Technology Thread.

[Montreal Wanderer]

Any of you know what a UltraVNC Viewer is? Is that the thing that lets me connect with the company server or something more sinister?

I think it allows your computer to control a remote computer over a network. Tech support types use it to take over your computer so they can fix things without running over (lazy buggers). I don't think it is especially sinister.

[Worthy4England]

Any of you know what a UltraVNC Viewer is? Is that the thing that lets me connect with the company server or something more sinister?

I think it allows your computer to control a remote computer over a network. Tech support types use it to take over your computer so they can fix things without running over (lazy buggers). I don't think it is especially sinister.

It's a bit of software that allows you to control a computer remotely. So all the processing is done at the far end from you (where your servers are located) or someone coming into your computer from wherever they are located.

[Bruce Rioja]

Any of you know what a UltraVNC Viewer is? Is that the thing that lets me connect with the company server or something more sinister?

It is for remote control sessions I think. You know, like when the IT geeks take over your PC and click on shit to make it better. This is usually after telling you to reboot it several times, unplug it and other useless shite.

Ah right. I thought that that was what this LogMeIn thing was for

[Abdoulaye's Twin]

Any of you know what a UltraVNC Viewer is? Is that the thing that lets me connect with the company server or something more sinister?

It is for remote control sessions I think. You know, like when the IT geeks take over your PC and click on shit to make it better. This is usually after telling you to reboot it several times, unplug it and other useless shite.

Ah right. I thought that that was what this LogMeIn thing was for

logmein is similar software. Never used it so couldn't tell you what it might do different. Just don't press the fn key and 7th key in from the left together

[Worthy4England]

Any of you know what a UltraVNC Viewer is? Is that the thing that lets me connect with the company server or something more sinister?

It is for remote control sessions I think. You know, like when the IT geeks take over your PC and click on shit to make it better. This is usually after telling you to reboot it several times, unplug it and other useless shite.

Ah right. I thought that that was what this LogMeIn thing was for

It is too....

It depends whether they've been installed to access your PC or whether your using them to access back-end server systems...

[Bruce Rioja]

Any of you know what a UltraVNC Viewer is? Is that the thing that lets me connect with the company server or something more sinister?

It is for remote control sessions I think. You know, like when the IT geeks take over your PC and click on shit to make it better. This is usually after telling you to reboot it several times, unplug it and other useless shite.

Ah right. I thought that that was what this LogMeIn thing was for

It is too....

It depends whether they've been installed to access your PC or whether your using them to access back-end server systems...

Nah, I think that the LogMeIn jobbie is there so that the bods can sort my shit out on here when I've fecked things up........... again

I assume that the other one is the one that lets me access certain parts of the company server. Though I could well be wrong.

[Worthy4England]

Any of you know what a UltraVNC Viewer is? Is that the thing that lets me connect with the company server or something more sinister?

It is for remote control sessions I think. You know, like when the IT geeks take over your PC and click on shit to make it better. This is usually after telling you to reboot it several times, unplug it and other useless shite.

Ah right. I thought that that was what this LogMeIn thing was for

It is too....

It depends whether they've been installed to access your PC or whether your using them to access back-end server systems...

Nah, the LogMeIn jobbie is there so that the bods can sort my shit out on here when I've fecked things up........... again

I assume that the other one is the one that lets me access certain parts of the company server. Though I could well be wrong.

Ok uVNC is just a different type of the same thing as LogMeIn...

[Wandering Willy]

Oh that'd be in then!

I have to say I wouldn't have bothered at all, but they were flogging them off cheap at work. So I actually got it around £350 cheaper than the iPad 64gb. In fairness, it had a proprietary OS on it, which was probably the best in the market place, but no Apps - because the dense tw@t that headed up that Division must've thought that people would buy it for it's OS...

It did work great out of the box, but I figured lobbing Android OS on it would give access to more apps, so that's what I did. Took about an hour of my time.

So other than having to know someone to get it cheap and having to load another OS on it for it to do what you want it do, it's better than an ipad.

Read what I said.

I said I have a tablet - I'm not sure what I get additional for the £200 extra (at list price).

