backup & low downtime for home network

[Robert Brockway]

On Wed, 5 Dec 2007, Chris Aitken wrote:

> cpc: 20 GB master hard drive (that just died) and 10 GB slave hard drive (I 
> keep .ogg's on it), 384 MB RAM, PIII 733 MHz
>
> ppc: 20 GB master hard drive and 6 GB slave hard drive (for backups), 256 MB 
> RAM, AMD Duron 800 MHz
>
> dpc: 13.5 GB hard drive, 256 MB RAM, PIII 733 MHz
>
> bpc: 13.5 GB hard drive, 256 MB RAM, PIII 733 MHz

Hi Chris.  In an earlier email I mentioned how thin clients are a great 
way to go.  Linux and X lend themselves so well to thin client 
technologies and you often get better performance than using old machines 
as workstations.

Despite the many many advantages (including simplified backups and reduced 
management time) alot of people don't seem to "get" thin clients.  For 
people used to the workstation paradigm it can seem a strange idea.

I've had a thin client (XTerminal) on my desk for about 12 years now and I 
get better performance because of it.

Perhaps I need to give a thin client talk to GTALUG.  I know you probably 
can't make it Chris :(

Since I'm no longer the talks coordinator I'll need to apply :)

Cheers,

Rob

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