RE: Cable Broadband

["Mark W. Knecht" <mknecht controlnet com>]

Hi,
   Jonathon may have the same problem I had. I needed to connect to a
machine at the office that had PC Anywhere. Other people connected to that
machine also, and PC Anywhere had been chosen as the way to connect. To use
VNC required that the target machine have VNC installed, and the IT people
didn't want to support that. The only thing they supported was PC Anywhere.

   They knew I could access it, because I had in the past from my Windows
machines. It was not important to them to allow Linux based, or even non-PC
Anywhere-based, people to connect.

   So, it was truly important that Win4Lin support PC Anywhere, but at that
time they didn't and I was out of luck.

   VMware would be a fine solution, I think, except that it's a lot slower.

   And the fact that I could run Win 3.1, 95, & 98 at the same time was just
fun and cool. I didn't see it as sacrilegious, really, but more as you say,
proof that the playing field could be leveled. MY hope, for the future,
would be a perfect Win 98SE environment under something like Win4Lin, such
that I could run all my hardware specific applications and never have to
change Windows versions again. I'd just go faster and faster and faster
under multiprocessor Linux...

Cheers,
Mark

-----Original Message-----
From: redhat-install-list-admin redhat com
[mailto:redhat-install-list-admin redhat com]On Behalf Of Rick Stevens
Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 2:21 PM
To: redhat-install-list redhat com
Subject: Re: Cable Broadband


Mark W. Knecht wrote:
> Rick, et. all,
>    I've used Win4Lin. It's a great program.
>
>    I haven't used it in a while, but when I was PC Anywhere, neither the
> server or the remote client, worked for me. I worked pretty hard to try
and
> get it going, but was not successful. I certainly may have missed
something,
> but at that time I don't think anyone was able to make it work.

Quite possible.  Their networking models are a bit strange.  I found the
aliased version more reliable.

> [snip]
>    That said, I love Win4Lin, and if you think seeing one copy of Windows
> running under Linux is weird, try the server version. I've run 4 copies of
> different versions of Windows at the same time. Very cool!

It's just, well, sacrilegious, to let Winblows live on a Linux box.
I find it proof of Linux' "level playing field" concept that such a
project could be considered, implemented and that it works.  In some
cases, it works better than Winblows solo.  Micro$loth would NEVER let
that happen!  But then again, I recall having an Emplant board and
a BridgeBoard in my Amiga 3000.  AmigaDOS, Unix, Winblows and Mac,
all on one system.  Now THAT was impressive!

"What?  LINUX?  Ye Gods!  Thou heathen!  Thou vile creature!  Knoweth
ye, that but Windows exists!  All other operating systems are the work
of the Dark Ones, and the use of such shall Damn you to eternal
Hellfire and Brimstone!  Begone, ye varlot!  Ye blastphemer!  Ye
heretic!  Begone, I say!"

                             -- Microsoft to a Linux user

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