Just be sure to install the correct libraries (ldd your CAD's binary to see which libs), and look at your crappy CAD's startup script to see if it looks at/for RH specific/etc files. This isn't rocket science -- really!
But isn't this really about Apple's unannounced game console, the iFrag? Microsoft goes to Power architecture for xbox2, Apple goes to Intel or AMD for their new console? What a world...
We gained a TON of useable bandwidth by putting Firefox, Flash plugin, and the RealOne player on our terminal's USB flash sticks. Real and Flash never supported network sound anyway, so now remote users can waste internet time with sound-enabled Flash cartoons too. The downside is having to use nfs for the R/W home directory. The terminals still boot off the server.
100 users served by a quad-opteron, and displayed over a network? With a whole 160 meg RAM per user? Ooer. Now that must make it painful to even recalculate a spreadsheet or scroll through a complex Word document.
Is there no shared memory architecture under Windows? Really?
Here's an idea: your job, lame as it may be, is a support job, not an end by itself. IT in a corporation is one thing that doesn't generate _any_ money by itself. Its _only_ job is to support those who actually bring the R in ROI.
My job is to budget IT, and it is very expensive to pay well-trained people to have to run around fixing people's 'my computer keeps crashing!' issues and rolling software updates. That has been eliminated and IT is happy and the users are happy because their desktops don't crash.
Your idea of networked terminals seems to be keyed to the misnomer that a bitmap of the display is shot over the network from app server to screen. This is incorrect. The app shoots graphics primitives, not bitmaps over the network. We rarely pull more than 30,000 packets per second over the network of 63 users.
Does CUPS run under Windows? Mac's OSX runs CUPS and it is a snap to integrate within a Linux CUPS network, plus we gained PostScript functionality with CUPS.
Sorry to hear how badly Window's thin-client setup sucks. I have run Linux with Xterminals for years and say that scrolling a word processor document does not slow down anything, retouching high-res images under Gimp does not either. Most people sitting down at a terminal here wouldn't know it wasn't a full-blown computer.
There would be problems with certain webbie tasks, such as the Flash plugin playing an animated movie... I've clocked a Flash web movie generating 8,000 packets per second playing on an X terminal. But it is easy enough to install a read-only cheapo USB memory stick on each of the terminals for them to run their web browsers with all their Flash and Realmedia plugins locally. Many off-the-shelf thin clients already come with a local web browser installed.
100 users are served in luxury by a 4-way Opteron with about 16 to 24 gigs of memory. Add another for Tandem-style rollover cluster and that's all you need.
What costs more than hardware in a one-person, one-desktop setup is support for all those spindles of rotating memory, each containing its own operating system, each with anti-virus software and each containing its own userland software installs. Each properly licensed and upgraded and service-packed regularly.
All that time spent to perform some of the lamest tasks an IT department could possibly face. So, beside the cost of hardware, it is the lower cost of IT support and the elimination of so many dumb-ass tasks on IT's plate which makes terminals so much better
I thought that AMD is slated to ship their dual core chip first? Is this Intel rushing something to maket?
That's what is known in this business as a paper launch. There aren't really any available on the open market, but Intel gets a ton of ink by announcing now.
The real problem we're facing is overpopulation. If there were 3 billion human beings running around instead of 6.5 billion, how much pollution and demand for hydrocarbons would ther be?
Unfortunately, love & sex are too powerful to be dealt with in a sane fashion by humanity.
If you want serious stability, go with the stable branch. How hard is that? It's called stable for a reason.
This is just plain ridiculous. Kde 2.2.2 is NOT -- by FAR -- more 'stable' than KDE 3.4. Same with the new Gnome and just about everything that runs on X.
Go out and buy a new computer or motherboard and you'll discover that Debian is too old to run on it. What's the point of maintaining old versions of software for bugs and having Debian maintainers pestering developers to fix their old, obsolete versions?
Indeed. Email client only, and they say they won't open email attachments, and the IP number of the machines aren't being published. I think the only way to expolit a Mac is through the way the Finder handles things with an.app extension. Since by default, the extension names are hidden in the finder, one could perhaps, possibly name an email attachment filename.jpg.app and have some dumb user launch it.
If cable companies paid to put in their infrastructure, why should they be required to share it? Or, worded differently, did the govt. help pay to put in their system?
I think the point is being missed here. The cable companies provide the internet pipe. But they also insist on providing your IP number, an email account, lame little web space, and other crap at a price they dictate.
Cable companies hang their wires on poles which are located on public land. In some areas, even the poles themselves are owned by the government. There is no reasonable expectation that these companies should monopolize who I get my data services from, or what data I chose to send out from my connection. This is no different than if we were limited to whom we could talk to on our telephones.
I would be happy to pay the cable company for the amount of packets that go to and from my connection, but I don't want be forced to pay them for their crappy ISP 'service'.
I've been using it for years, starting with the old pre-Sun StarOffice. But I've also done without RPM for many years and I'm not sure I want to build RPM just to install OpenOffice 2.0. Koffice has gotten very nice.
A couple of days ago I looked at the price of palm oil in the Malaysian commodities market and it came out to $47+ per barrel. It has risen lately and is actually following the price of crude oil. Yet the local biodiesel station wants $3.25 per gallon.
Biodiesel doesn't have to be made from waste oil, but if its use takes off and becomes even a 10% replacement of petroleum, there will be huge market pressure for farmers to grow high-price the oil-producing crops which will in turn seriously impact the price of food and to lead to more tropical forests converted for cropland use.
