just a shot in the dark here, but can you just give a lower priority to those applications in order to keep the workstation usable while doing this work?
I can't recall the command line option off the top of my head but I know using Gtop, you right click the app, and pick renice, then set it to 1 instead of 0.
I won't need to. I don't rip music, I just download it, it's easier than messing with keeping stacks of CD's around...I hate clutter. I can't see not being able to save files and run from that hard drive, meaning I could put my music there from another machine on my network or the internet. and also download file sharing tools although I can't imagine they won't include NFS or SAMBA. as far as a thin client, it's just a matter of logging into my PC from the playstation, exporting the dislplay to the PS2 and then starting X. This would make the PS2 nothing but a remote terminal on my regular PC, without disrupting anything on that computer in the other room.
I'm thinking it'll make a great thin client for my TV set. plus, I'll keep my music on that HD and NFS it to my other systems. there is a digital audio output for connecting to the stereo, I'm hoping it'll be supported under Linux.
It would've been nice if the keyboard/mouse was a one piece combo unit with wireless and a universal remote built in to control the stereo. Running an Xsession over 100BaseT ethernet should be No problem.
it's going to be a nice way to get online and interact with TV shows that have live chat with the Picture-in-Picture on the TV set. Lookout Leo, I'm going to be on TechTV Live with a webcam on my PS2 under Linux, then I'll be REALLY COOL.
I am not a developer, but I do get lost when it comes to the windows registry... seems like there's stuff in there you're not supposed to know about.
Linux, however, with the/etc directory, seems to spell everything out in plain text.
Given nothing but a Copy of WindowsXP ($200) and a copy of Mandrake Linux(Free, or $30 with a nice book), it would seem to me that the ability to "look under the hood" on the Linux box would win lots of curious students over.
Add to that the lack of License restrictions, and the multiplatform nature of Linux, (MAC X86..and almost everything else) and MS Windows starts to look like a ball and chain.
MS does have the installed user base, but I'm confident that will not be an advantage for much longer.
and after all that _THEN_ there is the cost, before I found Linux I thought I wanted to be a MCSE, I got some books, and quickly learned that I'd need to purchase several different MS operating systems in order to follow the labs in the book. By contrast, I can learn how to administer Apache servers for FREE. I've not run an MS OS since, What a RipOff.
for the purpose of what we do, everything is run from the network. and on our service, VPN isn't actively hunted down or blocked, it's the people who are uploading over 500MB daily that will get looked into as possible violation of AUP.
by everything, I mean, 4 different connections to customer databases, 5 different web diagnostics tools, an aspect phone app, email, one remedy application, IRC chat, Virus scan, any documents are all stored on the corporate lan, nothing is on my desktop machine(even when I save to desktop, it really resides on the Corp Lan so if I work from another desk, there's my desktop). add to this whatever other websites I might be visiting at the time that route through the corporaate proxy and use internal DNS.
Beyond all that, we're moving our users to a hardware based VOIP (voice over IP)solution which also runs through the tunnel. This will save us the cost of providing a phone line to route the calls through. I'm not just logging in when I open Lookout to check mail.
Most customers that I talk to (the ones who call tech support) don't know much beyond email and webpages. these are the residentail "web surfers" I was talking about. While many VPN users will just use the VPN to get mail, this isn't the situation on our VPN connection. VPN creates a constant link from one machine to the other which has the network constantly sending to and fro, this creates more traffic than downloading a web page and then doing nothing while you read the artcle for 5 minutes.
As I mentioned, with the popularity of Multimedia online now this is changing. I can say that I personally don't listen to my own CD's anymore I just "grab a stream" of music off the web and that runs for hours everyday. I don't even bother to download music to play later or burn disks, I just stream it when I want it. For a residential user Like me, I'm sure my usage is above that of an average VPN user.
It's not disinformation, it's about the availablilty of music and movies online that has changed what used to be the greatest consumers of bandwidth.
I work tech support for a cable modem provider from my home. When the option to telecommute became available, Although I had a residential cable modem in my home, my employer provided a seperate "business" cable modem (same stuff, different account), as well as a business phone line,a workstation, a desk and chair.
Although uptime is not a regular issue, when I do need to call in for loss of connectivity, the business folks are harder to get ahold of than the residential folks. This is simply because the residential service has Hundreds of TSR's while the business folks end up having me leave a message and call me back. The business tech support people at least know wht a VPN is and can resolve issues quickly.
