Originally Posted by Robin

Fair enough - you guys are ahead of me - I just use the one monitor myself :)

Originally Posted by rhetorical

WTF a bunch of internet pros. Please. You have no idea of the computing power he has at the touch of a keyboard. All you see is three screens. Hell, I am looking at two. There is one across the desk from me and a laptop behind me. But I would guess whatever Bill has blows whatever we have straight to hell and back. I can't believe the response to this thread. Duh.

Originally Posted by Jace

um...bill gates has made it clear on numerous occasions that he never has the cutting edge shit, or something like that

plus, i doubt what we see there beats my machine, except he has one more monitor than I do

Tyan Thunder Dual Xeon 3.9EGHz, 4gb ram

Originally Posted by Inabon

all that power and only one montior LOL i know you are joking

thats like having a v8 with a 1 barrel carburetor.

are those dual core??

if so maybe you beat me but i bet you only use 1.5 gig of ram and most of it is spyware :)

yea yea geek fight comeon bring it on LOL

Originally Posted by gonzo

VNC sux

Originally Posted by gonzo

VNC sux

Originally Posted by Jace

I said bill has one more monitor than I do....check the pic ;) I have dual 19" monitors

they are Xeon 2.8EGHz 800MHz bus 2mb cache

the reason I got the machine is because I write a lot of music, plus do shitload of video editing, and I was sick of having to upgrade to a new computer every year...I wanted something that is going to last at least 3 years

I don't even actually physcially touch the machine unless I am editing video or writing music, when I need to use it or do something on it I VNC in and do what I need to do

Originally Posted by Inabon

ok so it is not your daily pc now we are talking

what sound card do you have? usually heavy procs are good for video but a nice pro soundcard should not mess you up.

Originally Posted by Inabon

ok so it is not your daily pc now we are talking

Originally Posted by Jace

well of course not, I don't game and I hate sitting at a desk...I do use it daily though through vnc, why do you all hate vnc so much? it is most handy shit I use on a daily basis, it saves me from running up and down the stairs 100 times a day

oh, and the video card is the only thing I need to upgrade right now, it is a firegl v3100

Originally Posted by Inabon

vnc is slow the only advantage is the drivers thing but if you do server admin RDP is way better faster less bandwith consuming.

yeah nice card but yeah you need upgrade :) try pinnacle :) expensive but you will love it and probably will extend the life of your pc by 5 to 8 years unless some new proc and video crunching application comes up. but for the rest of us mortals that should be cool

Originally Posted by Jace

hm..I haven't had any slowness with VNC at all, but then again I ONLY use it to vnc across a local network

in fact, it is quite speedy and suits my needs just fine

Is RDP the windows version of vnc? if so I tried that and hated it, it was super buggy when I tried it

Originally Posted by Inabon

ermmn its the other way around but yeah thats it...

what was buggy about it? i mean it is only remote desktop nothing else :) new windows xp version you can share harddrives on connection so no need for a different client to upload.

but again i only manage servers no aps like you so there is a difference. and yes its because you are in LAN but it gets slow over a couple of thousands of miles of fiber :)

Originally Posted by Jace

don't you need xppro anyway? my new lappy only has xphome on it, i dont' think it has RDP

Originally Posted by Hell Puppy

Careful about telling people you have VNC loaded.

I hear there might be hackers here.

Originally Posted by rhetorical

Thank God I hire people to do this shit. Way too many acronyms flying around here. I have no idea what you guys are even talking about.

Originally Posted by Jace

you hire people to log into your computer remotely? talk about wasted money :yowsa:

Originally Posted by Hammer

Actually, I use mine remotely all the time when I'm out of town and it's very handy. I don't have to use webmail but can actually check my email on my office computer. I can access files and programs I don't have on my laptop too and I can do it all from a hotel thousands of miles away from my office.

Originally Posted by Hammer

Actually, I use mine remotely all the time when I'm out of town and it's very handy. I don't have to use webmail but can actually check my email on my office computer. I can access files and programs I don't have on my laptop too and I can do it all from a hotel thousands of miles away from my office.

Originally Posted by gonzo

I wouldnt recomend doing that next week at the Westin.

Originally Posted by Hammer

And why's that?

Here's the service I use and I believe it is quite secure. http://secure.logmein.com/dmcq/095i/home.asp

Originally Posted by Hell Puppy

Careful about telling people you have VNC loaded.

I hear there might be hackers here.

Originally Posted by Inabon

cause westin internet sucks ass you will be sent back to 56k modem era if it is online LOL trust me i know

Originally Posted by Inabon

ok can i have ya'lls ip adresses LOL

Originally Posted by Hammer

Actually I've always had pretty good luck with the Internet there for the past few years, especially compared to the other hotels I've stayed at lately.