Why not concentrate on GM's current hybrid timeline, or on vehicles that are actually useful and that normal people might buy, like GM's 2007 GMT-900 platform (Tahoe/Suburban/Yukon/Yukon XL/Escalade)
Are people still buying those sows ears? Making a 3-ton land yacht more economical is not the solution to what ails us.
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Just be sure to install the correct libraries (ldd your CAD's binary to see which libs), and look at your crappy CAD's startup script to see if it looks at/for RH specific /etc files. This isn't rocket science -- really!
Steevie Boi promises a LOT of things. If he loses his career at Apple, there's always a place for him as a department-store Santa!
But isn't this really about Apple's unannounced game console, the iFrag? Microsoft goes to Power architecture for xbox2, Apple goes to Intel or AMD for their new console? What a world...
WoW! Redhad diddles with their startup scripts. STOP THE PRESSES!!!!!!
We gained a TON of useable bandwidth by putting Firefox, Flash plugin, and the RealOne player on our terminal's USB flash sticks. Real and Flash never supported network sound anyway, so now remote users can waste internet time with sound-enabled Flash cartoons too. The downside is having to use nfs for the R/W home directory. The terminals still boot off the server.
Debian wouldn't have money problems if they released some software.
Is there no shared memory architecture under Windows? Really?
Here's an idea: your job, lame as it may be, is a support job, not an end by itself. IT in a corporation is one thing that doesn't generate _any_ money by itself. Its _only_ job is to support those who actually bring the R in ROI.
My job is to budget IT, and it is very expensive to pay well-trained people to have to run around fixing people's 'my computer keeps crashing!' issues and rolling software updates. That has been eliminated and IT is happy and the users are happy because their desktops don't crash.
Your idea of networked terminals seems to be keyed to the misnomer that a bitmap of the display is shot over the network from app server to screen. This is incorrect. The app shoots graphics primitives, not bitmaps over the network. We rarely pull more than 30,000 packets per second over the network of 63 users.
Does CUPS run under Windows? Mac's OSX runs CUPS and it is a snap to integrate within a Linux CUPS network, plus we gained PostScript functionality with CUPS.
There would be problems with certain webbie tasks, such as the Flash plugin playing an animated movie... I've clocked a Flash web movie generating 8,000 packets per second playing on an X terminal. But it is easy enough to install a read-only cheapo USB memory stick on each of the terminals for them to run their web browsers with all their Flash and Realmedia plugins locally. Many off-the-shelf thin clients already come with a local web browser installed.
What costs more than hardware in a one-person, one-desktop setup is support for all those spindles of rotating memory, each containing its own operating system, each with anti-virus software and each containing its own userland software installs. Each properly licensed and upgraded and service-packed regularly.
All that time spent to perform some of the lamest tasks an IT department could possibly face. So, beside the cost of hardware, it is the lower cost of IT support and the elimination of so many dumb-ass tasks on IT's plate which makes terminals so much better
Mature markets tend to monopolization. I wonder what will happen to poor olf Freehand. It has been tossed around from company to company many times.
That's what is known in this business as a paper launch. There aren't really any available on the open market, but Intel gets a ton of ink by announcing now.
Unfortunately, love & sex are too powerful to be dealt with in a sane fashion by humanity.
This is just plain ridiculous. Kde 2.2.2 is NOT -- by FAR -- more 'stable' than KDE 3.4. Same with the new Gnome and just about everything that runs on X.
Go out and buy a new computer or motherboard and you'll discover that Debian is too old to run on it. What's the point of maintaining old versions of software for bugs and having Debian maintainers pestering developers to fix their old, obsolete versions?
I think they should buy Bang+Olufsen. It would be a great fit and they wouldn't need to build the rest of the 'media center' parts from scratch.
Indeed. Email client only, and they say they won't open email attachments, and the IP number of the machines aren't being published. I think the only way to expolit a Mac is through the way the Finder handles things with an .app extension. Since by default, the extension names are hidden in the finder, one could perhaps, possibly name an email attachment filename.jpg.app and have some dumb user launch it.
If cable companies paid to put in their infrastructure, why should they be required to share it? Or, worded differently, did the govt. help pay to put in their system?
I think the point is being missed here. The cable companies provide the internet pipe. But they also insist on providing your IP number, an email account, lame little web space, and other crap at a price they dictate.
Cable companies hang their wires on poles which are located on public land. In some areas, even the poles themselves are owned by the government. There is no reasonable expectation that these companies should monopolize who I get my data services from, or what data I chose to send out from my connection. This is no different than if we were limited to whom we could talk to on our telephones.
I would be happy to pay the cable company for the amount of packets that go to and from my connection, but I don't want be forced to pay them for their crappy ISP 'service'.
I've been using it for years, starting with the old pre-Sun StarOffice. But I've also done without RPM for many years and I'm not sure I want to build RPM just to install OpenOffice 2.0. Koffice has gotten very nice.
To produce enough nuclear power to equal the power we currently get from fossil fuels, you would have to build 10,000 of the largest possible nuclear power plants.
Biodiesel doesn't have to be made from waste oil, but if its use takes off and becomes even a 10% replacement of petroleum, there will be huge market pressure for farmers to grow high-price the oil-producing crops which will in turn seriously impact the price of food and to lead to more tropical forests converted for cropland use.
I wonder what would be worse: Peak Oil or GW Bush and his Congress coming up with a 'plan' to deal with Peak Oil?
Maybe America just needs to catch up
BC only has a population of 4 million. Pray you don't 'catch up' with California population.
Nuclear is also a feel-good crock of BS. There is no panacea, no real plan B.
Are people still buying those sows ears? Making a 3-ton land yacht more economical is not the solution to what ails us.