[TikTokk]

Just in case anybody out there is as clueless as I am, here's something I just found today.

I use my wife's WinXP box for IE testing when designing site's. So the old workflow was make a change, roll over to her comp and hit f5. Well I just found out that MS makes a remote desktop client for the mac. Now I just remote into her machine. So now when I need to test the page, I just command-tab to remote desktop and click refresh. So if you already own an XP box, it's much cheaper than buying VPC.

Well, I thought it was pretty cool anyway.

[Phil Sherry]

yeah, i'm about to do exactly the same all next week. i figure if i have to use that damn machine, then at least i'll do it from the comfort of my own Powermac, rather than be sat looking at a Dell. ugh.

[Macola]

Note that it has to be XP Pro, not Home.

[leira]

yeah and if you use an older (sp2 beta) termserv.dll you can even get concurrent sessions. ie 2 people can use the computer at the same time. one at console and one over the network.

Originally posted by TikTokk:
Just in case anybody out there is as clueless as I am, here's something I just found today.

I use my wife's WinXP box for IE testing when designing site's. So the old workflow was make a change, roll over to her comp and hit f5. Well I just found out that MS makes a remote desktop client for the mac. Now I just remote into her machine. So now when I need to test the page, I just command-tab to remote desktop and click refresh. So if you already own an XP box, it's much cheaper than buying VPC.

Well, I thought it was pretty cool anyway.