Y'know, I'm really surprised that nobody here mentioned Gbridge.
The original poster hit the nail right on the head: the biggest problem with VNC is NATting routers--it's practically impossible to get a n00b to successfully configure a router to allow VNC.
Gbridge (http://www.gbridge.com) is a free app that builds a VPN on top of the Google Talk network. All both parties need is Gbridge and a Gmail account. It supports all kinds of neat things like file transfers and such, and has a version of UltraVNC built in. It's got full access control, too. Very simple, yet very, very powerful.
It takes about two seconds for any novice to install. Three clicks and it's in.
I've been using it for about six months, and I've been very impressed.
My qualifications: I've been divorced since 2001 and have two sons, 12 and 9, who live with their Mom--we've long since worked out our differences and are on the same page as to what's in the best interests of our children.
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First of all, you're NOT on this earth to be their pal. You're there to be their DAD. HUGE difference. Believe me, they'll have plenty of friends--they don't need you for that. If you had kids thinking you were gonna have a couple of li'l buddies, then you had kids for the wrong reasons. Sure, they're fun to do bonding things with, but you are their PARENT FIRST. Don't you ever forget that.
How 'bout growing a spine and standing up to your wife, you milqetoast? How 'bout telling her that you don't appreciate it when she makes you look like the bad guy all the time, and that you don't appreciate her using the children as pawns to get back at you. It doesn't matter if you told her a million times. Tell her a million and one. And if she won't listen, drag her to court. The days of the court automatically siding with ex-wifey just because she has a vagina are waning.
And while you're at it, stand up to your kids, too. Aaaaw, Dad's house is boring, waaah! It isn't their decision to be with you. You are not obligated to make their visit fun at your expense.
Who's the Dad here, you or them? If they don't listen, punish them. Consistently. Depending on their ages, stick them in time-outs or ground them. They're going to your place on a regular visitation schedule whether they want to or not. You may only have them a couple of days a month, but those are the couple of days a month that you get to instill your values in them, not Mom's. Make them count.
And I love your last line: get me in trouble with their mother!? Didn't you divorce her, pal? What do you care if you're in trouble with her or not? What could she possibly do to you?
Seriously, dude... man up and grow a pair. Sounds like there's some serious pussification in your life.
Parents have to take the responsibility of being parents. Every TV, cable box, and satellite receiver out on the market already has parental controls built right in. If the parents can't be bothered to figure out how to use it, well, that's just too damn bad.
No matter how hard you try to legislate common sense, it never works. It's like trying to teach a pig to sing, for sure.
For a second there, I thought I was reading The Onion. But, sadly, no. It's a genuine article, it's really on Shashdot, and it's for real.
Those fucking miserable slimy pig disgusting prick bastard cocksuckers. Un-fucking-believeable.
As if suing 12-year-olds and sticking it to Internet radio wasn't bad enough. This is yet another in a long line of examples of how their unbridled corporate greed has destroyed the music industry as we know it and continues to declare Jihad on the consumer.
I will never, ever buy another piece of music again. Any music I want from now on, I steal. And before any of you self-righteous do-gooders spew "But you're only hurting the artist!" I suggest you read this. And then go see a concert. That's where the artists make their real money, not through the labels--or the RIAA.
What's next for the RIAA? Eating babies? Hostage-taking? A public campaign using the slogan "Every time you illegally download a song, God kills a kitten?" My God, how could they possibly get any more despicable!!!???
Homeowners' Associations have so much power and control over your lives anyway, and some people think it's a good idea to give them more!? Outrageous!
HOAs started out as a good idea, but they have become drunk with power. Now they are evil, pure evil. I can't even put up a brand-new window A/C unit to cool my two Linux boxes in my townhouse--around the back, where nobody can see it but me--because it's in the by-laws that we cannot add more air conditioning devices without the express written consent of the board, which they won't give me.
I will not agree to give these Machiavellian maniacs more power to control my life. Never. If I want to give away my Internet access to the neighborhood passers-by, I can. Period.
Next they'll be telling me what kind of peanut butter to buy, and what sexual positions I'm allowed to engage in.
