Are you talking about thin client or remote desktop access? VNC does pretty much what you're looking to do. One computer, one set of data, accesible from anywhere depedning on how you set it up. I believe there's also a jav version that you could easily run off an Apache server.
Otherwise check out www.ltsp.org for terminal services/thin client options.
So, if the north pole is shifting that far, that fast... will the Canadian children see any change in Santa's normal delivery schedule? I can only assume he'd be a little later than normal, seeing as how Siberia is quite a flight from Northern Canada.
I've seen the complaints on/. and all the other sites out there. Where does this notion come from that they ever WERE a bank? I use Paypal to send and receive credit card payments. As soon as the money hits my account, I take it out. Why would I expect Paypal to FDIC insure it? Or to give me interest? or any of these other services?
That being said, I think Paypal has some shady stuff going on so I will discontinue the use of their service.
This is probably the best thing that COULD come from this. With bankruptcy floating over his head, the CEO has basically only one choice. File for bankruptcy, divide up the assets (which includes the code) to his creditors (employees) and hope he doesn't go to jail. If the employees have the code, they may be able to get another startup going. Linux software can be successful in the marketplace, but you need to be careful how to manage it. What were they buying for $350K??? Sounds like a lot of Aeron chairs and BMWs to me. Budget yourself well and your business can succeed.
The obvious anser is right here. That is assuming of course that linux is a viable answer. If you're talking Windows thin client (I hope you're not, since you did post this to/.) Citrix is your only real option.
Apparently the/. editors don't consider this newsworthy. I've submitted it several times to get it rejected, I suppose if ESR had submitted it they would've posted it.
Walmart.com is selling PCs without Windows. In a Cnet article (sorry, don't have the link) Walmart announced this because the cost of Windows is offsetting the cost of cheap hardware and Windows is making the computer too expensive.
I submitted this story twice only to get it rejected. Over at News.com there's an article about Walmart stepping out ahead and offering PC's WITHOUT an OS! This will not only drop the cost of the PC but will alert consumers that yes, they ARE paying for the OS and yes, it DOES matter that linux is free.
neural technology that allowed a monkey to control a mouse
Anyone who has ever worked tech support knows that this technology is nothing new. Every day our voice mail is full of these mouse controlling monkey-brained folks.
you can also run a cluster of Linux (virtual) machines on your desktop
So you're suggesting that I divide my machine into 8 virtual machines and then cluster them for uber fun? Figuring the extra latency, wouldn't it be faster to just leave it alone?
Here's a good question... why do off-topic posts get moderated negatively and end up in the bottom with all the goatse.cx and Natalie p0rtman posts? let's say I have something intelligent to say about beowulf clusters that spawns from a thread about the McOwen case (could very well happen). Nope, sorry, -1 Offtopic! Your opinion isn't worth anything if it's not about the article specifically!
What I'm suggesting (because I know now that Jamie is probably reading this) is to go with a multi-dimensional moderation system instead of the current flat moderation system. Maybe use color coding along with the numeric system. If I write an intelligent off topic post I get mod'ed as +2, red. Those who don't want to read offtopic posts can then set to squelch all red posts and only read the green (default) posts. Anyway, just a suggestion.
My Japanese is a little.. well, ok, I don't know any but I gather from this picture and this picture that 3 Ghz isn't all that hard to do. Apparently an array of copper heatsinks and a few extra fans can squeeze that extra speed without the use of nitro. This looks like a much more efficient way to cook an omelette than the posted nitro method.
So, this is the latest and greatest... why? $400 seems like a nice price for a color PalmOS based PDA with 16 MB, considering the only thing similar is the Visor Prism for around $300. So it's got a remote control feature. So does my Visor Deluxe. It's got Omniremote, a pretty sweet shareware remote app (www.palmgear.com). I suppose I could get audio addons and software for it, but how many MP3s can you really store in the 16 MB Sony anyway? Cool product, yes, but all this talk about blowing Palm and Handspring off the market... not a chance. Where's the expenasion slot? Can I pop a Magellan GPS unit onto it? Can I get a V.90 modem for it?
IMHO the Handsprings beat the crap out of every portable on the market because of the Springboard slot. Sure, you have to pay $$ for those expansions, but at least they're available.
One last rant: If Sony is bragging about how thin they are, why do they only show them from the front?:-)
I think IBM's biggest screw up was their proprietary desktops. The PS/2s, the Aptivas... weird hardware, high prices. Compaq/Gateway/Dell are desktop companies. They know how to make a buck in that market. Remember back in 1994 when you could buy an IBM desktop with OS/2 and Dell/Gateway/Compaq with Windows 95? They bundled a failing OS (OS/2 rocks, M$ marketdroids made it fail) into a proprietary box and charged more money. I'm not a genius, but it's pretty simple to see how IBM lost their desktop market.
Still, Netfinity servers, Thinkpad notebooks, and their midrange (AS/400, S/390) servers rock. IBM knows that's where their money is, and they do a great job at it.
