6 May
2002
6 May
'02
12:29 p.m.
On Monday 06 May 2002 18:33, you wrote:
While I agree there is plenty of room for preferences,
I don't see why one
would want everything isolated from everything else on the LAN, when the
existence of the LAN is warranted by the need for shared access.
you are a bit unclear on the concept it seems
What isolation are you talking about, when the examaple shows
that the power of several machines seemless on one screen
operating as a whole ?
http://www.mosix.org
MOSIX is a software that allows any size Linux cluster of
Pentium/AMD workstations and servers to work cooperatively
like a single system.
I am not running mosix, I dispatch my taskloads off buttons like
was shown, run app xxx on host xxx.
But the mosix example is a close familiar to my operating habits.
and its strongly implied with my examples.
ON top of that, typing half a screenful of text just
to make some file
on some other machine accessible seems a mite burdensome.
Clicking on a button runs that text, i stated that clearly.
winblows limited thinking again ?
Even under DOS it only takes a single half-line of
text.
Some people just like *NIX because it enables them to stroke their own need
for pseudo-sophistry.
Here you dismiss superiority by waving "pseudo-sophistry" at it
this from you is really pathetic, but i think you are just a bit quick
off the gun, something im just as guilty of from time to time.
Perhaps you could look again and point out where your confusion
is.
From: "Raymond Moyers"
<rmoyers(a)nop.org>
To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 5:11 PM
Subject: Re: APPLEVISION Monitor,, No shell = No power
> On Monday 06 May 2002 16:36, you wrote:
> > Maybe they're willing to type a couple lines for the sake of
> > the added reliability, maybe it's easier for them to type
> > it out than to grab the mouse...
>
> Or perhaps if your already in the all powerfull environment
> you would only leave when the task isn't suited or
> the expense in time/effort/bother of moving to the other
> interface is less than staying put.
>
> some command strings become buttons.
>
> This button starts CDE desktop on my Sun, and places it windowed
> onto my Windomaker/Linux desktop as if it was an application
>
> ("SunDT :2 root@Sparc", SHEXEC, "(Xnest :2 -display fubar:0
> -nolock -bs -su &) && ssh1 -a -x -k -n -P -q -l root Sparc
> '(/root/xnest-desktop 1>/dev/null 2>/dev/null)'")),
>
> One click, and its on my screen.
>
> Or ..
> ("Netscape afu@Rx", EXEC, "ssh -a -x -k -n -P -q -l afu
> Rx netscape -display fubar:0
> file:///home/afu/.netscape/bookmarks.html"),
>
> Runs netscape on host rx puts it on screen fubar
>
> ( host rx has no screen or keyboard attached for 5 years)
>
> These examples show a multitude of things, but notice
> how command line strings become pretty clickety
> buttons on a popup menu.
>
> Raymond