The main reason for the business account (in my lower level employee understanding)is the VPN connection which is against the AUP of the residential service. A VPN connection will use LOTS more bandwidth than a regular residentail web surfer.
with new file sharing apps and people who constantly share hundreds of files over thier residential connection, VPN bandwidth usage is not the big issue it used to be. Although lots of people run VPN over their residential line, larger usage comes from folks who keep a connection open to a file sharing network or run servers or host websites.
All in all, if I can't connect from home, I drive 20 minutes and work from the office but have only had to do this once in 2 years.
I may be partial, but, get a cable modem if you can, and use the phone line as a backup.
I wasn't really thinking along those lines but that's a good point. I'm guessing that a good profile could be made out of the types of artilce that you choose to see and the links you want displayed.
I mostly like the ads, and the others I don't really mind.
at least the ads are likely to be for Cool stuff, If I was on a slow connection, I'd consider subscribing just to speed things up by not downloading the ads, but I'm not. Plus, this way I'm sure to get updates about what's new at ThinkGeek.com.
As long as there aren't any ads about keeping my hair, growing my genitals, or getting rich working from home, I'll be OK with it.
look at all the options you have for desktops/windowmanagers... sure OSX has a nice one but it's a "one size fits all" deal,... Linux gives you choice.
beyond that just look at the thousands of apps available for Linux, how many Mac apps still need to run in classic mode?
AND there's MacOnLinux, letting you bring up "classic mode" on your Linux desktop, I don't know if MacOnLinux lets you run OSX inside it but I wouldn't doubt it.
in summary, Linux has all linux has PLUS all the apps Mac has, running under the Linux OS. sounds like a winner to me.
keep the os9 partition around for watching Quicktime video's and running mac apps but you don't dual boot, it just runs inside Linux.
I'm getting a mac soon, and will put this Mandrake 8.2 on it.
I happen to work for an ISp that supports outlook express as the official mail client. I can say as someone who has walked hundereds of people through setting up pop mail accounts and trying to recover corrupted folders and all kinds of other stuff, that OUTLOOK EXPRESS IS A PIECE OF CRAP
I swear they must try to make it suck to get people to buy the pro version (which my corp makes me use, and I hate the pro version even more.
really though, I find it easier to educate a customer what a pop and smtp server are, once they have that, they walk through the setup without any problems. furthermore, when the ISP mail goes down, all that forwarded mail goes down with it. I've heard too many times, I rely on this account to get my mail from my domain my business relies on it. these people would do better to just deal with the folks who host thier domain if it's so damn important.
if RR can't trace it back to the originating domain , and some of the mail is unwanted, they're not left with any other options. Try having your mail system leave more details in the header and that might solve the problem.
overall, why don't people just get a pop account for your domain? this forwarding stuff is for the ultra cheap who didn't want to shell out just a few extra bucks for pop service.
I thnk it'd be a neato thing to tinker with. Is this within the reach of the average geek with some piece-parts from the electronis store and a few old desktop computers?
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I've always heard there's a lot of "smart people" working at microsoft, if this is the case, they must also be disgruntled employees to let this slide in the middle of "security month"
teaching kids to be office workers is what they get mostly now, how to use a word processor or spreadsheet, I don't think this is the right approach. Nor do I think that all work should be done on a computer, however, the digital universe must be explored, just as any other creative endevor.
The internet can connect us in great ways, but at my childs school, if I want to see what the kids have been asigned, I still have to try and call the teacher on the phone or go to the school. sure I trust my kids to tell me(right!)...now picture a teacher finishing class and having to take 20 to 30 phone calls from parents asking about assignments due...it doesn't work for the teacher, they have much to do already. seems to me it'd be simple to publish a page with a list of assignments at the end of the day...but that's me, I had computers growing up.
colaboration, and creative exploring is what I want to see computers used for, as a medium to explore concepts not replace the physical universe.
creativity cn be applied in the digital world in new ways that aren't possible in the "real world"
compare creating 3d virtual models of an item with sculpting something out of clay or wood.
I had a hell of an easier time picking up programming and computers as a young child compared to trying to learn new things now.
What we need is 3rd graders who can use autocad to learn math and engineering concepts, or grade school age kids colaborating on someones thesis project, researching new ideas...then we'd have some creative juice flowing. How about 6th graders writing math or spelling games for 5th graders?
we need to do more than teach them how to be office workers, computers should be taught by a teacher who knows more that how to install the latest 'learing adventure' games. perhaps laptops on a roving computer lab cart could let one Computer-EXPERT-teacher move from class to class for 'LAB Time' instead of trying to sit a pc on every desk with teachers that don't know as much about how to be creative with a computer.
look at me share my opinion/view/insight all over the world via slashdot, that wasn't so hard to grasp now was it?
so when I see something cool, I can SHOW someone else instead of just describing it. also, with the video stream being captured to a more powerful machine, I could teach it to recognize stuff, so I could ask "where did I put my keys?" and it would respond by showing the last captured frame with my keys in the picture. Add some face recognition stuff and I don't have to remember names anymore, they'd just automatically show in my status bar when someone approaches.
it'd be nice to change the focus to make the image appear farther out so you could walk and have GPS sensors point out items of interest as you go....
