Yes, I tried that after the Messenger route failed. That's when it told me that it couldn't resolve the hostname of my Dad's PC - as I said, no big surprise there. I assume that method's for a LAN/Corporate environment.
Refer to the reply to your post that explains that you can use Windows Messenger to do it - yes, I've done it for friends and I've never had an issue - firewall, or no firewall
Refer to my reply.
You figured that since Remote Assistance is a MS feature, it must be crappy by default. Sorry, no luck there.
No, I'm not an anti-MS slashbot - I decided it didn't work because it didn't work whenever I tried it. So sorry, no luck there.
Yeah I've tried MSN Messenger. It always says that my Dad's version of Messenger did not support Remote Assistance. Never mind that he was running the exact same version as me.
I'm not actually an idiot - I did try the obvious way first.
But of course, I'm talking bullshit, and it 'works every time'.
How does it compare? Well, it actually works, for a start.
The last time I tried Remote Assistance to help my Dad who was 100 miles away, it said it couldn't find the host 'dadpc'. No kidding professor. If I have to set up static IP and external DNS for my dad's home PC and configure port forwarding on his router/firewall to use Remote Assist, I'll just install VNC thanks.
With CoPilot (as I understand it), both ends just act as a client, and you go through the CoPilot servers - so if you can make an outbound TCP/IP connection to their VNC servers (I'm guessing they support port 80 for obvious reasons), then you win, and nobody gets goo on them.
Michael Moore (so possibly biased, YMMV, contents may have settled during transit, etc) did this thing once where he send 3 people into hospitals who were faking the same injury (sprained/damaged ankle, I think, or possibly something to do with their foot). Only he sent one to a US hospital, one to a Canadian hospital, and one to a Cuban hospital.
The one in Cuba was seen and dealt with the most quickly, then the one in Canada, then the one in the US. I believe the overall 'quality' of service was also best in Cuba. The guy in the US was left in a corridor on a wheelchair with one leg raised, where people kept walking into his bandaged foot.
So, utterly anecdotal and certainly hardly scientific (well, it is Michael Moore), but it makes you wonder. It's just a shame about the free speech/human rights issues they have there though.
I mean in Cuba, not the US...then again, the US seems to outsource their human rights violations to Cuba these days;-)
The sound hardware seems totally OTT. I built a media PC and I bought an Intel motherboard with a 7.1 audio chipset with S/PDIF output onboard for about 80ukp. I just plug it into my AV amp, and that's it - sound is a solved problem. What exactly does the sound card in this setup do that will make a difference to a media PC? I mean, all the sound will be 100% digital until it arrives at the amp, so having marvellous SNR or something is pointless anyway.
Or is it so they can play games with uber sound processing effects?
(Also, I guess, I haven't been dumb enough to buy DRM'd online music or DVD-Audio, so the $100 rip-off dongle is a non-starter for me anyway).
In my experience, Windows devs are pseudo-technical. They know a there's 1024 b's in a k, but not why.
In my experience, Linux devs are smug geeks who think they're hardcore because they build the apps they use from the source. The last Linux dev I worked with was a goddamn fucking incompetent muppet*. What's your point?
There are idiots in every profession. I've worked with lots of Windows devs, and I've never met one who loved 'their restarts and drive defrags'.
Btw:
Why do you have to reboot when you install something as simple as Nero?
Nero is probably a bad example - it talks to hardware in a way that most apps don't. But come to think of it, I don't think I had to reboot the last time I installed Nero.
And as for 'every single installer would restart the computer', I'll grant you that some installers insist on a restart for seemingly arbitrary reasons, but 'every single' one? Not even close.
If you're going to rag on Windows installers, complain about something valid, like the fact that many of them seem to think that installing the software is the most important thing you will ever do and so cover the screen with a full screen window (if you're unlucky, with the BGBG), and try to prevent you using your system while it's doing something as radical as making a new directory and copying some files into it (oh noes!)
* Sorry, still angry about that fucking over-confident smug arrogant twat of a know-nothing ham-fisted couldn't program or design a database schema his way out of a wet paper bag if his fucking life depended on it shithead, whose 4 months of work I had to throw away and rewrote in 3 weeks to a much higher standard, including the time taken to learn the web framework that he was supposedly expert in. But it's ok, the nurse says I'm making progress.
Is there something you would like to share with the group?
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Remote - Of course the new mini will support the Apple remote.
The OP was moaning that the only remote he could get 'only' had 20 buttons. iirc, the Apple remote has 6 buttons (a fact Mr Jobs was crowing about at the launch). How happy do you think the OP will be with only 6 buttons?
So that's what the religious war was about in Halo! The Aliens using OpenOffice against the heretic humans using Microsoft Office. Or possibly the other way around.
I always wondered why both sides hated each other so much.
This makes it easy to incorporate customized movie openings and intermissions for a truly personalized theatrical experience.
I know someone whose friend has a home theatre setup, and he has a DVD with the 'Pearl & Dean' bumper* on it that he plays when friends come round to watch a film. Er, that will probably only make sense to UK residents over a certain age:)
it would be an insidiously powerfull, usefull, and fun thing to play with.
When's the last time a code name was also used for the retail product?
