I disagree with the poster who said this can't be done bcause laptops meet different compromises. The PC104 spec is fairly ubiquitous in embedded systems, and has to meet similarly stringent limits.
I find the most frustrating thing about buying laptops (in volume) is the lack of compatibility of docking stations. I tried buying some for our firm on a 3 year renewal cycle, but it was intensely frustrating that people couldn't visit other offices, sit down at a touchdown point, and get going. My corporate masters didn't seem to even get that this was a problem as they changed preferred laptop suppliers every six months (sigh).
My point is this: for laptops and similar which don't have everything in all the time (like the Saint Song box reviewed on Ars Technica) its the external interface that matters and internal compromises are fairly inconsequential to getting compatibility across manufacturers.
And while we're at it I feel the same about the headpiece adapters on GSM mobiles. Foo!
Jeremy - The story on TNG seems to be that it is cleaning up and normalizing samba's networking code. I was wondering if any thought had gone into a fresh start on the config files? Over time they seem to have accumulated cruft, and it seems to be heading for more with IPv6 address parsing and per-domain options.
Cheers - Baz
PS thankyou for making my life so much easier (as a sysadmin for 300+ machines).
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I disagree with the poster who said this can't be done bcause laptops meet different compromises. The PC104 spec is fairly ubiquitous in embedded systems, and has to meet similarly stringent limits.
I find the most frustrating thing about buying laptops (in volume) is the lack of compatibility of docking stations. I tried buying some for our firm on a 3 year renewal cycle, but it was intensely frustrating that people couldn't visit other offices, sit down at a touchdown point, and get going. My corporate masters didn't seem to even get that this was a problem as they changed preferred laptop suppliers every six months (sigh).
My point is this: for laptops and similar which don't have everything in all the time (like the Saint Song box reviewed on Ars Technica) its the external interface that matters and internal compromises are fairly inconsequential to getting compatibility across manufacturers.
And while we're at it I feel the same about the headpiece adapters on GSM mobiles. Foo!
-Baz
Cheers - Baz
PS thankyou for making my life so much easier (as a sysadmin for 300+ machines).