I had no idea that Lotus inflicted such a half-baked app on Apple users. Having the installer running in "Classic" mode reminds me of the time when all Lotus apps only came in 16-bit versions for Windows, when almost all corporates were using 32-bit Windows environments.
I'd hate to sound like a corporate thug - but you could try paying for some software that works both on Mac and Windows.
Lotus Notes can be installed on both Mac and Windows as a email/contacts/tasks/calendar client. There are programs out their that will sync Lotus Notes data with the PDA/phone/whatever of your choice. Lotus Domino (the Notes server) can be run on Windows 2000 Server or if you're short on cash Linux!
Like Apple's iCal, Lotus Notes is iCalendar compliant.
Go grab the latest Release Candidates from http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/down.nsf
The first minute of footage actually came from a smaller dish in Honeysuckle Creek (just south of Canberra). The rest of the coverage was handled by Parkes.
As an aside. The Americans decided to abandon the Honeysuckle station which was subsequently looted for anything from electronics to heat-resistant light bulbs. It's a pity the looters didn't decide to trash the rose garden the Americans planted. The roses have since gone completely beserk and has killed a lot of the native vegetation in the National Park.
Broadly speaking, it sounds like you have 3 options.
1. Get really long cables. Benefit is that it's cheap. The downside is you might get problems with attentuation of video and mouse signals depending on the distance the cables have to reach.
2. Embed a PC into the wall. There are plenty of companies out there who make really small PC's (and I don't mean laptops). Benefits are that you get dedicated processing power at each point and there are no problems with attentuation. UTP copper can go as far as 100 metres (not sure what that is in feet - I live in the real world) and fibre can go as far as 2000 metres. The downside is that this is a really expensive option.
3. Install a web-based terminal into the wall. These are even smaller than PC's and are generally cheaper. Sometimes they have an embedded OS such as Linux or WindowsCE. Others just send video and keyboard/mouse signal via the network. For your application you don't need raw processing power at each point - so why pay for it! I don't like to drop names but Compaq and Wise have terminals which cater for both religions - Microsoft and Unix. Both can be configured to just have the browser on screen at power-up. In my humble opinion, this is the best option for your application.
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I had no idea that Lotus inflicted such a half-baked app on Apple users. Having the installer running in "Classic" mode reminds me of the time when all Lotus apps only came in 16-bit versions for Windows, when almost all corporates were using 32-bit Windows environments.
I'd hate to sound like a corporate thug - but you could try paying for some software that works both on Mac and Windows.
Lotus Notes can be installed on both Mac and Windows as a email/contacts/tasks/calendar client. There are programs out their that will sync Lotus Notes data with the PDA/phone/whatever of your choice. Lotus Domino (the Notes server) can be run on Windows 2000 Server or if you're short on cash Linux!
Like Apple's iCal, Lotus Notes is iCalendar compliant.
Go grab the latest Release Candidates from http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/down.nsf
The first minute of footage actually came from a smaller dish in Honeysuckle Creek (just south of Canberra). The rest of the coverage was handled by Parkes. As an aside. The Americans decided to abandon the Honeysuckle station which was subsequently looted for anything from electronics to heat-resistant light bulbs. It's a pity the looters didn't decide to trash the rose garden the Americans planted. The roses have since gone completely beserk and has killed a lot of the native vegetation in the National Park.
Broadly speaking, it sounds like you have 3 options. 1. Get really long cables. Benefit is that it's cheap. The downside is you might get problems with attentuation of video and mouse signals depending on the distance the cables have to reach. 2. Embed a PC into the wall. There are plenty of companies out there who make really small PC's (and I don't mean laptops). Benefits are that you get dedicated processing power at each point and there are no problems with attentuation. UTP copper can go as far as 100 metres (not sure what that is in feet - I live in the real world) and fibre can go as far as 2000 metres. The downside is that this is a really expensive option. 3. Install a web-based terminal into the wall. These are even smaller than PC's and are generally cheaper. Sometimes they have an embedded OS such as Linux or WindowsCE. Others just send video and keyboard/mouse signal via the network. For your application you don't need raw processing power at each point - so why pay for it! I don't like to drop names but Compaq and Wise have terminals which cater for both religions - Microsoft and Unix. Both can be configured to just have the browser on screen at power-up. In my humble opinion, this is the best option for your application.