On Tue, 2007-07-24 at 11:35 -0700, UNIX admin wrote: > Well, why must it be on the Internet? > Can't we have a server that sits in a living room or in a closet or in the > basement, which stores all our data on encrypted disks, centrally, secured by > ZFS?
Who builds and installs that server in the average person's home? Obviously someone specialized in and hired specifically for the task, because this entire thread is grown out of your seeming position that the average person can and should be shut out of managing their own gear. > Which contains all our applications, that enable us to manage our data, > photos, movies, music, documents? > Which provides applications in the forms of http:// URIs and enables us to do > the exact same things we previously needed to install applications for on > disparate systems? > Why couldn't it stream all this data to several clients around the house at > the same time? What is the difference between a person's "beige-box" PC, and your description here serving a single client, which is all the average "living room server" would need to handle? Other than a lot more latency, possibly less noise, and more power required to the server? And, of course, the specialized technician needed to visit and adjust the thing whenever you want to add an application (remember, you said no "internet"). > Why can't the desktop dogma be challenged? The desktop dogma is challenged constantly. However, the desktop dogma constantly *wins*. Don't confuse the lack of defeat with the lack of challenge. "Simple" is not necessarily an insult. http://mystilleef.blogspot.com/2004/10/simplicity.html _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
