Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Computing/2017 November 10

= November 10 =

using two laptops in tandem
I have a HP laptop. The OS is Linux Ubuntu. I am doing some programming in C++. What I need is to have another, identical laptop to work alongside (in tandem) in such a way that the second laptop could be used by someone else who might hopefully help me to resolve a difficult problem with the code. How can it be done? Thanks, --AboutFace 22 (talk) 17:27, 10 November 2017 (UTC)

I want to give additional details as to what I need. I need both laptops be loaded with the same software, which is of course, trivial. I want the other person to open my C++ code in his laptop, which is again trivial. I want both of us to go down the code which is very long with my explaining the logic of it. Let's say this hypothetical friend will find a bug and makes a correction, I want my code in my laptop reflect that correction and if we do test runs I want the output std::cout to be reflected on both laptops. Thanks, --AboutFace 22 (talk) 17:57, 10 November 2017 (UTC)


 * Etherpad is a highly customizable Open Source online editor providing collaborative editing in really real-time.


 * http://etherpad.org/


 * https://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/


 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gobby


 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collaborative_real-time_editor


 * 110.22.20.252 (talk) 03:52, 11 November 2017 (UTC)

Thank you. It is very helpful. --AboutFace 22 (talk) 15:04, 11 November 2017 (UTC)
 * If you are comfortable with (X)Emacs's idiosyncrasies, then you can use  to open a window on a second machine. Both can then be used to simultaneously edit the same document. However, I've never got this to worth with XAuth. LongHairedFop (talk) 17:36, 11 November 2017 (UTC)


 * I thing You need a revision/version controlled editing software like Wikipedia haves it in the revision history to work from different computers on the same project. -- Hans Haase (有问题吗) 12:45, 14 November 2017 (UTC)

Who were the Dalton gang, and what did they do?
In Reflections on Trusting Trust by Ken Thompson, he makes reference to a group known as the "Dalton gang": I would like to criticize the press in its handling of the 'hackers,' the 414 gang, the Dalton gang, etc. The acts performed by these kids are vandalism at best and probably trespass and theft at worst.

We have an article on the Dalton Gang, but that article is about Old West Outlaws, not an 80s hacking group. My Google-fu is not helping me. 192.88.255.9 (talk) 17:50, 10 November 2017 (UTC)


 * The "Dalton Gang" was a couple 13 year olds (and possibly one older kid who was showing off some scripts he found) at Dalton School in New York. They got into a computer. The point is valid. They didn't "hack." They were what is now called "script kiddies." 209.149.113.5 (talk) 19:53, 10 November 2017 (UTC)