On 1/4/2011 11:05 AM Metspitzer spake thus:

On Tue, 04 Jan 2011 12:26:12 -0600, Vic Smith
wrote:

Crazy stuff. I build my own too. You must have incredible patience
to deal with your customers. Hope you don't do much work over the
phone. Every time I walk through PC issues on the phone with family
members, I lose it at least once.

Have you ever tried GBridge? It lets you take control of the remote
computer (with a Gmail account). My sister is so computer illiterate,
I don't think she would be able to set this up. I would really like
something that would let me take control of her computer. She is a
natural blonde. She really really doesn't get computers.

There are other pieces of software that do that as well.

Back in 2005 when I owned a small business, my bookkeeper used something
like that to run my computer from afar; I could watch him cursor around
the desktop, open apps, etc. Don't remember the name (PC Anywhere?), but
I *think* it used the VPN (virtual private network) protocol to "tunnel"
into my machine (with my permission, of course).


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To me, the *plonk...* reminds me of the old man at the public hearing
who stands to make his point, then removes his hearing aid as a sign
that he is not going to hear any rebuttals.