I wonder how well this thing would capture video and audio from a USB cam and transmit it to a remote machine on a wireless lan?
you have always been under control of the evil giant, only now, they going ahead and covering thier tracks by making you agree to it. Unless they are stopped, it's only going to get worse.
Please people, think of this as 'Star Wars', MS is the 'Evil Empire' so join the 'Rebel Forces'.
USE THE SOURCE LUKE
We're keen on bringing peace to the universe and preserving freedom of this and future generations.
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Cappuccino GX1
* Features an Intel 810 motherboard, click here for full MB specs
* 1 Ghz Intel Pentium III processor
* 256MB 144-pin PC100 RAM
* 20 GB internal hard drive
* 8x DVD-ROM drive
* Built-in 10/100 base-T ethernet (RJ45)
* Internal 56K V.90 modem
* No operating system installed.
* All standard I/O ports built-in
* Dimensions: 5.8" x 6.1" x 2"
* Manufacturer Warranty: 1 year
when I don't like somthing, I'd like to curse and call it a pile of shit without my manager having "concerns" about my attitude. Some things I don't like, but mostly I find I need to "fly low and avoid the radar", less I be seen as a negative person.
Of course this negates any input I have positive or negative, which hurts the company in the long run.
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and just use WinXP to login to Linux.
or you could try DemoLinux, which will boot and run from the CDrom.
either solution may piss off your IT department though.
because you kow if you do, blender will live on no matter what.
Then you can let users develop the app and stick to making money writing Blender Books.
I like Blender, anyone got any suggestions for alternatives for 3D animation on Linux?
just a shot in the dark here, but can you just give a lower priority to those applications in order to keep the workstation usable while doing this work?
I can't recall the command line option off the top of my head but I know using Gtop, you right click the app, and pick renice, then set it to 1 instead of 0.
I won't need to. I don't rip music, I just download it, it's easier than messing with keeping stacks of CD's around...I hate clutter. I can't see not being able to save files and run from that hard drive, meaning I could put my music there from another machine on my network or the internet. and also download file sharing tools although I can't imagine they won't include NFS or SAMBA.
as far as a thin client, it's just a matter of logging into my PC from the playstation, exporting the dislplay to the PS2 and then starting X. This would make the PS2 nothing but a remote terminal on my regular PC, without disrupting anything on that computer in the other room.
I'm thinking it'll make a great thin client for my TV set. plus, I'll keep my music on that HD and NFS it to my other systems. there is a digital audio output for connecting to the stereo, I'm hoping it'll be supported under Linux.
It would've been nice if the keyboard/mouse was a one piece combo unit with wireless and a universal remote built in to control the stereo. Running an Xsession over 100BaseT ethernet should be No problem.
it's going to be a nice way to get online and interact with TV shows that have live chat with the Picture-in-Picture on the TV set. Lookout Leo, I'm going to be on TechTV Live with a webcam on my PS2 under Linux, then I'll be REALLY COOL.
I am not a developer, but I do get lost when it comes to the windows registry... seems like there's stuff in there you're not supposed to know about.
/etc directory, seems to spell everything out in plain text.
Linux, however, with the
Given nothing but a Copy of WindowsXP ($200) and a copy of Mandrake Linux(Free, or $30 with a nice book), it would seem to me that the ability to "look under the hood" on the Linux box would win lots of curious students over.
Add to that the lack of License restrictions, and the multiplatform nature of Linux, (MAC X86..and almost everything else) and MS Windows starts to look like a ball and chain.
MS does have the installed user base, but I'm confident that will not be an advantage for much longer.
and after all that _THEN_ there is the cost, before I found Linux I thought I wanted to be a MCSE, I got some books, and quickly learned that I'd need to purchase several different MS operating systems in order to follow the labs in the book. By contrast, I can learn how to administer Apache servers for FREE. I've not run an MS OS since, What a RipOff.
for the purpose of what we do, everything is run from the network. and on our service, VPN isn't actively hunted down or blocked, it's the people who are uploading over 500MB daily that will get looked into as possible violation of AUP.
by everything, I mean, 4 different connections to customer databases, 5 different web diagnostics tools, an aspect phone app, email, one remedy application, IRC chat, Virus scan, any documents are all stored on the corporate lan, nothing is on my desktop machine(even when I save to desktop, it really resides on the Corp Lan so if I work from another desk, there's my desktop). add to this whatever other websites I might be visiting at the time that route through the corporaate proxy and use internal DNS.