Anyways.. no matter how you look at it, this is a problem that fundamentally involves the act of downloading a file. Something even my mother knows not do by herself.
Never underestimate human stupidity. Actual conversation I had with a user who opened a virused EXE: "But, this person I don't know sent me this EXE. I figured it was someone I know playing a joke". This was just recently, after many, many, many e-mails from the IS department about opening files that you don't know the origin of. STUPID people refuse to die, and most of them use IE.
I have a lot of experience working with guitar players and many of them would never go with this type of thing. Most guitar players like their sound raw, using analog effects and tube amps. Why? Because its sounds so good. There's nothing like the crunch of plugging your guitar into a Marshall stack and blowing people out of the building. It's tough to capture that tube sound in digital technology, and this ethernet guitar takes it one step farther away from the analog that they want. I really can't see a lot of hard core musicians going for a system like this.
most startup stories are sensationalized. "Two people started Cisco in their living room" sounds better than "after fighting Stanford for rights to technology and with the aid of a team of geeks, Cisco was born". Same with Jobs and Wozniak. the whole "Apple IIe invented in their garage" sound much better than "Wozniak was working for HP at the time and did most of the work at his desk". People like to hear stories about total nobodies who lived the ultimate American dream, that's all. I use Cisco because they make a good product, not because of their sensational "against all odds" story.
Yes, but you're talking DSL. You pay for a fixed amount of bandwidth. If you put 253 computer behind your NAT, and pull up the/. home page at the same time, you are still only using 384K of bandwidth (yes, I know you're running Squid, that's beside the point). It will be very slow.
In a cable situation, you're sucking up a lot more bandwidth than they THINK you paid for. You're "granted" a certain portion of neighborhood shared bandwidth. By hooking up 253 PCs you're now exceeding that bandwidth that was "granted" to you. , and they call it stealing. It's poor design on their part, but it's easier to charge people for useless technology than fix their screwup.
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Are you talking about thin client or remote desktop access? VNC does pretty much what you're looking to do. One computer, one set of data, accesible from anywhere depedning on how you set it up. I believe there's also a jav version that you could easily run off an Apache server.
Otherwise check out www.ltsp.org for terminal services/thin client options.
It's OK, I'm karma capped anyway.
/. karma math: 50 + 4 - 1 = 49
So, if the north pole is shifting that far, that fast... will the Canadian children see any change in Santa's normal delivery schedule? I can only assume he'd be a little later than normal, seeing as how Siberia is quite a flight from Northern Canada.
I've seen the complaints on /. and all the other sites out there. Where does this notion come from that they ever WERE a bank? I use Paypal to send and receive credit card payments. As soon as the money hits my account, I take it out. Why would I expect Paypal to FDIC insure it? Or to give me interest? or any of these other services?
That being said, I think Paypal has some shady stuff going on so I will discontinue the use of their service.
This is probably the best thing that COULD come from this. With bankruptcy floating over his head, the CEO has basically only one choice. File for bankruptcy, divide up the assets (which includes the code) to his creditors (employees) and hope he doesn't go to jail. If the employees have the code, they may be able to get another startup going. Linux software can be successful in the marketplace, but you need to be careful how to manage it. What were they buying for $350K??? Sounds like a lot of Aeron chairs and BMWs to me. Budget yourself well and your business can succeed.
CEO: "Let's put a really cool device on our web site that geeks will like to drool over!"
IT Tech: "/. will post it and consume our bandwidth. We can't handle that."
CEO: "Bandwidth Schmandwidth. I want pretty geek pictures!"
IT Tech: "The pictures make it worse."
CEO: "Nonsense. Let's post it anyway!"
IT Tech: "Ok, I warned you......"
I think the inclusion of an animated X10 ad on every page knocks any website out of contention for that kind of prestige
This is true, although with the infestation of X10 ads on the net I've become somewhat oblivious to them.
Johns Hopkins Researchers Say Universe Much Blander Than Before
It's nice to see a respected source as space.com using headlines that sound more like The Onion.
The obvious anser is right here. That is assuming of course that linux is a viable answer. If you're talking Windows thin client (I hope you're not, since you did post this to /.) Citrix is your only real option.
Ok, that's almost better than the original post! Anyone else do any appliance mods to their SGI boxen?
Apparently the
Walmart.com is selling PCs without Windows. In a Cnet article (sorry, don't have the link) Walmart announced this because the cost of Windows is offsetting the cost of cheap hardware and Windows is making the computer too expensive.
I submitted this story twice only to get it rejected. Over at News.com there's an article about Walmart stepping out ahead and offering PC's WITHOUT an OS! This will not only drop the cost of the PC but will alert consumers that yes, they ARE paying for the OS and yes, it DOES matter that linux is free.
