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Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2008 5:47 pm
by Malcolm
Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2008 5:53 pm
by GORDON
Wasn't it Sun that pushed the network PC about 10 years ago?
Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2008 6:00 pm
by TPRJones
It won't catch on until the day that network technology makes every connection 100% reliable. I.E. until world-wide-wireless is the norm, not the rare exception.
Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2008 10:08 pm
by Malcolm
There is a scheme, weighted fair queuing or something, that can damn near guarantee an upper limit on how long it takes a packet to get transmitted. Proved theoretically in some class I was taking at the time.
Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2008 10:27 pm
by GORDON
Malcolm wrote:There is a scheme, weighted fair queuing or something, that can damn near guarantee an upper limit on how long it takes a packet to get transmitted. Proved theoretically in some class I was taking at the time.
Which wouldn't matter at all if all the lights on your cable modem are dark.
Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2008 10:36 pm
by TPRJones
Indeed. I'm already considering splitting up my pipe. I currently have phone, internet, and TV all coming through the same wire. Not having any of that for an extended period leaves me considering eggs and baskets and whatnot.
Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2008 10:39 pm
by Malcolm
GORDON wrote:Wasn't it Sun that pushed the network PC about 10 years ago?
Yep. & it was a stupid idea back then, too.
There's ain't no way I'm ever going to trust someone's central server to hand out all the apps I want to use. Ever. Unless I get the be the server admin. & in that case, why not have the softs already on my machine?
Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2008 10:50 pm
by TPRJones
Eh, I'm used to idiots being in charge of my computer. I work for a college.
But I'd need some assurances that there would be zero problems. The technology just isn't there yet.
Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2008 10:59 pm
by Malcolm
Oddly enough, I now work in a college like that. The higher ups have already indicated to me the tremendous blindspots located in their right half of their brains -- in some unfortunate cases, the left as well.
Gonna be a helluva trip redesigning curriculum for the accreditation bullshit.
Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2008 12:50 am
by GORDON
TPRJones wrote:Indeed. I'm already considering splitting up my pipe. I currently have phone, internet, and TV all coming through the same wire. Not having any of that for an extended period leaves me considering eggs and baskets and whatnot.
Heh, I *just* knocked down my aerial.
And the phone company's line blew down last year, and since I have cable phone they never replaced it.