I used the K12LTSP project with great success at a school too. It is a very nice setup. I highly recommend that you remove disks from the client machines because the whole lab will get a lot quieter. It's amazing how loud hard drives are. I used a 1.2GHz server with 1GB RAM to run 20 terminals, and it was very snappy, even running OOo (this was about three-four years ago). A 100Mbit network is crucial.
Note that like most mobsters, W's friends have nicknames. And yes, I know none of these people have been convicted for anything, but there's still time.
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Yes, most of the/. community prefers a thick client. But Joe consumer doesn't know how to administer one, and that's who this would be targeted at. I'd steer clear of it myself too because of the privacy issues.
If they could offer the thin client for around $100, I'd be awfully tempted to point it out to the next friend or relative who asks me to clean the viruses off their PC. Isn't that about what the Geek Squad charges? With any luck, I'd never get bugged about an Outlook problem again.
Another reason this makes sense from a Google/Sun stand-point is because it cuts Microsoft/Dell/HP/Intuit and a host of others out of the picture.
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That's what I think they're doing. It explains the data-center-in-a-shipping-container phenom. I also think that's why they're partnering with Sun - Sun will make the thin clients.
They'll make them cheap enough (or subsidize them). It's a compelling set up. Consumer Joe buys a thin client for $100, plugs it into his broadband connection and connects to apps running on a terminal server in the shipping container nearest his home. For less than the price of Vista or a new PC, he satisfies all his computing needs. He never has to install any software. He never has to worry about viruses. The terminal server is maintained by professional sysadmins. The heavy lifting is done in the shipping container, so the thin client is relatively "future proof". All the client ever has to do is run an X server, and that requires a fairly fixed set of resources.
The only thing I'd worry about is privacy. Maybe they'll let Joe use a thumb drive to store his data. Or maybe Joe doesn't care about his privacy. Google then has control of the desktop, so ads are not limited to the web browser. We'd better hope they stick to the "Do no evil" thing.
I think "Quetzals" would score 374 points if it were played in the right place (doubling the Z and tripling the word twice). The Z in quetzals gets doubled instead of the X in quixotry. But what are the odds of coming up with all the letters you'd need for that, and someone opening the two triple word scores with the right letter in the right place? Quixotry will prolly hold the record for a while.
Yeah, but then the only thing the people to whom he had tried to license it would have to do is stonewall until he gave up - then swoop in and use the technology. After all - it's "fair game."
No, and I don't think that would be a good thing either. A few years back some guy invented a device that would detect when a table saw's blade was cutting something other than wood - such as a finger (or a hot dog in the demo).
He was not equipped to go into the business of making table saws and having to compete with the likes of Delta or Rigid, so he decided to try to license the patents to them. But they wouldn't bite, so he finally did have to go into the manufacturing business himself. Should he have been refused a patent? I don't think so.
If you introduce your product to the market before a patent is issued, aren't you opening yourself up to infringement? I think the usual path is to develop the product, patent it, and then either build and sell it, or license it out to someone else who can do that.
They're just now adding the word "codec" to the dictionary? I don't know when it was introduced into the vernacular, but I first heard it in the early 80's. I'm sure it goes back a lot farther than that.
Lessee, Bubba's monitoring the border cam, and this one has some hot nekkid action going on. Which one is Bubba gonna watch?
Another way to thwart this plan would be for migrant "sympathizers" to be constantly calling in false alarms.
Having the public monitor border cams is truly an idiotic plan.
I always look for the "Printer Friendly" link when I run into an article like that. It generally renders the whole article as one continuous chunk, but it doesn't print it. That's a tip kids. Write it down.
BOTH of those comments are bad. If a person knows relatively little about programming, he shouldn't be in a position to modify your code. If they don't know what an "if" statement does, they have no business mucking around in my code anyhow.
Comments should concentrate on "why" not on "what." A machine can figure out "what," so a programmer should be able to do that too (eventually). No machine has a clue as to "why" though.
Any time I'm reading through my code and I can't remember why I did something, it's a red flag - that needs a comment. If the code doesn't look like it's needed, but it really is, you need to put in a comment explaining why it's there.
"What" comments should be reserved for the top of a function or largish body of code.
For nearly a decade, Moglen has been the chief legal officer at the Free Software Foundation, in charge of defending the General Public License, a subversive bit of lawyering that turns property law on its head by prohibiting the users of open-source software from charging money for it.
The GPL does not prohibit the sale of OSS - it prohibits hiding the source code from whomever the binaries are distributed to.
Looks like someone forgot to check at least one fact...
Seriously though, Linux used to be known to run on anything, and now i dont think it will run on these old Dell 266's we got at school. We have about 20 of them and they were donated. I want to shoot the idiot who accepted them.
They'd be perfect as thin clients for a K12LTSP server. For that you need one decent machine to use as a server. It's a LOT easier than administering 20 stand-alone boxes.
Last time I checked, gcc was written in C. If this were ever made to work, it would not be inconceivable that the visual designer program could be re-written using the visual designer program.
Can they really write you a ticket if they know that your vehicle was speeding, but they don't know who was driving it?
Apparently they can. Gene Weingarten wrote an amusing
piece in the Washington Post last week that describes his failed attempt to get out of just such a predicament using the defense you have suggested. It didn't work.
You mean Hippocrates as in the Hippocratic oath? Part of which reads:
I will follow that system or regimen which, according to my ability and judgement, I consider for the benefit of my patients, and abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous.
