[T-Will]

Very cool, but the thumbnail thing is slightly disturbing...has he ever heard of a stylus?

[T-Will]

Very cool, but the thumbnail thing is slightly disturbing...has he ever heard of a stylus?

[DoughboyWebDev]

Excuse my ignorance, but is he using the built in Terminal Service app to connect to his MAC? I have both a MAC and a PC and would love to be able to terminal service into my MAC.

[dMores]

thanks sursur for the info.

[Deslock]

Originally Posted by Jason Dunn

"Of course, I can do e-mail and web browsing using the Pocket PC software, but because it's Microsoft, it's bad."

Oh please. :roll: I'll be the first to admit that Pocket Inbox and Pocket Internet Explorer need some serious improvements (especially with IMAP support), but even over WiFi I have a hard time believing that a remote desktop solution could be faster and easier than just firing up Pocket Inbox and hitting "Connect". And having the opinion that everything from Microsoft is "bad" seems to ignore the obvious point that the damn Pocket PC is running on Microsoft software.

While it's likely he was slamming all thing Microsoft, it's possible that he meant any of the following:

• Microsoft's PPC software is bad
• Microsoft's web browsers and email clients are bad
• Microsoft's web browser and email client for PPC are bad

The fact that he uses a PPC isn't necessarily an endorsement for Microsoft ... some people like PPCs for the cool hardware.

[T-Will]

Originally Posted by DoughboyWebDev

Excuse my ignorance, but is he using the built in Terminal Service app to connect to his MAC? I have both a MAC and a PC and would love to be able to terminal service into my MAC.

He's using VNC, an open source remote desktop application, I'm not sure which variant he's using but you might check out this link for some help.

[Phronetix]

Originally Posted by Jason Dunn

[i]
But when I saw that screenshot, I have to admit I was impressed with the way the remote screen actually seemed to fit fairly well. Does OS X scale that well to 640 x 480 resolution? I assume he's using SE_VGA to get real VGA resolution out of his Pocket PC. But then he went and ruined it; this quote from Teddy won my Eye Rolling of the Day award:

"Of course, I can do e-mail and web browsing using the Pocket PC software, but because it's Microsoft, it's bad."

Oh please. :roll: I'll be the first to admit that Pocket Inbox and Pocket Internet Explorer need some serious improvements (especially with IMAP support), but even over WiFi I have a hard time believing that a remote desktop solution could be faster and easier than just firing up Pocket Inbox and hitting "Connect". And having the opinion that everything from Microsoft is "bad" seems to ignore the obvious point that the damn Pocket PC is running on Microsoft software. Teddy the Bear needs some more stuffing in his head - or less, I'm not sure.

Ouch!
Jason (and everyone else who's having a hard time with this guy's comments),

Relax, I'm sure he's one of those guys, (reminiscent of that schizoid kid in your grade three class who'd flipped his new calculator watch out of his pocket in order to attract attention), who was flaunting his, ahem, prowess to the masses at MWSF and was easy to pick out of the crowd by his antics. I bet he made a production out of reaching his system in Austria... to his Apple Powerbook!!! Mein herr!!! He can't even boast a DP G5?

:boohoo:

Remember folks, geekiness and a histrionic personality don't mix, and this proves it's independent of platform.


Phro

[jonathanchoo]

Originally Posted by Deslock

]The fact that he uses a PPC isn't necessarily an endorsement for Microsoft ... some people like PPCs for the cool hardware.

In my case this is so true...Just because I like the PocketPC platform does not mean I will endorse everything Microsoft. For example I won't ever let a Microsoft OS in my car.

[NLS]

Originally Posted by T-Will

He's using VNC, an open source remote desktop application, I'm not sure which variant he's using but you might check out this link for some help.

He is using THIS version... great too.

[rberry88]

Originally Posted by jonathanchoo

In my case this is so true...Just because I like the PocketPC platform does not mean I will endorse everything Microsoft. For example I won't ever let a Microsoft OS in my car.

Whew, I'm glad I'm not the only one that feels this way. Mac's and PC's can play nicely together in the same househould (I have 3 of each with a little one on the way :devilboy: ).

It's funny how people associate hardware and software. A pocketPC runs Microsoft Windows-variant, PC's run MS Windows, Linux, BSD etc and a Mac runs OSX & Linux. Since this is a site for PocketPC's, does it matter what platform of choice the users embrace??

I know its hard to fathom but all platforms can co-exist.

On topic: I tried this with my hx4700 w/ winXP and it worked fine after adding the 3389 port to ZoneAlarm as an excluded port. I haven't tried it on my Mac yet but I'm curious to see how it will compare.

Just my 2 cents.

[juni]

We have

- one XP desktop

- one iMac

- one 12-inch iBook

+ we use the AirPort Express Base Station for wireless.