As an owner of an HDTV that the MPAA is trying to make obsolete I am outraged. Remember this legislation effects consumer electronics as well. They are trying to implement DVI w/ HDCP encryption to new HDTV sets. They have already got the Sattelite and Cable companies to go along. They are even lobbying for encryption of over-the-air broadcasts! As of now there have been about 2.5million HDTV/HDTV ready sets that will be obsolete come fall. Current HDTVs will be able to recieve the encrypted content with a converter box but that box will downgrade the quality to normal TV. I have three words to say, "Class Action Lawsuite."
I administer over 500 lab machines as well. We use cheap Dell Optiplexes in our labs and replace 1/3 of them each year. The ones we replace we sell to the students for about $300 dollars. We have tried testing citrix and we did not like it. Instead we use a program called PCRdist (http://www.pyzzo.com) it is so simple to use, basicaly all you need is a network accessable drive (ie. Novell, samba, etc...) then the machines can refresh from the image on the server. We have it set to run on every logout.
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As an owner of an HDTV that the MPAA is trying to make obsolete I am outraged. Remember this legislation effects consumer electronics as well. They are trying to implement DVI w/ HDCP encryption to new HDTV sets. They have already got the Sattelite and Cable companies to go along. They are even lobbying for encryption of over-the-air broadcasts! As of now there have been about 2.5million HDTV/HDTV ready sets that will be obsolete come fall. Current HDTVs will be able to recieve the encrypted content with a converter box but that box will downgrade the quality to normal TV. I have three words to say, "Class Action Lawsuite."
I administer over 500 lab machines as well. We use cheap Dell Optiplexes in our labs and replace 1/3 of them each year. The ones we replace we sell to the students for about $300 dollars. We have tried testing citrix and we did not like it. Instead we use a program called PCRdist (http://www.pyzzo.com) it is so simple to use, basicaly all you need is a network accessable drive (ie. Novell, samba, etc...) then the machines can refresh from the image on the server. We have it set to run on every logout.