Is anyone else finding a coincidence here that this follows a story entitled "what is .NET?"? I think we now know :-)
neural technology that allowed a monkey to control a mouse
Anyone who has ever worked tech support knows that this technology is nothing new. Every day our voice mail is full of these mouse controlling monkey-brained folks.
you can also run a cluster of Linux (virtual) machines on your desktop
So you're suggesting that I divide my machine into 8 virtual machines and then cluster them for uber fun? Figuring the extra latency, wouldn't it be faster to just leave it alone?
Here's a good question... why do off-topic posts get moderated negatively and end up in the bottom with all the goatse.cx and Natalie p0rtman posts? let's say I have something intelligent to say about beowulf clusters that spawns from a thread about the McOwen case (could very well happen). Nope, sorry, -1 Offtopic! Your opinion isn't worth anything if it's not about the article specifically!
What I'm suggesting (because I know now that Jamie is probably reading this) is to go with a multi-dimensional moderation system instead of the current flat moderation system. Maybe use color coding along with the numeric system. If I write an intelligent off topic post I get mod'ed as +2, red. Those who don't want to read offtopic posts can then set to squelch all red posts and only read the green (default) posts. Anyway, just a suggestion.
I have little time to look at nothing more than a booklet of pretty pictures
/. in the first place?
If your time is so valuable, why do you read
My Japanese is a little.. well, ok, I don't know any but I gather from this picture and this picture that 3 Ghz isn't all that hard to do. Apparently an array of copper heatsinks and a few extra fans can squeeze that extra speed without the use of nitro. This looks like a much more efficient way to cook an omelette than the posted nitro method.
So, this is the latest and greatest... why? $400 seems like a nice price for a color PalmOS based PDA with 16 MB, considering the only thing similar is the Visor Prism for around $300. So it's got a remote control feature. So does my Visor Deluxe. It's got Omniremote, a pretty sweet shareware remote app (www.palmgear.com). I suppose I could get audio addons and software for it, but how many MP3s can you really store in the 16 MB Sony anyway? Cool product, yes, but all this talk about blowing Palm and Handspring off the market... not a chance. Where's the expenasion slot? Can I pop a Magellan GPS unit onto it? Can I get a V.90 modem for it?
:-)
IMHO the Handsprings beat the crap out of every portable on the market because of the Springboard slot. Sure, you have to pay $$ for those expansions, but at least they're available.
One last rant: If Sony is bragging about how thin they are, why do they only show them from the front?
I think IBM's biggest screw up was their proprietary desktops. The PS/2s, the Aptivas... weird hardware, high prices. Compaq/Gateway/Dell are desktop companies. They know how to make a buck in that market. Remember back in 1994 when you could buy an IBM desktop with OS/2 and Dell/Gateway/Compaq with Windows 95? They bundled a failing OS (OS/2 rocks, M$ marketdroids made it fail) into a proprietary box and charged more money. I'm not a genius, but it's pretty simple to see how IBM lost their desktop market.
Still, Netfinity servers, Thinkpad notebooks, and their midrange (AS/400, S/390) servers rock. IBM knows that's where their money is, and they do a great job at it.
Anyways.. no matter how you look at it, this is a problem that fundamentally involves the act of downloading a file. Something even my mother knows not do by herself.
Never underestimate human stupidity. Actual conversation I had with a user who opened a virused EXE: "But, this person I don't know sent me this EXE. I figured it was someone I know playing a joke". This was just recently, after many, many, many e-mails from the IS department about opening files that you don't know the origin of. STUPID people refuse to die, and most of them use IE.
Just seemed ironic that /. linked to a site in order to break the news that a site prohibits linking to it.
I have a lot of experience working with guitar players and many of them would never go with this type of thing. Most guitar players like their sound raw, using analog effects and tube amps. Why? Because its sounds so good. There's nothing like the crunch of plugging your guitar into a Marshall stack and blowing people out of the building. It's tough to capture that tube sound in digital technology, and this ethernet guitar takes it one step farther away from the analog that they want. I really can't see a lot of hard core musicians going for a system like this.
most startup stories are sensationalized. "Two people started Cisco in their living room" sounds better than "after fighting Stanford for rights to technology and with the aid of a team of geeks, Cisco was born". Same with Jobs and Wozniak. the whole "Apple IIe invented in their garage" sound much better than "Wozniak was working for HP at the time and did most of the work at his desk". People like to hear stories about total nobodies who lived the ultimate American dream, that's all. I use Cisco because they make a good product, not because of their sensational "against all odds" story.
Yes, but you're talking DSL. You pay for a fixed amount of bandwidth. If you put 253 computer behind your NAT, and pull up the /. home page at the same time, you are still only using 384K of bandwidth (yes, I know you're running Squid, that's beside the point). It will be very slow.
In a cable situation, you're sucking up a lot more bandwidth than they THINK you paid for. You're "granted" a certain portion of neighborhood shared bandwidth. By hooking up 253 PCs you're now exceeding that bandwidth that was "granted" to you. , and they call it stealing. It's poor design on their part, but it's easier to charge people for useless technology than fix their screwup.