Beyond all that, we're moving our users to a hardware based VOIP (voice over IP)solution which also runs through the tunnel. This will save us the cost of providing a phone line to route the calls through. I'm not just logging in when I open Lookout to check mail.
Most customers that I talk to (the ones who call tech support) don't know much beyond email and webpages. these are the residentail "web surfers" I was talking about. While many VPN users will just use the VPN to get mail, this isn't the situation on our VPN connection.
VPN creates a constant link from one machine to the other which has the network constantly sending to and fro, this creates more traffic than downloading a web page and then doing nothing while you read the artcle for 5 minutes.
As I mentioned, with the popularity of Multimedia online now this is changing. I can say that I personally don't listen to my own CD's anymore I just "grab a stream" of music off the web and that runs for hours everyday. I don't even bother to download music to play later or burn disks, I just stream it when I want it. For a residential user Like me, I'm sure my usage is above that of an average VPN user.
It's not disinformation, it's about the availablilty of music and movies online that has changed what used to be the greatest consumers of bandwidth.
I work tech support for a cable modem provider from my home.
When the option to telecommute became available, Although I had a residential cable modem in my home, my employer provided a seperate "business" cable modem (same stuff, different account), as well as a business phone line,a workstation, a desk and chair.
Although uptime is not a regular issue, when I do need to call in for loss of connectivity, the business folks are harder to get ahold of than the residential folks. This is simply because the residential service has Hundreds of TSR's while the business folks end up having me leave a message and call me back. The business tech support people at least know wht a VPN is and can resolve issues quickly.
The main reason for the business account (in my lower level employee understanding)is the VPN connection which is against the AUP of the residential service. A VPN connection will use LOTS more bandwidth than a regular residentail web surfer.
with new file sharing apps and people who constantly share hundreds of files over thier residential connection, VPN bandwidth usage is not the big issue it used to be. Although lots of people run VPN over their residential line, larger usage comes from folks who keep a connection open to a file sharing network or run servers or host websites.
All in all, if I can't connect from home, I drive 20 minutes and work from the office but have only had to do this once in 2 years.
I may be partial, but, get a cable modem if you can, and use the phone line as a backup.
I wasn't really thinking along those lines but that's a good point. I'm guessing that a good profile could be made out of the types of artilce that you choose to see and the links you want displayed.
I mostly like the ads, and the others I don't really mind.
at least the ads are likely to be for Cool stuff, If I was on a slow connection, I'd consider subscribing just to speed things up by not downloading the ads, but I'm not. Plus, this way I'm sure to get updates about what's new at ThinkGeek.com.
As long as there aren't any ads about keeping my hair, growing my genitals, or getting rich working from home, I'll be OK with it.
where did you get the idea that anything running MS OS products SHOULD work well?
if they sue you for your opinion, you're protected by your rights to free speech.
don't speculate about future performance, and stay away from facts.
"I liked having Joe Blow as an employee"
vs
"Joe performed better than 50% of our employees"
the second is a claim you may have to prove if it came down to a lawsuit.
go ahead and have a court of law prove that you like or dislike someone.....
BTW, IANAL
look at all the options you have for desktops/windowmanagers... sure OSX has a nice one but it's a "one size fits all" deal,... Linux gives you choice.
beyond that just look at the thousands of apps available for Linux, how many Mac apps still need to run in classic mode?
AND there's MacOnLinux, letting you bring up "classic mode" on your Linux desktop, I don't know if MacOnLinux lets you run OSX inside it but I wouldn't doubt it.
in summary, Linux has all linux has PLUS all the apps Mac has, running under the Linux OS. sounds like a winner to me.
keep the os9 partition around for watching Quicktime video's and running mac apps but you don't dual boot, it just runs inside Linux.
I'm getting a mac soon, and will put this Mandrake 8.2 on it.
I happen to work for an ISp that supports outlook express as the official mail client. I can say as someone who has walked hundereds of people through setting up pop mail accounts and trying to recover corrupted folders and all kinds of other stuff, that
OUTLOOK EXPRESS IS A PIECE OF CRAP
I swear they must try to make it suck to get people to buy the pro version (which my corp makes me use, and I hate the pro version even more.
really though, I find it easier to educate a customer what a pop and smtp server are, once they have that, they walk through the setup without any problems. furthermore, when the ISP mail goes down, all that forwarded mail goes down with it. I've heard too many times, I rely on this account to get my mail from my domain my business relies on it. these people would do better to just deal with the folks who host thier domain if it's so damn important.