You are every Network Nazi that gives the rest of us IT guys a bad name. You are "Nick Burns, Your Company's Computer Guy."
I'm so glad you're not working for my department. You wouldn't last a week.
And no, not because as a CIO I'm afraid of implementing a change or two, or afraid of giving the users hard cheeze to swallow in the form of increased security policies every once in a while--I'm just not into turning my workplace into the equivalent of the set of Brazil.
What!?
What good is a navigation system if you can't see it from the front seat!?
If you believe that TVs are never installed in a location that is conspicuously visible to the driver, then you obviously have never been to a Circuit City recently. Just about every head unit over $399.00 these days has a flip-out 7"-10" display and a DVD player. And they go right in the dash.
Want proof? go here...
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No, that's not what was said at all. Lassiter has been quoted many times in many other sources publicly taking a stance against creating more Toy Story films--on the grounds that there's little doubt that any sequel couldn't possibly live up to the utter brilliance of the first two films.
It's been said in this topic that Disney is just a money machine, and that is
essentially correct. How many Direct-to-DVD steaming piles has Disney released based on totally brilliant franchises--like, say, Lilo and Stitch, or Beauty and the Beast, all in efforts to squeeze every last drop of revenue out of them?
If Walt Disney were alive today, he wouldn't go for any of that crap; he would never put studio profits ahead of quality (this is one of the many reasons why Roy Disney and Mike Eisner have been bitter
adversaries for so long). Walt was diametrically opposed to releasing a Saturday morning Disney cartoon show, simply because he knew that the production values would be
abysmal for a weekly show. And with all the half-baked weeklies that now crowd Toon Disney's lineup--many of them based on their popular movie franchises--he was ultimately proven very correct. They're crap.
John Lassiter is an artist with an artist's vision; furthermore, he's right. It's been a good run. Leave it alone. Both Toy Story films got 100% on the TomatoMeter-- only two of eight G-rated, animated films to do so (and buttressed, I might add, by no less than three other Disney smash-hit classics)--how can you top that?
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The original poster hit the nail right on the head: the biggest problem with VNC is NATting routers--it's practically impossible to get a n00b to successfully configure a router to allow VNC.
Gbridge (http://www.gbridge.com) is a free app that builds a VPN on top of the Google Talk network. All both parties need is Gbridge and a Gmail account. It supports all kinds of neat things like file transfers and such, and has a version of UltraVNC built in. It's got full access control, too. Very simple, yet very, very powerful.
It takes about two seconds for any novice to install. Three clicks and it's in. I've been using it for about six months, and I've been very impressed.
Nowadays parental controls are on practically everything you can hook up to a TV set. But most parents can't be bothered to learn how to work them.
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My qualifications: I've been divorced since 2001 and have two sons, 12 and 9, who live with their Mom--we've long since worked out our differences and are on the same page as to what's in the best interests of our children.
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First of all, you're NOT on this earth to be their pal. You're there to be their DAD. HUGE difference. Believe me, they'll have plenty of friends--they don't need you for that. If you had kids thinking you were gonna have a couple of li'l buddies, then you had kids for the wrong reasons. Sure, they're fun to do bonding things with, but you are their PARENT FIRST. Don't you ever forget that.
How 'bout growing a spine and standing up to your wife, you milqetoast? How 'bout telling her that you don't appreciate it when she makes you look like the bad guy all the time, and that you don't appreciate her using the children as pawns to get back at you. It doesn't matter if you told her a million times. Tell her a million and one. And if she won't listen, drag her to court. The days of the court automatically siding with ex-wifey just because she has a vagina are waning.
And while you're at it, stand up to your kids, too. Aaaaw, Dad's house is boring, waaah! It isn't their decision to be with you. You are not obligated to make their visit fun at your expense.
Who's the Dad here, you or them? If they don't listen, punish them. Consistently. Depending on their ages, stick them in time-outs or ground them. They're going to your place on a regular visitation schedule whether they want to or not. You may only have them a couple of days a month, but those are the couple of days a month that you get to instill your values in them, not Mom's. Make them count.
