From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Nov 30 14:19:11 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.acns.ab.ca (h24-64-56-135.cg.shawcable.net [24.64.56.135]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 771EC37B421 for ; Fri, 30 Nov 2001 14:19:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from colnta.acns.ab.ca (colnta.acns.ab.ca [192.168.1.2]) by mail.acns.ab.ca (8.11.6/8.11.3) with ESMTP id fAUMJ3b14173; Fri, 30 Nov 2001 15:19:03 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from davidc@colnta.acns.ab.ca) Received: (from davidc@localhost) by colnta.acns.ab.ca (8.11.6/8.11.3) id fAUMJ3S40314; Fri, 30 Nov 2001 15:19:03 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from davidc) Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 15:19:03 -0700 From: Chad David To: Anthony Atkielski Cc: Mike Meyer , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: As usual, I disagree. Message-ID: <20011130151903.A40291@colnta.acns.ab.ca> References: <15366.58396.746782.116282@guru.mired.org><036901c17949$335163b0$0a00000a@atkielski.com><15367.35596.70893.123850@guru.mired.org><03fa01c179ac$e85cdba0$0a00000a@atkielski.com><15367.40254.191788.665077@guru.mired.org><040c01c179b0$c01ff790$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <15367.44663.511557.67023@guru.mired.org> <003801c179eb$2cd9ef00$0a00000a@atkielski.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <003801c179eb$2cd9ef00$0a00000a@atkielski.com>; from anthony@freebie.atkielski.com on Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 11:05:49PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 11:05:49PM +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > Mike writes: > > > Unix has enough applications to be flexible enough > > to get the job done. > > Not for the desktop. Interesting, I've been using it on my desktop for years. > > > That's true for only one of the users I know. For > > the rest, it only matters if they can download a > > copy from the net, or get one from a friend. > > Your users must be mostly geeks. Non-geeks don't know how to download things > from the Net. That hasn't really been true for 2-3 years. Every user I know can download things from the net... in fact I sometimes wish they would forget! > > > First, you might try VNC instead of pcAnywhere. > > I don't plan to attempt any remote administration of NT if I can avoid it. You must not have servers on then 18th floor, users on then 12th and your desk on the 10th :). -- Chad David davidc@acns.ab.ca ACNS Inc. Calgary, Alberta Canada To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message