presumably they used "thin client" to indicate that its only a limited function box as it only does downloading, samba and router services. Infact now i put it like that its not even a client at all is it. And anyway thin clients are very felxible and can be made to have similar functionality to a desktop. The person who wrote the summary was definately ill informed. Hope that helped:)
apple v appleonly came up because apple computers were using their apple logo on the iTunes music store. Now you'll notice apple records is in the music industry and hence apple computers was treading on their turf. Same indusrty, hence the trademark suit.
yeah i know totally the wrong use of the term "thin client". I was expecting it to provide or use some sort of terminal server functionality. Now that would be pointless!
Multi head would also be what i reccomend, you get some cost savings and also more reliability.
Thin clients suck for student computr labs. When each student tries to log in at the same time the server can get really bogged down and the ones at my old college used to take about 5 mins to log in. Also if you develop a problem with any of your terminal servers, or for some reason there are netwrok issues the whole setup goes kaput. You don't just lose 1 machine, you lose 30. Thats very hard for normal people to understand.
on the plus side, however, thin clients are easy to manage and can be really pleasant to use when the server isn't under load.
check out rtorrent, its an ncurses bittorrent cient with support for downloading and seeding multiple torrents, has down/up rate limiting, a nifty fast resume feature and the ability to select which files within a torrent you want to download. Also has a "pure seeding" mode where it will just seed your torrents. Its pretty cool and runs nicely in screen. You can set up default settings in ~/.rtorrentrc and they have an example one in their wiki. The only thing i miss about azureus is safepeer and texting me when the torrents have finished.
i use neo office/j on my G3 iBook with 640MB RAM. It runs like i would expect it to run on a 4-5 year old machine. It's usable and i regularly have pages and neo office/j open at the same time to do work for my college. Open office also needs the JVM so dont moan!
and if a space doesnt work, the ASCII null character does. Hold ALT and type 255 on the num pad, used to be a good way to hide things as explorer couldnt read it. I miss the good old days.
to be honest i think this notion was also heavily backed by sun... from tfa:
Jim Hassell, managing director of Sun Microsystems Australia, argued that Linux was no loss to the Agility Alliance because it could use Solaris 10 instead of Linux rival Red Hat.
"If you test Red Hat against Solaris 10 against whatever else... we would say that Solaris 10 beats it hands down on functionality and everything else," said Hassell.
so yeah, with one hand sun loves the oss community, releasing SOLARIS under and OSS licence and begging for a community and with the other hand it slaps us all in the face by damning our operating system.
First of all you have to have the previous version of the software installed (called openMG jukebox of all things) before you can even run the updater. Then the updater removes OpenMG and installs sonic stage which STILL thinks you want it to be the one and oly music program on your computer, constantly trying t associate itself with mp3 files and the like. It still crashes (although not as much) and it is still a terrible program.
It really hinders your minidisk experience and i dread having to put new music on it.
a good example of transfer software done right is creative's ZEN drivers. The "nomad explorer" integrates with the explorer shell and you simply drag your music onto the device, you dont even have to install their jukebox software! On the down side the drivers themselves gave me the same error on 2 computers but i eventually cajoled them into working.
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presumably they used "thin client" to indicate that its only a limited function box as it only does downloading, samba and router services. Infact now i put it like that its not even a client at all is it. And anyway thin clients are very felxible and can be made to have similar functionality to a desktop. The person who wrote the summary was definately ill informed. Hope that helped :)
apple v appleonly came up because apple computers were using their apple logo on the iTunes music store. Now you'll notice apple records is in the music industry and hence apple computers was treading on their turf. Same indusrty, hence the trademark suit.
yeah i know
totally the wrong use of the term "thin client". I was expecting it to provide or use some sort of terminal server functionality. Now that would be pointless!
i would whole heartedly reccomend nildram as an ISP.
