Re: Nightstand Terminal

2004-12-12 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2004-12-12 at 09:27 -0500, Michael Marsh wrote: > On Sat, 11 Dec 2004 23:58:02 -0600, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > However, there's at least one still around: > > http://www.ncd.com/products/hardware/ncs/ > > What, no "Do" key? Not on non-DEC products. Besides, DO is F1

Re: Nightstand Terminal

2004-12-12 Thread Michael Marsh
On Sat, 11 Dec 2004 23:58:02 -0600, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > However, there's at least one still around: > http://www.ncd.com/products/hardware/ncs/ What, no "Do" key? -- Michael A. Marsh http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~mmarsh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: Nightstand Terminal

2004-12-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2004-12-11 at 23:37 -0500, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Sat, 2004-12-11 at 10:43 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > Greg Folkert wrote: > > > > > > You still are not understanding. I have been using Debian exactly like > > > LTSP for years. tftp booting, DNS, DHCP/BOOTP/RARP. At the place I wor

Re: Nightstand Terminal

2004-12-11 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sat, 2004-12-11 at 10:43 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Greg Folkert wrote: > > > > You still are not understanding. I have been using Debian exactly like > > LTSP for years. tftp booting, DNS, DHCP/BOOTP/RARP. At the place I work > > right now, I am in the process of finishing a tweak-out of

Re: Nightstand Terminal

2004-12-11 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Greg Folkert wrote: On Fri, 2004-12-10 at 14:43 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2004-12-10 at 12:32 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Invest in LTSP.org It will give you a terminal that can be very quiet with the horsepower of your workstation. I use a number of notebooks for these clients.

Re: Nightstand Terminal

2004-12-11 Thread Greg Folkert
On Fri, 2004-12-10 at 14:43 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Fri, 2004-12-10 at 12:32 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> > >> Invest in LTSP.org > >> > >> It will give you a terminal that can be very quiet with the horsepower > >> of > >> your workstation. I use a number of notebooks for t

Re: Nightstand Terminal

2004-12-10 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2004-12-09 at 06:54 -0500, Scotty Fitzgerald wrote: > Once again, the biggest problem is getting you guys to be > verbose ;-) > > Does anybody have experience with the following? > > 1) A smaller cheaper box, perhaps a stand alone box that takes > smaller and slower laptop parts? If I we

Re: Nightstand Terminal

2004-12-10 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 03:00:29PM -0500, Harland Christofferson wrote: > *snip* > > > >Through LTSP (which works very nicely with Debian) you could configure > a > >client workstation to run a X-window session from the big, loud, hot > >workstation/server you want to monitor. But the hardware co

Re: Nightstand Terminal

2004-12-10 Thread Nate Duehr
Greg Folkert wrote: On Thu, 2004-12-09 at 06:54 -0500, Scotty Fitzgerald wrote: Once again, the biggest problem is getting you guys to be verbose ;-) Does anybody have experience with the following? 1) A smaller cheaper box, perhaps a stand alone box that takes smaller and slower laptop parts?

Re: Nightstand Terminal

2004-12-10 Thread Barrett Dillow
I may have missed it but has anyone mentioned the Audrey for a "nightstand" solution? It runs QNX, ethernet or wifi connectivity, small, (pen) touchscreen, infrared keyboard, no hard drive, 200MHz or 333MHz processor, palmpilot syncing, email, blah blah blah they're neat. AudreyUpgrade store ht

Re: Nightstand Terminal

2004-12-10 Thread tallison
> On Fri, 2004-12-10 at 12:32 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> Invest in LTSP.org >> >> It will give you a terminal that can be very quiet with the horsepower >> of >> your workstation. I use a number of notebooks for these clients. The >> hard drive is not running so there's zero noise and

Re: Nightstand Terminal

2004-12-10 Thread tallison
> *snip* >> >>Through LTSP (which works very nicely with Debian) you could configure > a >>client workstation to run a X-window session from the big, loud, hot >>workstation/server you want to monitor. But the hardware could be >>configured in the BIOS to run without the hard drive or to spin > do

