Re: Recommendations for laptop for travelling

Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
(1) remote X, as in needing to go further than the local LAN, is very
slow;

That depends on the application. I am currently editing this message
with Emacs (and reading news with xrn), with the X server running at
home, connected to a machine at work through cable modem over ssh.
This setup worked nicely even in 1998 when the speed was 300/64Kb/s.
However, these days the startup of Emacs over this setup (even with
much higher bandwidth) is somewhat slow, but once it is started, it
works fine.

Stuff like gv and xpdf is also usable across my cable modem, although
slow on startup.

I keep my work-related directories on my laptop, my home workstation,
and my workstation in my office at NMSU synchronized using rsync

I manage my data with CVS, which offers some help even if stuff goes
out of sync.

- anton
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