And I love your last line: get me in trouble with their mother!? Didn't you divorce her, pal? What do you care if you're in trouble with her or not? What could she possibly do to you?
Seriously, dude... man up and grow a pair. Sounds like there's some serious pussification in your life.
Parents have to take the responsibility of being parents. Every TV, cable box, and satellite receiver out on the market already has parental controls built right in. If the parents can't be bothered to figure out how to use it, well, that's just too damn bad. No matter how hard you try to legislate common sense, it never works. It's like trying to teach a pig to sing, for sure.
For a second there, I thought I was reading The Onion. But, sadly, no. It's a genuine article, it's really on Shashdot, and it's for real. Those fucking miserable slimy pig disgusting prick bastard cocksuckers. Un-fucking-believeable. As if suing 12-year-olds and sticking it to Internet radio wasn't bad enough. This is yet another in a long line of examples of how their unbridled corporate greed has destroyed the music industry as we know it and continues to declare Jihad on the consumer. I will never, ever buy another piece of music again. Any music I want from now on, I steal. And before any of you self-righteous do-gooders spew "But you're only hurting the artist!" I suggest you read this. And then go see a concert. That's where the artists make their real money, not through the labels--or the RIAA. What's next for the RIAA? Eating babies? Hostage-taking? A public campaign using the slogan "Every time you illegally download a song, God kills a kitten?" My God, how could they possibly get any more despicable!!!???
Homeowners' Associations have so much power and control over your lives anyway, and some people think it's a good idea to give them more!? Outrageous!
HOAs started out as a good idea, but they have become drunk with power. Now they are evil, pure evil. I can't even put up a brand-new window A/C unit to cool my two Linux boxes in my townhouse--around the back, where nobody can see it but me--because it's in the by-laws that we cannot add more air conditioning devices without the express written consent of the board, which they won't give me.
I will not agree to give these Machiavellian maniacs more power to control my life. Never. If I want to give away my Internet access to the neighborhood passers-by, I can. Period.
Next they'll be telling me what kind of peanut butter to buy, and what sexual positions I'm allowed to engage in.
You are absolutely &%$^*#@! DREAMING, pal.
You are every Network Nazi that gives the rest of us IT guys a bad name. You are "Nick Burns, Your Company's Computer Guy."
I'm so glad you're not working for my department. You wouldn't last a week.
And no, not because as a CIO I'm afraid of implementing a change or two, or afraid of giving the users hard cheeze to swallow in the form of increased security policies every once in a while--I'm just not into turning my workplace into the equivalent of the set of Brazil.
What!? What good is a navigation system if you can't see it from the front seat!? If you believe that TVs are never installed in a location that is conspicuously visible to the driver, then you obviously have never been to a Circuit City recently. Just about every head unit over $399.00 these days has a flip-out 7"-10" display and a DVD player. And they go right in the dash. Want proof? go here...
It's been said in this topic that Disney is just a money machine, and that is essentially correct. How many Direct-to-DVD steaming piles has Disney released based on totally brilliant franchises--like, say, Lilo and Stitch, or Beauty and the Beast, all in efforts to squeeze every last drop of revenue out of them?
If Walt Disney were alive today, he wouldn't go for any of that crap; he would never put studio profits ahead of quality (this is one of the many reasons why Roy Disney and Mike Eisner have been bitter adversaries for so long). Walt was diametrically opposed to releasing a Saturday morning Disney cartoon show, simply because he knew that the production values would be abysmal for a weekly show. And with all the half-baked weeklies that now crowd Toon Disney's lineup--many of them based on their popular movie franchises--he was ultimately proven very correct. They're crap.
John Lassiter is an artist with an artist's vision; furthermore, he's right. It's been a good run. Leave it alone. Both Toy Story films got 100% on the TomatoMeter-- only two of eight G-rated, animated films to do so (and buttressed, I might add, by no less than three other Disney smash-hit classics)--how can you top that?
Hey--at least they wouldn't dream of doing it in LISP--although some of the characters might have one...