I don't think Microsoft could ever be credibly accused of being a bunch of hippocrites.
I read this tip in AAA magazine several years ago, and adopted the practice. It makes a huge difference. IIRC, the article indicated that this wouldn't eliminate the blind spot, but it would make it so small you couldn't hide a vehicle in it.
Lately though, the auto industry has adopted an alternate tactic - instead of making the blind spots too small to hide a vehicle in, make the vehicles too big to hide in the blind spots.
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These are the sort of rules up with which we shall not put! (Apologies to Churchill.)
I used the K12LTSP project with great success at a school too. It is a very nice setup. I highly recommend that you remove disks from the client machines because the whole lab will get a lot quieter. It's amazing how loud hard drives are. I used a 1.2GHz server with 1GB RAM to run 20 terminals, and it was very snappy, even running OOo (this was about three-four years ago). A 100Mbit network is crucial.
- Lewis "Scooter" Libby
- Donald "Rummy" Rumsfeld
- Richard "Dick" Cheney
Note that like most mobsters, W's friends have nicknames. And yes, I know none of these people have been convicted for anything, but there's still time.If they could offer the thin client for around $100, I'd be awfully tempted to point it out to the next friend or relative who asks me to clean the viruses off their PC. Isn't that about what the Geek Squad charges? With any luck, I'd never get bugged about an Outlook problem again.
Another reason this makes sense from a Google/Sun stand-point is because it cuts Microsoft/Dell/HP/Intuit and a host of others out of the picture.
They'll make them cheap enough (or subsidize them). It's a compelling set up. Consumer Joe buys a thin client for $100, plugs it into his broadband connection and connects to apps running on a terminal server in the shipping container nearest his home. For less than the price of Vista or a new PC, he satisfies all his computing needs. He never has to install any software. He never has to worry about viruses. The terminal server is maintained by professional sysadmins. The heavy lifting is done in the shipping container, so the thin client is relatively "future proof". All the client ever has to do is run an X server, and that requires a fairly fixed set of resources.
The only thing I'd worry about is privacy. Maybe they'll let Joe use a thumb drive to store his data. Or maybe Joe doesn't care about his privacy. Google then has control of the desktop, so ads are not limited to the web browser. We'd better hope they stick to the "Do no evil" thing.
I think "Quetzals" would score 374 points if it were played in the right place (doubling the Z and tripling the word twice). The Z in quetzals gets doubled instead of the X in quixotry. But what are the odds of coming up with all the letters you'd need for that, and someone opening the two triple word scores with the right letter in the right place? Quixotry will prolly hold the record for a while.
If a family member asked to borrow my toothpaste, I think I'd rather just give it to them instead. I don't want it back when they're done with it.
Yeah, but then the only thing the people to whom he had tried to license it would have to do is stonewall until he gave up - then swoop in and use the technology. After all - it's "fair game."
He was not equipped to go into the business of making table saws and having to compete with the likes of Delta or Rigid, so he decided to try to license the patents to them. But they wouldn't bite, so he finally did have to go into the manufacturing business himself. Should he have been refused a patent? I don't think so.
If you introduce your product to the market before a patent is issued, aren't you opening yourself up to infringement? I think the usual path is to develop the product, patent it, and then either build and sell it, or license it out to someone else who can do that.
Maybe they'll add "modem" next.
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Lessee, Bubba's monitoring the border cam, and this one has some hot nekkid action going on. Which one is Bubba gonna watch? Another way to thwart this plan would be for migrant "sympathizers" to be constantly calling in false alarms. Having the public monitor border cams is truly an idiotic plan.
I always look for the "Printer Friendly" link when I run into an article like that. It generally renders the whole article as one continuous chunk, but it doesn't print it. That's a tip kids. Write it down.
Clearly, Jolley is not the only legislator who could be described as "R-Edmond".
Comments should concentrate on "why" not on "what." A machine can figure out "what," so a programmer should be able to do that too (eventually). No machine has a clue as to "why" though.
Any time I'm reading through my code and I can't remember why I did something, it's a red flag - that needs a comment. If the code doesn't look like it's needed, but it really is, you need to put in a comment explaining why it's there.
"What" comments should be reserved for the top of a function or largish body of code.
The GPL does not prohibit the sale of OSS - it prohibits hiding the source code from whomever the binaries are distributed to.
Looks like someone forgot to check at least one fact...
But how do you get the knife away from the shark?
I think it'd be cool to have a deck of playing cards featuring Open Source Heros. Like the deck the U.S. made featuring Saddam et al.
Or Koffin.
They'd be perfect as thin clients for a K12LTSP server. For that you need one decent machine to use as a server. It's a LOT easier than administering 20 stand-alone boxes.
Last time I checked, gcc was written in C. If this were ever made to work, it would not be inconceivable that the visual designer program could be re-written using the visual designer program.
I hope IBM delivers the code to SCO in the form of a truckload of paper printed in a greek font.
Apparently they can. Gene Weingarten wrote an amusing piece in the Washington Post last week that describes his failed attempt to get out of just such a predicament using the defense you have suggested. It didn't work.
You mean Hippocrates as in the Hippocratic oath? Part of which reads:
I will follow that system or regimen which, according to my ability and judgement, I consider for the benefit of my patients, and abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous.
I don't think Microsoft could ever be credibly accused of being a bunch of hippocrites.
Lately though, the auto industry has adopted an alternate tactic - instead of making the blind spots too small to hide a vehicle in, make the vehicles too big to hide in the blind spots.