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Comment Re:Great system for parents (Score 1) 372

would much prefer a modifyer key

Couldn't agree more. Turning Caps Lock into Ctrl is one of the best things you can do for yourself.

This page has a long list of how to do that for most environments:
http://emacswiki.org/emacs/MovingTheCtrlKey

Note that for Windows, it's probably easiest to use SharpKeys, which that page doesn't mention.
http://www.randyrants.com/sharpkeys/

Comment Re:Wake me up when we support multiple video cards (Score 2) 183

I haven't used it myself, but maybe this does what you want?

http://xpra.org/

Or is this the same as the XRDP situation? Although, I don't really understand what you mean by "simply move it to another server" in the Windows context.

Can you really start an executable on one machine and move the running executable to another machine? Your comment further up merely says:

Which one of those lets me start an application on one machine and then continue using it on another machine like Windows has been able to do for well over a decade?

To me, this sounds like RDP: connect from a client machine, start an application on the server, disconnect, reconnect later from another client to continue using the application. The application itself is still running on the same server machine.

Comment Re:And none with a decent interface. (Score 1) 185

Add in a little Hide Caption Titlebar Plus:

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Faddons.mozilla.org%2Ffirefox%2Faddon%2F13505%2F

and you can get rid of that pesky titlebar, too. Perfect browser UI. I use vimperator rather than Pentadactyl, but not having all that wasted chrome is a dream.

Comment Re:Google+? (Score 1) 181

If you've got an Android phone, you can do the following:
  1. Install the Android Debug Bridge on your computer. http://developer.android.com/guide/developing/tools/adb.html
  2. Turn on USB debugging on your phone, and connect it to your computer.
  3. Install Tetherbot http://graha.ms/androidproxy/ on your phone, and start the Socks Proxy Server.
  4. Setup ADB to open a port on your computer that forwards to the port on your phone where the proxy server is listening: "adb forward tcp:5555 tcp:1080"
  5. Set your browser to use localhost:5555 as a proxy server.

Now all your web browsing goes through your phone. If you run Firefox, you can get FoxyProxy to set up URL-based rules for which addresses go through your phone-proxy and which go through your regular company network connection. And no mayo gets on your phone.

Comment Re:What the....? (Score 1) 545

It isn't sarcasm. It's a typo that happens to spell another word, so the little squiggly red lines don't appear to let people know they made a misspelling. Also, hardly anyone here bothers to proof-read their posts, as is clear from the common requests for an "edit" button.

So, it's basically down to laziness.

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