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I'm at a friend's place. I start up Word to write down some text. I hate how everything is configured, I can't find anything. So I choose 'online preferences', enter my password and user name, and everything jumps into place, like I'm used to it. When I'm done, I reset it to how it was.
Emacs users
have been doing this of course, by carrying their macros and config-files with them.
Baked, methinks
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Configured the same whever you log in from. [DrCurry, Sep 06 2007]
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Everyone should simply conform to a well thought out set of default preferences, just like vi users. |
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Oh, and for real emergencies:
stty erase ^H
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I've a U3 flash drive with Open Office on it, so I can say that yes, having your preferences available is a good thing. |
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Microsoft does all have a way to save all your Office settings & preferences, e.g. for when you get a new computer. It's Start | All Programs | Microsoft Office | Microsoft Office Tools | Save My Settings Wizard. You do this and a file with extension .msw or something gets saved on the desktop. Possibly, you could set up a new user profile on your friend's computer and apply these settings (go to the same place to import Office settings from a file and then point it to this file) and it restores the Office settings. Hopefully this would not disturb settings for other user profiles on the same machine. |
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Or, your friend could first save his/her settings and then reapply them after you. |
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But for the main Windows settings, there's nothing you can transport and you're stuck with whatever horrible color/interface theme your friend is using. |
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Given that Google Docs works this way, I think the problem is simply that you're using the wrong program. |
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No, actually, I think there's an important distinction here. "Cloud computing", where google already is and Microsoft is headed, hosts the application centrally and basically implements it on top of the browser. |
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As mainstream everyday tools, that's doomed, because it's slow, depends on the browser and bandwidth to function, and browsers always suck, and bandwidth mostly sucks. |
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*This* is a much more lightweight, and more easily implemented, suggestion that keeps the hard, detailed stuff on the computer, where it belongs, and just centralizes the small configuration file. |
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"more easily implemented" - clearly not much experience with Microsoft Office products there... ;) |
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I said MS Word as an example. In fact I meant Word/Excel/Photoshop/Firefox or any desktop app, or the desktop itself. |
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Ah. Then what you're after, in geek speak, is a roaming desktop profile, commonplace (if not exactly error free) on corporate networks, used to control access to applications as well as provide consistent desktop environments and settings to given users. |
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Roaming profiles can access the server over a VLAN, which will give you what you need, but is, as with most things to do with Windows networking, ridiculously complicated to set up and administer. |
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Citrix servers will also give you roaming profiles, but there you're turning the PC into a client accessing software running on the remote server. |
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