and am unlikely to do so in the near future. So I could be wrong...
When I was at university in the UK a few years ago, someone came round to the Student Union & handed out these type of bulb, maximum of two per student. Since I was living in a shared house with 4 other students at the time, we could easily manage to use them in every light fitting that would take them.
Of course, at least two of the people in the house claimed that they couldn't use them in their room, as they couldn't cope with fluorescent lights, or they flickered, or they took too long to warm up...
We mainly used them in those rooms that had the lights on for the longest periods in the end.
Define people not upgrading. We played with this at work about a day ago... my PC (WinXP, SP2, patched to date) was fine with IE, although Firefox got very confused. Opera was quite happy, and ignored the problem. The guy who bought this up was having issues. He was running Win2K, SP4, patched to date. Spot the difference.
He's quite happy running Win2K (and I'd rather do that, but don't have the option). He's up to date, as far as he can be without reinstalling his PC, and he appears to be at risk. There should not be an implied "you should upgrade to the latest OS because you are running an out-of-date one" with this. It's a problem with the browser, not a gaping hole in the OS.