__/ [ thad01@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ] on Thursday 03 May 2007 17:32 \__
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> I sort of do the server(host)-client thing in the sense that over a
>> 100Mbit connection I always use just one computer and SSH to access one
>> from another. Backups are also simplified, so they automatically put the
>> server's content in 3 places overnight. I have done this for several years
>> and it has many advantages. Luckily, the server never ever goes down, but
>> in cases of outages the routers take time to recover. In the interim,
>> there's no access to your data. Still, centralisation (of bookmarks,
>> cookies, passwords, applications, etc.) is a wonderful thing. It saves a
>> lot of time.
>
> We similarly have a very networked household around here (only makes
> sense, as both the girlfriend and I mostly work from home). We have
> Linux acting as everything from media server and firewall to dumb
> X Window thin client and varying levels in between. We run both 32
> and 64 bit systems, x86 and PPC. We now have 5 Ubuntu systems on the
> network, one Fedora Core laptop, two OS X Macs, and ZERO dedicated
> Windows boxes. One Ubuntu system can dual boot Windows for the
> occasional video game and such, and I still have Win2000 available
> in a VMWare session, but otherwise we are essentially MS free.
> This is not from any hostility toward MS, we simply find that Linux
> does what we need, and it does it easier, faster, and cheaper.
I gave up on the my Windows installation back in 2005 because of the pains of
communication between the PCs. In a world without Windows, open standards
make interoperability so simple and painless.
> Thad
>
> P.S. I like the new system for tagging [News] articles.
It was the fruit of a short discussion in one of the threads. We also
discusses the possibility of adding numbers for importance, e.g. [1], [2],
[3], but apparently it's too subjective to be useful.
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