What I got it for was well over the £200 less than a 64Gb iPad - nearer £350. The someone I know is me, so I didn't have to know anyone else. It took me an hour to re-flash the ROM to Android and most of that was download time.

What do I get extra for what was around £350? Other than the brand name?

I'm trying to follow what you said. I think you bought a tablet for £200 less than an ipad but it might have been £350, as long as you bought fom yourself.

You're not sure, so neither am I. Nonetheless, it's better than an ipad if you can reprogram it.

[Montreal Wanderer]

Oh that'd be in then!

I have to say I wouldn't have bothered at all, but they were flogging them off cheap at work. So I actually got it around £350 cheaper than the iPad 64gb. In fairness, it had a proprietary OS on it, which was probably the best in the market place, but no Apps - because the dense tw@t that headed up that Division must've thought that people would buy it for it's OS...

It did work great out of the box, but I figured lobbing Android OS on it would give access to more apps, so that's what I did. Took about an hour of my time.

So other than having to know someone to get it cheap and having to load another OS on it for it to do what you want it do, it's better than an ipad.

Read what I said.

I said I have a tablet - I'm not sure what I get additional for the £200 extra (at list price).

What I got it for was well over the £200 less than a 64Gb iPad - nearer £350. The someone I know is me, so I didn't have to know anyone else. It took me an hour to re-flash the ROM to Android and most of that was download time.

What do I get extra for what was around £350? Other than the brand name?

I'm trying to follow what you said. I think you bought a tablet for £200 less than an ipad but it might have been £350, as long as you bought fom yourself.

You're not sure, so neither am I. Nonetheless, it's better than an ipad if you can reprogram it.

I've an idea. Let's get a1 to explain it to Willy - that'll keep him quiet for a while.

[Worthy4England]

Oh that'd be in then!

I have to say I wouldn't have bothered at all, but they were flogging them off cheap at work. So I actually got it around £350 cheaper than the iPad 64gb. In fairness, it had a proprietary OS on it, which was probably the best in the market place, but no Apps - because the dense tw@t that headed up that Division must've thought that people would buy it for it's OS...

It did work great out of the box, but I figured lobbing Android OS on it would give access to more apps, so that's what I did. Took about an hour of my time.

So other than having to know someone to get it cheap and having to load another OS on it for it to do what you want it do, it's better than an ipad.

Read what I said.

I said I have a tablet - I'm not sure what I get additional for the £200 extra (at list price).

What I got it for was well over the £200 less than a 64Gb iPad - nearer £350. The someone I know is me, so I didn't have to know anyone else. It took me an hour to re-flash the ROM to Android and most of that was download time.

What do I get extra for what was around £350? Other than the brand name?

I'm trying to follow what you said. I think you bought a tablet for £200 less than an ipad but it might have been £350, as long as you bought fom yourself.

You're not sure, so neither am I. Nonetheless, it's better than an ipad if you can reprogram it.

I'm dead sure. Dead sure this is pointless.

Whatever.

[Wandering Willy]

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Wrong, we've been 'sucked' into thinking we're buying exactly what we want. Which is why we buy them. If I didn't want one, I wouldn't buy one. What makes you assume that people who purchase technologies are somehow duped and not able to think for themselves?

I find people's constant criticism of other people choice of purchase both baffling and downright irritating

If you think you've got exactly what you need then you've been sucked in, because I guarantee that in ten years time look back on whatever it is you've got presently and think what a pile of wank.

I'm sorry I'm irritating... actually, fxck it, I'm not, sorry that is. You'll live get over it.

[boltonboris]

I have never once thought I needed it. What makes you think that? I WANTED one, so I bought one. If that somehow bothers, that I WANTED one, so bought one, then that's none of my concern.

[thebish]

I have never once thought I needed it. What makes you think that? I WANTED one, so I bought one. If that somehow bothers, that I WANTED one, so bought one, then that's none of my concern.

indeed - that's pretty much how advertising works - i'm not sure why LLS seems so surprised or enraged in this particular case. Advertising persuades us to want a load of stuff we don't really need... it's what makes the economy go round...

most of the stuff i have, I don't really NEED - and I'm sure most people on the forum are in the same position*.