;)
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my friend uses them and he has an ace connection with low latency and low connection ratios.
their business boradband doesnt seem to have a limit (the 8Mb service) and tbh 512k^h^h^h^h 8Mb should be enough for anyone
http://broadband.nildram.net/products/pro/?is=hp-
Multi head would also be what i reccomend, you get some cost savings and also more reliability.
Thin clients suck for student computr labs. When each student tries to log in at the same time the server can get really bogged down and the ones at my old college used to take about 5 mins to log in. Also if you develop a problem with any of your terminal servers, or for some reason there are netwrok issues the whole setup goes kaput. You don't just lose 1 machine, you lose 30. Thats very hard for normal people to understand.
on the plus side, however, thin clients are easy to manage and can be really pleasant to use when the server isn't under load.
sound advice there, mate. I'd like to join you in the rtorrent fan club, exactly the thing i needed for linux.
check out rtorrent, its an ncurses bittorrent cient with support for downloading and seeding multiple torrents, has down/up rate limiting, a nifty fast resume feature and the ability to select which files within a torrent you want to download. Also has a "pure seeding" mode where it will just seed your torrents. Its pretty cool and runs nicely in screen. You can set up default settings in ~/.rtorrentrc and they have an example one in their wiki. The only thing i miss about azureus is safepeer and texting me when the torrents have finished.
you have to bear in mind, though, that maxathon isnt technically a replacement for IE, just a pretty shell within which IE runs.
bitter or umami... ;)
But I dont think they're that either
i use neo office/j on my G3 iBook with 640MB RAM. It runs like i would expect it to run on a 4-5 year old machine. It's usable and i regularly have pages and neo office/j open at the same time to do work for my college. Open office also needs the JVM so dont moan!
hehehe, subtle.
:P
i wonder if thats what the GP was getting at
mine was still set to false after the last time IDN was an issue. I dont use International Domains anyway so leaving this off suits me fine.
try ordering a copy from the UK, the seemingly only sane country to still be selling the original version. And you yanks call us brits prude!
Simple solution, Run the disk utility, create a disk image, set it to use encryption and format it.
then whenever you want to save sensitive data double click the disk image, enter your password, save your data into the disk image, then "eject" it.
Its as easy as pie and you get a nice portable encrypted file so your encrypted data can be easily put on a usb key and taken with you.
use the coral chache http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fsla shdot.org.nyud.net:8090
unless they want to play photoshop, i hear that ones really good on the mac platform ;)
EBCDIC pr0n, doesnt sound like my bag, but you woultdn have thought ASCII pr0n would have been much straighter.
meeee!!
;)
Today you will be oggling Roxanne
what i posted first now what do i win?
and if a space doesnt work, the ASCII null character does. Hold ALT and type 255 on the num pad, used to be a good way to hide things as explorer couldnt read it. I miss the good old days.
from tfa:
so yeah, with one hand sun loves the oss community, releasing SOLARIS under and OSS licence and begging for a community and with the other hand it slaps us all in the face by damning our operating system.
every company is there to look out for itself.
here in the UK we are charged $20-$25 for a new album, $30 or more if the album is older.
You yanks get everything cheap but still its too expensive for you...
http://www.glexcess.com/defaultn.asp
:P
gotta say yes to another excess
I have to say that it really isnt...
First of all you have to have the previous version of the software installed (called openMG jukebox of all things) before you can even run the updater. Then the updater removes OpenMG and installs sonic stage which STILL thinks you want it to be the one and oly music program on your computer, constantly trying t associate itself with mp3 files and the like. It still crashes (although not as much) and it is still a terrible program.
It really hinders your minidisk experience and i dread having to put new music on it.
a good example of transfer software done right is creative's ZEN drivers. The "nomad explorer" integrates with the explorer shell and you simply drag your music onto the device, you dont even have to install their jukebox software! On the down side the drivers themselves gave me the same error on 2 computers but i eventually cajoled them into working.
Backups are fun!(2)
(2)Do not eat backup