Liberty Young wrote:
>On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 12:04, Chris Gehlker wrote:
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>>> On Oct 30, 2003, at 11:12 AM, Austin Godber wrote:
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>>>>> >> I'm having fun too. But I still didn't get the answer I want. For
>>>>> >> all of us who want to be a squeaky wheel--how do I get my dark-blue
>>>>> >> themed KDE desktop with worldclock background, Mozilla, shell, and
>>>>> >> maybe kstars running to appear on the little green script-reading
>>>>> >> girl's screen?
>>>>> >> --Alexander
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> >
>>>> > Well, in that case, I would suggest a screenshot ... unless you REALLY
>>>> > WANT to give the cox guy direct control over your desktop.
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>>>
>>> Try here for some pointers:
>>> <http://www.rahul.net/kenton/xsites.html#XMicrosoft>. Like Austin, I
>>> don't know why you want to do this. What do you gain by impressing a
>>> little green girl who reads scripts?
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>I am SO into having other people give random others VNC access to their
>machines. <mischievous grin>
>
>also, how would that work? if you're calling them (cox internet tech
>support), it's probably because your network is down. how can rdesktop
>or vnc possible work to others outside your intranet?
>
Exactly. Fun! Impress isn't the right word. Flabbergast. She was
already choked up from some of the things I said that were for her from
outer space, like "DHCP" or "no I don't have a My Computer icon". This
would have nailed the coffin.
Remember I said I managed to miss an unconnected ethernet cable twice,
then got it running. So my network was suddenly up.
There is a slightly more serious reason, though. The girl, multiple
times, just plain didn't listen to what I was saying. So I guess
there's a bit of a lesson for her and revenge from me for not listening.
Also, I agree with Victor, Cox phone techies are usually fairly smart
(but mushroomed). It was really surprising for me to get a person like
this this time; another reason I'd wanted her to look at my desktop and
"check for herself if everything's okay".
Like I said, I was in the mood 8-D
--Alexander
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