I'm not 100% sure, but in addition to the others people have mentioned, I think 'Xbox' was actually used as the codename for the MS console project. It was originally Project Midway, but they dropped that due to bad PR when it leaked. I seem to remember that it just turned into a "Well, Xbox is actually a good name - why don't we use that for real?" sort of thing.
I used to not watch TV, but I found I was spending so much time telling other people (who didn't want to know) about how I don't watch TV, that it took up less time just to watch the damn TV instead.
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I think that means different things to different people ;-)
Yes, I always find it much easier to win arguments when I get to redefine what words mean, too.
Does anyone have a Mac?
I'm not sure many would agree with that either.
#include "FightClubRef.h"
Yes, I tried that after the Messenger route failed. That's when it told me that it couldn't resolve the hostname of my Dad's PC - as I said, no big surprise there. I assume that method's for a LAN/Corporate environment.
Refer to my reply.
No, I'm not an anti-MS slashbot - I decided it didn't work because it didn't work whenever I tried it. So sorry, no luck there.
I'm not actually an idiot - I did try the obvious way first.
But of course, I'm talking bullshit, and it 'works every time'.
I just knew someone would say that :-)
The last time I tried Remote Assistance to help my Dad who was 100 miles away, it said it couldn't find the host 'dadpc'. No kidding professor. If I have to set up static IP and external DNS for my dad's home PC and configure port forwarding on his router/firewall to use Remote Assist, I'll just install VNC thanks.
With CoPilot (as I understand it), both ends just act as a client, and you go through the CoPilot servers - so if you can make an outbound TCP/IP connection to their VNC servers (I'm guessing they support port 80 for obvious reasons), then you win, and nobody gets goo on them.
It's sponsored by Fox, because they needed new TV show ideas - this one will be "When Speed Regulators Kick In".
The one in Cuba was seen and dealt with the most quickly, then the one in Canada, then the one in the US. I believe the overall 'quality' of service was also best in Cuba. The guy in the US was left in a corridor on a wheelchair with one leg raised, where people kept walking into his bandaged foot.
So, utterly anecdotal and certainly hardly scientific (well, it is Michael Moore), but it makes you wonder. It's just a shame about the free speech/human rights issues they have there though.
I mean in Cuba, not the US...then again, the US seems to outsource their human rights violations to Cuba these days ;-)
Or is it so they can play games with uber sound processing effects?
(Also, I guess, I haven't been dumb enough to buy DRM'd online music or DVD-Audio, so the $100 rip-off dongle is a non-starter for me anyway).
Ah, I see. Sorry. Yes, sounds like you were working with idiots :-)
1066. Battle of Hastings.
Or, if you prefer, any time an American tourist spends time in France.
"According to a poll, who are the rudest people in Europe?"
"American tourists..?"
In my experience, Linux devs are smug geeks who think they're hardcore because they build the apps they use from the source. The last Linux dev I worked with was a goddamn fucking incompetent muppet*. What's your point?
There are idiots in every profession. I've worked with lots of Windows devs, and I've never met one who loved 'their restarts and drive defrags'.
Btw:
Nero is probably a bad example - it talks to hardware in a way that most apps don't. But come to think of it, I don't think I had to reboot the last time I installed Nero.
And as for 'every single installer would restart the computer', I'll grant you that some installers insist on a restart for seemingly arbitrary reasons, but 'every single' one? Not even close.
If you're going to rag on Windows installers, complain about something valid, like the fact that many of them seem to think that installing the software is the most important thing you will ever do and so cover the screen with a full screen window (if you're unlucky, with the BGBG), and try to prevent you using your system while it's doing something as radical as making a new directory and copying some files into it (oh noes!)
* Sorry, still angry about that fucking over-confident smug arrogant twat of a know-nothing ham-fisted couldn't program or design a database schema his way out of a wet paper bag if his fucking life depended on it shithead, whose 4 months of work I had to throw away and rewrote in 3 weeks to a much higher standard, including the time taken to learn the web framework that he was supposedly expert in. But it's ok, the nurse says I'm making progress.
Is there something you would like to share with the group?
The OP was moaning that the only remote he could get 'only' had 20 buttons. iirc, the Apple remote has 6 buttons (a fact Mr Jobs was crowing about at the launch). How happy do you think the OP will be with only 6 buttons?
Covenant language?
So that's what the religious war was about in Halo! The Aliens using OpenOffice against the heretic humans using Microsoft Office. Or possibly the other way around.
I always wondered why both sides hated each other so much.
Time to call in the Arbiter!
I know someone whose friend has a home theatre setup, and he has a DVD with the 'Pearl & Dean' bumper* on it that he plays when friends come round to watch a film. Er, that will probably only make sense to UK residents over a certain age :)
Well, 2 out of 3 aint bad :)
* "Ba baa ba baa ba baa ba baa ba ba ba..."
I'm not 100% sure, but in addition to the others people have mentioned, I think 'Xbox' was actually used as the codename for the MS console project. It was originally Project Midway, but they dropped that due to bad PR when it leaked. I seem to remember that it just turned into a "Well, Xbox is actually a good name - why don't we use that for real?" sort of thing.
They also laughed at Coco the Clown.
I used to not watch TV, but I found I was spending so much time telling other people (who didn't want to know) about how I don't watch TV, that it took up less time just to watch the damn TV instead.
Actually, given the guy's previous job, I was thinking that it pretty much described "New Coke".
(I kid! I know they thought New Coke was good.)