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Sun Discovers Dumb Terminals
Yahoo has a story about how Sun is practicing a sort of floating workforce - many employees have no permanent desks, they just come in and log on to a dumb terminal, err, thin client. Besides being a sneaky way to encourage employees to arrive ever earlier at work, it probably is cheaper to run the business off a few large Sun servers - at least for Sun.
I dunno about everyone else but i LIKE it when my workstation breaks down. At my high school that i go to we run MS Visual C++ 6.0 on some win98 boxes... not pretty. But despite this i would go crazy is they didn't crash on me. First of all i get a nice time to step back and defrag my mind during the long ass reboot, and second if i was working for 8 hours straight like yoru supposed to I would go nuts. If every couple of hours somehting is wrong and it takes me a half an hour to fix it thats fun time for me. I enjoy messing with computers and it gives me a quick break. :) am i alone?
unzip; strip; touch; finger; mount; fsck; more; yes; unmount; sleep
No big fucking deal. Everyone pretty much chooses the same general area everyday. It is not a fight to get to THE best desk first.
I don't really like the centralized shit, they can watch stuff too easily.
On a side note:
Sun also has its own word processing and office suite, called Star Office, which it has begun selling, instead of it giving away, in a sign of maturity for the Microsoft Office rival.
Explain to me how selling a piece of software is "maturity". Idiots.