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On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 02:15:52PM +0100, Renat Golubchyk wrote: |
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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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Skype + gimp/inkscape ? |
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Use your tablet to draw in any image editing program. Save to file. |
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Skype has the ability to send file on demand. It will be slightly |
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slower, but still faster than just talking. I know Skype has a lot of |
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"Whiteboard" plugins, but they look like they only work for Windows |
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clients. (Back in the 90s my father and I used to use this internet |
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voice chat software called Aloha that has whiteboards built-in.) |
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Or maybe Coccinella? |
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http://packages.gentoo.org/package/net-im/coccinella |
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Its package description says "Jabber Client with Built-in Whiteboard |
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and VoIP". I've never used it myself. You can probably grok through |
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the net-im category yourself to find others. |
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Cheers, |
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Willie W. Wong wwong@××××××××××××××.edu |
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Data aequatione quotcunque fluentes quantitae involvente fluxiones invenire |
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et vice versa ~~~ I. Newton |
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