On Wed, 2003-01-29 at 15:37, Steven C. Darnold wrote: > Bob George wrote: > > > > vegetarians should get used to the idea that Atkins' > > approach is popular with many. > > That's right, Bob. Go find a vegetarian discussion > group and tell them about the Atkins diet. That'll > be *real* popular.
You keep insisting it's vegetarian! I say (keeping the *really* bad analogy in play) it's more like weight reduction. OK, the whole analogy is silly, but so's this "issue". > > Great! One "non-surv" machine can extend the usefulness > > of many surv-class machines. > > I prefer to think of it as surv-class machines making > the new machine more useful. Well, a bit like the brain and the heart arguing. One without the other is less, whether they "like" it or not. > [...] > Uniformity shouldn't be an issue. Assuming the school > already has their old PCs networked. Just drop a more > powerful PC into the network and reconfigure the old PCs > as X terminals. It's primarily an issue for building standardized images to allow new systems of varying type and vintage to be added. Just as with BL, there are choices to be made as to what goes onto the systems. Again, this has as much to do with lack of technical talent resources, but it's still a big challenge. Our LUG -- fortunately -- has a number of folks who like this sort of challenge. There's now a non-profit org associated with the LUG that takes on projecst on behalf of schools, non-profits etc. In situations where a few individuals can make a decision free of politics, quite a bit happens. For the larger school systems though, Microsoft usually shows up and "gives" them loads of software. Although the systems used are not truly Surv-class according to some, it is an effort to avoid wasteful replacement of fully functional hardware based solely on OS and application demands. - Bob To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
