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_at_nop.org>
> To: <classiccmp_at_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_at_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_at_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
Received on Mon May 06 2002 - 19:29:11 BST