Off-Topic: Looking for Hardware Recommendations

[Mark Phillips]

Thanks for the thoughts. Remote access to the Windows machine works well
with rdesktop - I use it every day. It does not play games well,
however.

Any thoughts on the sharing keyboard/mouse/monitor between the two
machines?

Thanks!

Mark

On Fri, 2008-01-04 at 16:31 -0700, Matt Graham wrote:
> After a long battle with technology, gm5729 wrote:
> > Honestly the best choice is to get a gaming platform/console and use
> > it.... cheaper and designed for games
> 
> I see you missed the OP's saying "one of my daughters likes to play WoW".  You 
> can't play WoW on a WiiXboxPS2 according to Blizzard, so that won't work for 
> the OP's needs.
> 
> Higher-end gaming was never my thing.  xmame, snes9x, epsxe, sdl-gnuboy, and 
> fceu = plenty to keep me amused.  If the games that everybody likes will run 
> OK on an older box with 2200MHz/512M/40G/reasonable graphics card (like the 
> OP said), then it's reasonable to spend $350 on that.  The graphics card spec 
> really depends on the exact games the users want.  To avoid hassles later, it 
> might be worth getting a card that's a little more powerful than you need 
> right now, since game updates may mean the GPU has to work harder.
> 
> Remotely managing a 'Doze machine from a Linux machine can be done reasonably 
> easily.  Turn on whatever 'Doze uses for desktop sharing, then use rdesktop 
> from the Linux side.  Or install TightVNC Server on the 'Doze machine and use 
> any VNC client from the Linux machine.  Remotely managing a Linux box from 
> a 'Doze box is easy; just use PuTTY or a VNC client.  HTH,
>