On Sunday 02 April 2006 12:30, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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
Despite me trying lots of different hardware I was never able to get satisfactory video on a thin client. I wanted to try root-in-ram not nfs, but a thick client worked so well and so easily that I've never bothered. Somebody posted here "they'd done it", when I said wow, details please, there was a deathly hush. So I believe that NFS on a 100M network gives jery video, even with a high end video card (tried ATI and NVIDIA). It's not watchable (of course you may be so pleased with your new baby that you overlook teeth-jarring F-L-i-C-ke-R. The same HW with the same LTSP SW installed on a local HD, instead of net-boot is beautifully smooth. Mythtv HDTV is marginal everywhere (console, remote) but SD is good. (DVICO, Twinhan) Extreeme example of a thin client to try HDTV: P4-3G, 1024M ram, GT6600, 100M network: watchable, but irritatingly pixellated. James ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
