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The Wanderer

It might be a bit drastic, but the first thing that springs to my mind as a possible solution is a mandatory profile, which will reset itself to its preexisting configuration on every logout. Setting one up locally (rather than with roaming profiles, as when on a domain, which is where I've worked w...

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The console I had first in mind was a Wii, and I might use some older ones as well (as far back as the SNES, though probably not the NES); I can't rule out newer than that in the long run, but it's likely to be at least a year before I bother with any of the current generation. (I have such a big ga...

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Yes, the monitor does have input-switch capability, but I'd still have to manually switch it through that capability. (By "manual" I'm not meaning switching cables around.) Depending on what the video-capture-card solution ends up involving on the software side, "get[ting] the video c...

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The difficulty is that when I'm not using the console, I want to use the monitor for the computer - in fact, I want that to be the default "most of the time" configuration. (This is a $1400 - or possibly $1700, I forget - 30" 2560x1600 IPS panel; not something I want to use only part ...

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Oh. I think I misunderstood what you were talking about; I thought you were proposing to hook the console up to the monitor and then stream the computer to the tablet, which would mean I'd have to switch the monitor from computer use to console use when starting up (and then switch back afterwards)....

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It's a thought, but it would still require me to switch manually from normal computer use to that setup - doable, but more annoying and less convenient than I'd hope for (which is to be able to just power on the console if it's off, launch the viewer program if necessary, and pick up a controller). ...

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For whatever it's worth, I'm not likely to play FPS-style games, or any of the other high-end twitch gameplay sorts. The closest to latency-sensitive gameplay I'm likely to come is a platform-action or Zelda-type game, and I think latency is generally less of an issue in those contexts. (Though when...

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It's worth keeping in mind for the long run, but even a desk suitable for that approach might be a problem in the space I have available, and moving it all to a different room is not going to be an available option anytime remotely soon.

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As I already said, given the constraints of my setup, having separate display devices is not practical. (Short of having the game console's display device be in another room, anyway, which would negate most of the benefit and which is my current setup.)

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Potentially only inches, and certainly no more than two or three feet, at least with my present setup. There are some arrangements I could use that would up that to as much as six to eight feet in some arrangements, but none of them are anything I'm likely to go with. That's measuring from the side ...

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I intend to play the console game sitting at (or, for e.g. Wii games, standing in front of) the desk with the monitor, more or less as if on an emulator, except with the game running on an actual console. One disadvantage of the "switch video inputs" approach is that it means when the game...

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Thanks for the information, and for being interested. ^_^ Please keep me posted!

I'll see about investigating Hauppage cards, and Linux video-capture support more in general, in the meantime.

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That won't help for the case which got me thinking about this, though, which is displaying the video output of a gaming console in a window on the central computer. (In which case smooth realtime video would indeed be required, anyway.) I'm specifically thinking about cases where the other device is...

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Every "picture-in-picture" setup I've ever seen has had the second picture small enough that it wouldn't work well for my purposes. Also, with the display in a window I could leave the window on one virtual desktop while I go do something (e.g. look something up) on another, then come back...

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I figured special hardware would be required, but I wasn't (and still am not) sure it would be enough. I remember what I've read about video-capture cards as indicating that they are generally used, and in some cases may only be designed, for recording video - i.e., encoding and capturing it to file...

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This isn't really properly a hardware or a software question; it probably involves something of both, and may in fact be impossible without severe do-it-yourself in both areas. I wasn't sure where to put it, but this seems likely to be no worse than any; if it belongs elsewhere, feel free to move it...

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I agree on all counts. Those are among the reasons why, even if this works to speed up program launch, I wouldn't bet on its being better (in terms of total user experience) than doing nothing at all. I certainly don't recommend the procedure I described; it's just the only way I could think of to a...

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Well, yes - AFAIK if you don't have a local copy of the package file for the currently-installed package version, you're doing it wrong. It should never happen by default as far as I'm aware, anyway.

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Well, I did think of one way to potentially automate it entirely, but it sounds like it would be inefficient and probably overkill. Essentially, it would be: * Identify the package name for the program you want to precache. (This is the only non-scripted step.) * Identify the package file for the cu...

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I'm not aware of a way to do this. The only approach I can think of offhand (based on the question as I understand it, anyway) would be to have a script that reads the necessary files automatically based on a manually-built-and-updated list, e.g. for file in \ "/path/to/mainbinary" \ &quo...

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I was interested to notice that on my way home last night (at around 23:00), the snow was beginning to stick on the roads to the point where I had to watch carefully to make sure I wasn't drifting out of the lane, but nothing was visibly sticking anywhere else yet. Just the opposite of what I'd have...

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That wouldn't be keyboard-accessible, would it? At least not in a "reliable, access it the same way no matter where you start out from" sense. (Plus, what I wanted to know about is what works on any Win8 system, without requiring advance preparation.) From the look of that Q&A thread, ...

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I'd be more inclined to consider it 6, unfortunately. My use-cases here are "how quick and easy is it to log out a public-area computer which someone left logged in?" and "how quick and easy is it to reboot or shut down a room full of 30 computers, one at a time?". XP took 4 or 5...

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It's been stated repeatedly that the only way to install applications on Windows RT is via the Microsoft app store. What about programs that don't need an install? If you have a compatible ARM executable from somewhere else, and you copy it to a Windows RT machine by whatever means ("Save As&qu...

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As someone who works in IT desktop support and management, I have one question about Windows 8 which I haven't seen anyone comment on yet. What's the minimalist keyboard logout/shutdown/reboot sequence like, by comparison to previous OS versions? On XP, it was 4 or 5 keystrokes: Win, U, (L OR (Home,...

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Avoid IT like the plague. Never take a job that will require you to be on-call and all IT positions will require you to be on-call. I'm afraid that's just not true. I'm in my second consecutive IT job, and I've never been on call. (I do answer the phone on a day off if my boss calls to ask about so...

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Hmm... I'm undecided about Diablo 3. Perhaps Torchlight 2 will be a better idea. Update: Just read that you can finish the main campaign in 7 hours if you hustle (and have 3 buddies) and saw some of the screenshots (consolitis?). That's sealed the case for me not turning over my hard earned cash. T...

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The game looks awesome, but the requirement of a internet connection is a deal-breaker. If and when people find a way to bypass that, I'll buy it once they stop patching it (I don't ever intend to play co-op or whatever the online options are for this game). Same here, except that I may not actuall...

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Yup, doing what you're trying to do has been made difficult on purpose. The currently logged in session effectively "owns" the desktop; allowing background processes from other users to arbitrarily open up new windows would be a rather large security hole! Not if it was restricted to the ...

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A bit of Googling indicates that you may be able to launch the remote process in the appropriate desktop session (rather than in its own, non-visible session) by the use of psexec on the remote machine: https://www.itefix.no/i2/node/10513 The discussion is somewhat out of order, but the suggestion d...

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