Actually, it doesn't take much time to recover space. After you're done restoring via partimage, boot startx and use QTparted to shrink to minimum and then expand to full size.
Just note if going from small big, first size to 2GB then unlimited.
I just bought 15 old compaqs at $100 each. Comes with 17" monitor, ethernet, 133 MHz, 128 MB RAM, 3GB Hdd. I'm taking out the hdd and using them as diskless thin clients. Not the smallest for formfactor, but the school I'm building the network for is going completely paperless.
'One concern is the ability in future years to access documents in by then obsoleted file formats. Office 20002 no longer natively supports the ability to read ten year old Office 4.0 documents."
18000 years and we can't read those files? That's not just Microsoft's fault, is it?
"With the Windows License (EULA) is there any cost benefit in using Linux as a thin client? We evaluated Citrix and discovered the opposite."
Well, let's see. I just built a complete K12 LTSP project for a school. The clients, with 17" monitors, were $60 each (20 clients) ($1200). THe server is a dual AMD 2400+ with 120G/1G. ($1000). And a 36-port switch for $150. So total USD is under $2,500 for 21 user seats running at 2400+ speed.
Windows was never an option.
"$100 a week is a bit too low (within the US and most Western countries, at least)"
I disagree. I play with stuff all the timel. I usually don't care too much about what it is I'm playing with (gentoo, hardware, etc). If I was provided direction and paid $100 a week or a video card or RAM, I think it would be well worth it!
Um... how about solar?
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I was watching Discovery the other day. A ten square mile facility of solar panels in the Nev Desert would power all of the US. Takes away the Nuclear polution, uses existing technology, and would all for easy change of Voltage since it comes out DC.
The other option is a modded XBox for about 200 with chip. Case included!
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But you CAN get stuff done. For instance, I first emerge Xfree and icewm with "-qt -gnome -kde" and it only takes a few hours, during which time I have lynx at my disposal, nano or vi (short compiles). Once Ice is up, I emerge phoenix-bin for the binary and I have a fully functioning GUI with web.
And 2 days of USING your computer, I'm assuming that means you never sleep, you don't work, and you just sit there. I tend let it do the nasty compiling in the background of my LIFE. And it's still functional.
As far as paying prices... um... oh yeah GRP. Full binary install, set your flag, nice -10 recompile in the back ground while still working with what you need.
B/R,
KJ
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I'll take them all. I've started a NPO that does a lot of LTSP and focuses on and educational distro. Email me at: my /. login (at) yahoo DOT com
Actually, it doesn't take much time to recover space. After you're done restoring via partimage, boot startx and use QTparted to shrink to minimum and then expand to full size.
Just note if going from small big, first size to 2GB then unlimited.
I made $5 betting this one guy in phyics class that water didnt conduct electricity.
I'm glad to see educational institutions are still at an all time high.
Hmmm, You make the statement:
And all absolute statements are wrong.
So is your statement incorrect? For it to be correct, it would have to be absolute, which is the very idea you refute.
I think instead, it may be that the absolute exists, but we have a hard time agreeing on our choice to believe it or not.
I just bought 15 old compaqs at $100 each. Comes with 17" monitor, ethernet, 133 MHz, 128 MB RAM, 3GB Hdd. I'm taking out the hdd and using them as diskless thin clients. Not the smallest for formfactor, but the school I'm building the network for is going completely paperless.
KJ
'One concern is the ability in future years to access documents in by then obsoleted file formats. Office 20002 no longer natively supports the ability to read ten year old Office 4.0 documents."
18000 years and we can't read those files? That's not just Microsoft's fault, is it?
"With the Windows License (EULA) is there any cost benefit in using Linux as a thin client? We evaluated Citrix and discovered the opposite." Well, let's see. I just built a complete K12 LTSP project for a school. The clients, with 17" monitors, were $60 each (20 clients) ($1200). THe server is a dual AMD 2400+ with 120G/1G. ($1000). And a 36-port switch for $150. So total USD is under $2,500 for 21 user seats running at 2400+ speed. Windows was never an option.
"$100 a week is a bit too low (within the US and most Western countries, at least)" I disagree. I play with stuff all the timel. I usually don't care too much about what it is I'm playing with (gentoo, hardware, etc). If I was provided direction and paid $100 a week or a video card or RAM, I think it would be well worth it!
I was watching Discovery the other day. A ten square mile facility of solar panels in the Nev Desert would power all of the US. Takes away the Nuclear polution, uses existing technology, and would all for easy change of Voltage since it comes out DC.
That TiVo thing....
http://freevo.sourceforge.net/
The other option is a modded XBox for about 200 with chip. Case included!
But you CAN get stuff done. For instance, I first emerge Xfree and icewm with "-qt -gnome -kde" and it only takes a few hours, during which time I have lynx at my disposal, nano or vi (short compiles). Once Ice is up, I emerge phoenix-bin for the binary and I have a fully functioning GUI with web. And 2 days of USING your computer, I'm assuming that means you never sleep, you don't work, and you just sit there. I tend let it do the nasty compiling in the background of my LIFE. And it's still functional. As far as paying prices... um... oh yeah GRP. Full binary install, set your flag, nice -10 recompile in the back ground while still working with what you need. B/R, KJ