GOD I HATE OUTLOOK
if RR can't trace it back to the originating domain , and some of the mail is unwanted, they're not left with any other options. Try having your mail system leave more details in the header and that might solve the problem.
overall, why don't people just get a pop account for your domain? this forwarding stuff is for the ultra cheap who didn't want to shell out just a few extra bucks for pop service.
it's all about the AUP.
play it loud.
Linux is an illegal OS
I thnk it'd be a neato thing to tinker with. Is this within the reach of the average geek with some piece-parts from the electronis store and a few old desktop computers?
lets ask the all knowing GOOGLE
I've always heard there's a lot of "smart people" working at microsoft, if this is the case, they must also be disgruntled employees to let this slide in the middle of "security month"
teaching kids to be office workers is what they get mostly now, how to use a word processor or spreadsheet, I don't think this is the right approach. Nor do I think that all work should be done on a computer, however, the digital universe must be explored, just as any other creative endevor.
The internet can connect us in great ways, but at my childs school, if I want to see what the kids have been asigned, I still have to try and call the teacher on the phone or go to the school. sure I trust my kids to tell me(right!)...now picture a teacher finishing class and having to take 20 to 30 phone calls from parents asking about assignments due...it doesn't work for the teacher, they have much to do already. seems to me it'd be simple to publish a page with a list of assignments at the end of the day...but that's me, I had computers growing up.
colaboration, and creative exploring is what I want to see computers used for, as a medium to explore concepts not replace the physical universe.
creativity cn be applied in the digital world in new ways that aren't possible in the "real world"
compare creating 3d virtual models of an item with sculpting something out of clay or wood.
I had a hell of an easier time picking up programming and computers as a young child compared to trying to learn new things now.
What we need is 3rd graders who can use autocad to learn math and engineering concepts, or grade school age kids colaborating on someones thesis project, researching new ideas...then we'd have some creative juice flowing. How about 6th graders writing math or spelling games for 5th graders?
we need to do more than teach them how to be office workers, computers should be taught by a teacher who knows more that how to install the latest 'learing adventure' games. perhaps laptops on a roving computer lab cart could let one Computer-EXPERT-teacher move from class to class for 'LAB Time' instead of trying to sit a pc on every desk with teachers that don't know as much about how to be creative with a computer.
look at me share my opinion/view/insight all over the world via slashdot, that wasn't so hard to grasp now was it?
so when I see something cool, I can SHOW someone else instead of just describing it. also, with the video stream being captured to a more powerful machine, I could teach it to recognize stuff, so I could ask "where did I put my keys?" and it would respond by showing the last captured frame with my keys in the picture. Add some face recognition stuff and I don't have to remember names anymore, they'd just automatically show in my status bar when someone approaches.
it'd be nice to change the focus to make the image appear farther out so you could walk and have GPS sensors point out items of interest as you go....
I wonder how well this thing would capture video and audio from a USB cam and transmit it to a remote machine on a wireless lan?
you have always been under control of the evil giant, only now, they going ahead and covering thier tracks by making you agree to it. Unless they are stopped, it's only going to get worse.
Please people, think of this as 'Star Wars', MS is the 'Evil Empire' so join the 'Rebel Forces'.
USE THE SOURCE LUKE
We're keen on bringing peace to the universe and preserving freedom of this and future generations.
http://thinkgeek.com/stuff/computing/5868.shtml
Cappuccino GX-1 Mini-PC
$999
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This sweet mini PC is similar in size to a CD player and weighs only 1.9 pounds! It's powered by a 1Ghz Pentium III processor and 256 MB of ram to tackle most any application. The Cappuccino GX1 also includes all standard I/O ports such as parallel, serial, video, network and 2 USB ports. This is one hot little PC!
Cappuccino GX1
* Features an Intel 810 motherboard, click here for full MB specs
* 1 Ghz Intel Pentium III processor
* 256MB 144-pin PC100 RAM
* 20 GB internal hard drive
* 8x DVD-ROM drive
* Built-in 10/100 base-T ethernet (RJ45)
* Internal 56K V.90 modem
* No operating system installed.
* All standard I/O ports built-in
* Dimensions: 5.8" x 6.1" x 2"
* Manufacturer Warranty: 1 year
when I don't like somthing, I'd like to curse and call it a pile of shit without my manager having "concerns" about my attitude. Some things I don't like, but mostly I find I need to "fly low and avoid the radar", less I be seen as a negative person.
Of course this negates any input I have positive or negative, which hurts the company in the long run.