I cannot help you but understand the minority bit-I'm married as well. At
least your wife seems to use linux. I cannot persuade my wife to look at
linux. She struggles with M$ windows. I was trying to explain why we
didn't need office 99 (naughty people kept sending us word 99 docs that word
6 wouldn't look at). I just didn't want to spend £300 on an office suite
thats full of bugs. Luckily WP8 opens up all these files.......... -OT I
know. NH.
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>From: "Scott Kindley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: RE: Terminals, like in the 'good old days''. ;-)
>Date: Thu, Apr 6, 2000, 3:24 pm
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Gustav Schaffter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>> Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2000 7:00 AM
>> To: redhat-list (Mailing list)
>> Subject: Terminals, like in the 'good old days''. ;-)
>>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm socializing with this idea of mine...
>>
>> Long time ago, I worked with mainframes only. Then with what we called
>> 'mini-computers'. What was different was (among a few other things :)
>> that you didn't have a *Personal* Computer on your desk. You
>> shared the
>> computer with other users.
>>
>> Now, having gone through the cycle of working/living with DOS, Win32
>> (fortunatley, I haven't yet seen Win00) and OS/2, I'm running Linux on
>> most of my computers at home.
>>
>>
>> Linux is (by definition) stable. Makes sense to keep it running.
>>
>> My wife is, let's say, not _enthusiastic_ about leaving the
>> PCs running
>> 24/7. Me and my kids would love it though, but since we are
>> in minority
>> (4) against my wife who is in majority (1), the PCs are all shutdown
>> over night. (If you're married, you'll understand. If not, you'll have
>> to wait until you see the light. ;-)
>>
>>
>> My idea: (This is the 'good old days' part.)
>> I'd like to leave all the PCs running in the basement. 24/7. And have
>> only 'dumb terminals' in our sleeping rooms, living rooms,
>> hallways and
>> in the kitchen. (The bathroom?) Log in using any (free :) terminal and
>> you're on the LAN. Maybe doing all the login on one dedicated
>> PC having
>> NFS mounted hard disks/CD/floppy etc. from other PCs. Maybe even some
>> kind of load balancing cluster, all in the basement. No CPU,
>> no harddisk
>> and (*most* important) no ventilation fans making noise at
>> the point of
>> login. Except(!) one PC somewhere accessible where I would run two
>> (four?) floppies, and a few CD-ROMs. One small boot disk only.
>>
>>
>> Could someone enlighten me about what I would need to create the part
>> titled 'dumb terminal' in this solution?
>>
>> Guess I'd need some monitors, keyboards and mice, but how do they
>> communicate (over distance) with the PCs? Do I use some kind
>> of modems?
>> What kind of modems? Can I use ordinary PC equipment to do this?
>> (Looking forward to have multiple video cards under XFree 4.0.) Can I
>> serve multiple sound cards from a shared PC to dedicated
>> 'login points'?
>> Using a multiplexor in the living room to serve multiple
>> monitor setups?
>>
>>
>> Any hints, experiences and additional ideas (as always) much
>> appreciated.
>>
>> Regards
>> Gustav
>>
>> P.S. I now. I might find myself sleeping in the basement one day. But
>> what wouldn't I do for my Linux boxes? :-)
>>
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