Joseph Toman wrote:
Just adding to what another poster said about this and about computer repairmen becoming just as essential as plumbers, carpenters, etc. .Higher end new housing (in the US) is increasingly getting plumbed with cat-5. It's not a stretch to imagine the rackmount server in the utility room, sandwiched between the water heater and the security system, or even running the security system. This would be bad news for hardware manufacturers, at least until they adjusted their business model to account for a more efficient use of hardware.
Actually here in Norway home setups beats most of the office installs I work with. People have some real high-end things at home, and low-end at work. Parts of my city has got fiber straight to the house. Still, home people do not like high "craftsman"/IT-guy bills, but they'd be prepared to pay for good hardware. That's why I mean it would be better for people to get a stable system rather than a fancy, breaking-down one. Of course this is a bit off-topic, because I don't know too many deploying LTSP at home :) But I can see some use for pre-built entertainment boxes booting from the network in the house - just plug your TVset-top-box to the network (evt place it in a WLAN covered area), boot it via LTSP/PXE and you can access your media content (or other content for the sake of it) from around the house. If you've got more of those set-top-boxes, just keep connecting them to the net :)
Okay maybe this exists in some form already but the fun is in building it from scratch isn't it?
Arno
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