Re: Nightstand Terminal

2004-12-10 Thread Harland Christofferson
*snip* > >Through LTSP (which works very nicely with Debian) you could configure a >client workstation to run a X-window session from the big, loud, hot >workstation/server you want to monitor. But the hardware could be >configured in the BIOS to run without the hard drive or to spin down the >h

Re: Nightstand Terminal

2004-12-10 Thread tallison
> On Fri, 2004-12-10 at 12:32 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> > On Thu, 2004-12-09 at 06:54 -0500, Scotty Fitzgerald wrote: > [snip] >> >> Very compatable. >> Very easy to set up. >> I think the entire learning curve is a good Sunday. >> Assumption: It requires the following: >> DHCP >> DNS (opt

Re: Nightstand Terminal

2004-12-10 Thread Greg Folkert
On Fri, 2004-12-10 at 12:32 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Invest in LTSP.org > > It will give you a terminal that can be very quiet with the horsepower of > your workstation. I use a number of notebooks for these clients. The > hard drive is not running so there's zero noise and the power

Re: Nightstand Terminal

2004-12-10 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2004-12-10 at 12:32 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Thu, 2004-12-09 at 06:54 -0500, Scotty Fitzgerald wrote: [snip] > > Very compatable. > Very easy to set up. > I think the entire learning curve is a good Sunday. > Assumption: It requires the following: > DHCP > DNS (optional) > tf

Re: Nightstand Terminal

2004-12-10 Thread tallison
> On Thu, 2004-12-09 at 06:54 -0500, Scotty Fitzgerald wrote: >> Once again, the biggest problem is getting you guys to be >> verbose ;-) >> >> Does anybody have experience with the following? >> >> 1) A smaller cheaper box, perhaps a stand alone box that takes >> smaller and slower laptop parts? >

Re: Nightstand Terminal

2004-12-09 Thread Seneca
On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 06:54:16AM -0500, Scotty Fitzgerald wrote: > Does anybody have experience with the following? [...] > 3) Since an old laptop is a possible solution based on it's size, > any reccommended sources for purchasing used laptops that are > known to be able to run Woody?! The te

Re: Nightstand Terminal

2004-12-09 Thread dsr
On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 06:54:16AM -0500, Scotty Fitzgerald wrote: > Once again, the biggest problem is getting you guys to be > verbose ;-) > > Does anybody have experience with the following? > > 2) What about serial terminals? The new ones are $400 at CDW.com, > but I see that you can get ref

Re: Nightstand Terminal

2004-12-09 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Stephen Patterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004 Dec 09 09:31 -0600]: > Probably anything thats not too recent would work well, though for > your purposes I'd suggest an IBM Thinkpad 760EL, ok, thats a P1 with a > 2 gig disc but this model doesn't have any fans so the only noise is > the hard drive (

Re: Nightstand Terminal

2004-12-09 Thread Stephen Patterson
On Thu, 09 Dec 2004 13:10:10 +0100, Scotty Fitzgerald wrote: > 3) Since an old laptop is a possible solution based on it's size, > any reccommended sources for purchasing used laptops that are > known to be able to run Woody?! Probably anything thats not too recent would work well, though for you

Re: Nightstand Terminal

2004-12-09 Thread Pete
On Thu, 2004-12-09 at 06:54 -0500, Scotty Fitzgerald wrote: > Once again, the biggest problem is getting you guys to be > verbose ;-) > > Does anybody have experience with the following? > > 1) A smaller cheaper box, perhaps a stand alone box that takes > smaller and slower laptop parts? > > 2)

Re: Nightstand Terminal

2004-12-07 Thread Robt. Miller
An old notebook would be excellent for that purpose. I have an old HP C800 that I got for $150 that's perfect. On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 10:07:03AM -0600, Eric van der Paardt wrote: > I've got an old IBM POS that I scavenged from a junk heap, sadly there > is not linux support for its touchscreen

RE: Nightstand Terminal

2004-12-07 Thread Eric van der Paardt
I've got an old IBM POS that I scavenged from a junk heap, sadly there is not linux support for its touchscreen (that I have been able to find) as I always thought it would make a great dumb terminal (10" LCD, 486 100Mhz, built in LAN). I also have an ELO LCD touchscreen (elotouch.com), it does wo