September 21st, 2006 Priyanka Joshi
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Every day we leave our laptops and PCs and happily tootle off around the office, grab a cup of tea, chat with colleagues or
generally just hide in some corner so that no one can find us.
Of course that means saving and closing work or logging off altogether, which is a pain if you don’t plan to be away for long. A simple solution for Windows XP users is to lock the screen. To do this you press ‘L’ and the ‘Windows’ key which looks like a four-box-blurred window. This will take you to the log-in page whilst keeping your documents active but untampered. Simple, but effective.
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September 21st, 2006 at 7:32 pm
A more simple solution would be in Linux. Right click and the screen is locked. It holds good for KDE; I am not sure about the other desktops though.
Why Windows gets all the attention it doesn’t deserve? What is missing in Linux?
September 22nd, 2006 at 12:05 pm
I agree compltely….Linux needs more popularity agreed…but windows is omnipresent and we have to deal with it!!!! Thus my solution was for the millions (who dont already know it…coz its no rocket science)
I hope to simplify linux here and maybe offer a few great downloads that would help people realise the usability of an open source software!
September 22nd, 2006 at 4:22 pm
Any suggestions on what these downloads could be ? Have you seen the Sun desktop access feature..where you insert a card anywhere on the network and the screen pops open with all your stuff just as you left it last. Pull the card out of the slot and its gone ! On Wide Area Networks, it works anywhere in your organisation’s system..nothing new of course but interesting !
September 22nd, 2006 at 4:53 pm
I have read somewhere about the same, but not come face to face with it yet. I was aware of software that lets you access desktop, remotely. The idea being : wherever one is, if you have internet access, you can work as if you were sitting at your home computer. While this thought has been around it was given new life with the release of Windows XP Professional.
You might have heard of Virtual Network Computing (VNC) that it lets you control not only Windows-based PCs, but a variety of other platforms as well. (I tried this) All you have to do is download the application, install, and then run the server on the machine that you want to control. Then you run the client on the machine that you want to control it from.
I tried it on a wireless network but have been looking for a better way of using the laptop throughout the house without having to install all of the applications that I use daily on both my PC and my laptop.
September 22nd, 2006 at 10:38 pm
Ubuntu Cd’s come with Open CD project loaded (I haven’t used it yet since I am on with Linux for couple of years now). That should be a good option to point to the Open Source software. This is for the Windows CD users.
The choice for the distro is personal; but it would be interesting to see as to how you would approach the issue in your write ups. We are deviating from the issue but under it’s hood, Linux seriously kicks ass. I was surprised (and amazed) to see the level of refinements in Ubuntu. Windows is old, jaded and it’s a locked in format.
September 23rd, 2006 at 3:12 pm
I see your passion on OSS…I hope that I can match it up with a few of my write ups on OSS and LInux maybe….I have been using it since collge days and I am yet to complain
which is a good sign….
Read my review about ‘Open Source and Law’ a book by Priti Suri and Associates in BS soon….