Your main reason for the thin-client push seems to be the software administration ease. Do it this way:
Create an image for each different hardware combination. Hopefully you don't have that many different combinations. Free imaging software exists for this task - see here.
When creating these images, lock down the machine as much as you can before image creation. For windows, this means file permissions and registry permissions. Look at Microsoft's Zero-Administration Kit. Also look at customization kits for Office and IE - these will also allow you to lock the machine down at a fine-grained level. This will keep people from screwing things up! The more time you spend fine-tuning your lockdowns the less time you'll have to spend re-imaging machines.
These organizations didn't even exist a hundred and fifty years ago, and somehow we still had art and music.
That's because back then musicians were in full control of their work. If they didn't play it, you didn't hear it.
As a professional musician I'm most afraid that the recording industry, coupled with piracy and general lack of quality music being produced will eliminate the possibility of professional musicians making a living being musicians. We'll all have to suffer listening to only amateurs or whatever no-talent boy band the industry decides is the "next big thing".
I pay some of my bills through playing bassoon for the Spokane, WA Symphony.
As soon as people want to "share" their homes, food and livelihoods with me I'll begin freely "sharing" whatever recordings I make. Heck if we get enough people maybe the whole orchestra will start giving it's hard work away.
I give my complimentary concert tickets to friends so that they may experience art music for free with the hope that they will become regular attendees. This isn't the same as stealing music since these tickets are mine to **freely** give away. I would never copy a CD hoping that someone would go out and buy the same CD - rather I'd encourage them to attend a live performance of the work as a "trial", or just go ahead and buy the CD. They'll most likely end up liking the music anyway.
PS - I do write software and give it away (LPRng for Cygwin), and participate in the OpenBSD project through hardware donations and bug fixes.
quantum cryptography + one time cipher = uncrackable
one time cipher + shared secrets = uncrackable
AFAIK, these are the only two that are uncrackable. the latter is impractical because of the necessity of a large quantity of pre-shared random ciphers, and the former due to implementation (but not for long it seems).
In a typical capiltalist world, businesses are kept in check by the market and the government, and can't become monopolies. How do you believe Microsoft surpassed thse checks?
Go search ebay for '486', 'P100', 'ne2k', 'ether16', or 'kingston ethernet' and tell me that the price couldn't be comparable. it's not like you even need a monitor or keyboard once the thing is set up.
plus you get the added benefit of actually *learning* something about networking, rather than blindly following plug-and-play setups.
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Your main reason for the thin-client push seems to be the software administration ease. Do it this way:
Create an image for each different hardware combination. Hopefully you don't have that many different combinations. Free imaging software exists for this task - see here.
When creating these images, lock down the machine as much as you can before image creation. For windows, this means file permissions and registry permissions. Look at Microsoft's Zero-Administration Kit. Also look at customization kits for Office and IE - these will also allow you to lock the machine down at a fine-grained level. This will keep people from screwing things up! The more time you spend fine-tuning your lockdowns the less time you'll have to spend re-imaging machines.
Good luck!
These organizations didn't even exist a hundred and fifty years ago, and somehow we still had art and music.
That's because back then musicians were in full control of their work. If they didn't play it, you didn't hear it.
As a professional musician I'm most afraid that the recording industry, coupled with piracy and general lack of quality music being produced will eliminate the possibility of professional musicians making a living being musicians. We'll all have to suffer listening to only amateurs or whatever no-talent boy band the industry decides is the "next big thing".
I pay some of my bills through playing bassoon for the Spokane, WA Symphony.
As soon as people want to "share" their homes, food and livelihoods with me I'll begin freely "sharing" whatever recordings I make. Heck if we get enough people maybe the whole orchestra will start giving it's hard work away.
I give my complimentary concert tickets to friends so that they may experience art music for free with the hope that they will become regular attendees. This isn't the same as stealing music since these tickets are mine to **freely** give away. I would never copy a CD hoping that someone would go out and buy the same CD - rather I'd encourage them to attend a live performance of the work as a "trial", or just go ahead and buy the CD. They'll most likely end up liking the music anyway.
PS - I do write software and give it away (LPRng for Cygwin), and participate in the OpenBSD project through hardware donations and bug fixes.
Is it that difficult to use?
It's "heels".
Just remember that this is only made possible with the BSD license.
Remember, Theo said that it was fine by him to use OpenBSD for whatever reason you want.
Had the OpenBSD kernel been GPL'ed, Darren would have had to make ipfilter work in OpenBSD userland.
You's think that with all the headlines you could spell their organization's name correctly!
quantum cryptography + one time cipher = uncrackable
one time cipher + shared secrets = uncrackable
AFAIK, these are the only two that are uncrackable. the latter is impractical because of the necessity of a large quantity of pre-shared random ciphers, and the former due to implementation (but not for long it seems).
In a typical capiltalist world, businesses are kept in check by the market and the government, and can't become monopolies. How do you believe Microsoft surpassed thse checks?
You can use MkLinux or
PPC Linux for the NuBus PowerMacs
Quick everyone install ssh and disable telnet!
No ftp, only sftp and scp.
No un-encrypted emails!
OpenBSD Networking Setup
OpenBSD has excellent documentation and FAQs. Just be sure to read, and re-read so you understand what's going on.
Let's see.....
Go search ebay for '486', 'P100', 'ne2k', 'ether16', or 'kingston ethernet' and tell me that the price couldn't be comparable. it's not like you even need a monitor or keyboard once the thing is set up.
plus you get the added benefit of actually *learning* something about networking, rather than blindly following plug-and-play setups.
your bottlenecks are the internet itself, followed by your Cable ISP, followed by the cable use in your neighborhood since it's shared.
if they're worried about performance get a P-100, which will probably be just as cheap. but that's overkill, really.
And when I say old and cheap, I mean 486 land with a 100 meg HD and two ne2k cards will be more than enough.
Find an old, cheap PC, get two old netcards, and put OpenBSD on it. Plus you'll need a hub or switch. Simple and secure.
Either arm them or make it impossible to get into the cockpits.
it's there.
And it's addictive.
And it's how the world should work.
We lead by example.
Check out the source to Darren Hiebert's ctags. Best-designed C program I've seen yet.
Katz, a lot of people have to worry about food and shelter.
Get things in perspecive, you whiner.
twm forever baby!
the government should take advantage of and improve public property whenever possible
That's why they're using a BSD licensed OS and not a GPL licensed OS, BTW
Yum
Don't watch TV. It's like a direct link into your OWN HOME for advertisers.
Cable TV is worse because you're paying for the opportunity to be swamped with ads! Wonderful!
I'd love to see the linux kernel coded in Python.
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