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On Thursday 18 February 2010 15:15:52 Renat Golubchyk wrote: |
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> Hi all! |
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> I'm looking for a solution to the following problem. |
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> My relatives live 200 km away. They have a daughter, and I need to help |
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> her out with school homework etc. At the moment we cannot do it on a |
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> regular basis, because doing it over the phone is really difficult and |
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> time consuming. I thought some screen sharing software would solve |
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> this. A video conferencing or a VoIP feature would be a nice bonus, |
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> too. For easy writing I would probably buy graphics tablets since |
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> writing math formulas or drawing isn't particularly fast or easy with |
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> keyboard and mouse. |
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> So, is there some easy-to-use Linux program? I have Linux desktops on |
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> both ends (Ubuntu and Gentoo), so portability or OS-independence is not |
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> a requirement. |
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> Do you have any other ideas? For the record, we have a 2 Mbit DSL line |
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> on one end and a 6 Mbit on the other. Those are, of course, downstream |
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> bandwidth rates. |
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> Best wishes, |
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> Renat |
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remote desktop would be ideal except you can't usually share desktops with it. |
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Investigate tightvnc - the data stream can be compressed and it's very |
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efficient. |
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You could use skype for the human-to-human communication. There are of course |
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tons of alternatives but I imagine a girl at school is already very familiar |
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with skype. |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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