*(with the possible exception of the General who couldn't imagine life without his i-pad)

[Lost Leopard Spot]

I have never once thought I needed it. What makes you think that? I WANTED one, so I bought one. If that somehow bothers, that I WANTED one, so bought one, then that's none of my concern.

indeed - that's pretty much how advertising works - i'm not sure why LLS seems so surprised or enraged in this particular case. Advertising persuades us to want a load of stuff we don't really need... it's what makes the economy go round...

most of the stuff i have, I don't really NEED - and I'm sure most people on the forum are in the same position*.

*(with the possible exception of the General who couldn't imagine life without his i-pad)

Am I coming across as enraged? I'm not. If you read back I posted that there were 3 pages of 'discussion' around whether Apple was the dog's bollocks or not - I commented on that and got boltonboris on my case. I'm hardly enraged, more despondent.

[Annoyed Grunt]

Wrong, we've been 'sucked' into thinking we're buying exactly what we want. Which is why we buy them. If I didn't want one, I wouldn't buy one. What makes you assume that people who purchase technologies are somehow duped and not able to think for themselves?

I find people's constant criticism of other people choice of purchase both baffling and downright irritating

If you think you've got exactly what you need then you've been sucked in, because I guarantee that in ten years time look back on whatever it is you've got presently and think what a pile of wank.

I'm sorry I'm irritating... actually, fxck it, I'm not, sorry that is. You'll live get over it.

I have never once thought I needed it. What makes you think that? I WANTED one, so I bought one. If that somehow bothers, that I WANTED one, so bought one, then that's none of my concern.

indeed - that's pretty much how advertising works - i'm not sure why LLS seems so surprised or enraged in this particular case. Advertising persuades us to want a load of stuff we don't really need... it's what makes the economy go round...

most of the stuff i have, I don't really NEED - and I'm sure most people on the forum are in the same position*.

*(with the possible exception of the General who couldn't imagine life without his i-pad)

Am I coming across as enraged? I'm not. If you read back I posted that there were 3 pages of 'discussion' around whether Apple was the dog's bollocks or not - I commented on that and got boltonboris on my case. I'm hardly enraged, more despondent.

The first quote is why you've got Boris on your case. You said he'd been sucked in by thinking he needed one.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

The first quote is why you've got Boris on your case. You said he'd been sucked in by thinking he needed one.

Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhsh. I think he's gone away.

[mummywhycantieatcrayons]

I have never once thought I needed it. What makes you think that? I WANTED one, so I bought one. If that somehow bothers, that I WANTED one, so bought one, then that's none of my concern.

indeed - that's pretty much how advertising works - i'm not sure why LLS seems so surprised or enraged in this particular case. Advertising persuades us to want a load of stuff we don't really need... it's what makes the economy go round...

most of the stuff i have, I don't really NEED - and I'm sure most people on the forum are in the same position*.

*(with the possible exception of the General who couldn't imagine life without his i-pad)

I thought we'd established that the General had just bought a tank top and was defending his right to bare arms?

[Montreal Wanderer]

I have never once thought I needed it. What makes you think that? I WANTED one, so I bought one. If that somehow bothers, that I WANTED one, so bought one, then that's none of my concern.

indeed - that's pretty much how advertising works - i'm not sure why LLS seems so surprised or enraged in this particular case. Advertising persuades us to want a load of stuff we don't really need... it's what makes the economy go round...

most of the stuff i have, I don't really NEED - and I'm sure most people on the forum are in the same position*.

*(with the possible exception of the General who couldn't imagine life without his i-pad)

I thought we'd established that the General had just bought a tank top and was defending his right to bare arms?

Ouch.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

I have never once thought I needed it. What makes you think that? I WANTED one, so I bought one. If that somehow bothers, that I WANTED one, so bought one, then that's none of my concern.

indeed - that's pretty much how advertising works - i'm not sure why LLS seems so surprised or enraged in this particular case. Advertising persuades us to want a load of stuff we don't really need... it's what makes the economy go round...

most of the stuff i have, I don't really NEED - and I'm sure most people on the forum are in the same position*.

*(with the possible exception of the General who couldn't imagine life without his i-pad)

I thought we'd established that the General had just bought a tank top and was defending his right to bare arms?