Wow, that's really helpful. Thanks for letting us know! *Heads off to sourceforge to set up my soon-to-be multi-user machine*
-- "If practice makes perfect, and no one is perfect, then why practice?"
Hi,
Previously in order to get a multi-user Linux system (multiple
monitors/keyboards/mice + 1 PC) you had to patch the Kernel.
Now Aivils Stoss has created a new method to do so and it does NOT
involve a kernel patch, so you can get a multi-user Debian system (but
with a recent 2.6.x
On Sunday 28 September 2003 12:56 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> It's completely out of control. Be afraid that someone
> will patent the act of typing on a keyboard, or
> of breathing in and out, and try to charge you a royalty.
Or *hope* it happens and makes the revolution happen
sooner. Maybe
"csj" wrote:
> Just because something's obvious doesn't mean it can't be
> patented.
That's true today, but only because the USPTO is broken.
Long ago, when they were doing their job, the rules were:
1. No prior art
2. Not "obvious to anyone skilled in the art"
3. Useful and valuable.
#2 meant
At Sat, 27 Sep 2003 17:22:40 -0500,
Ron Johnson wrote:
>
> On Sat, 2003-09-27 at 16:56, csj wrote:
> > At Thu, 25 Sep 2003 11:00:29 -0700 (PDT),
> > Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> > >
> > > I just saved myself $600 and did NOT buy another box,
> > > but instead just a monitor, a videocard, a keyboard
>
Roberto Sanchez wrote:
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Ron Johnson wrote:
|>>This has got to be the best idea since Linux and
|>>Debian...
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|>Hurry! Patent it! ;-)
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|
| Too late. Multiuser-DOS schemes using this kind of technology
| was popular back in the mid-80s.
|
I don't bel
On Sat, 2003-09-27 at 17:34, Roberto Sanchez wrote:
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> Ron Johnson wrote:
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> |>>This has got to be the best idea since Linux and
> |>>Debian...
> |>
> |>Hurry! Patent it! ;-)
> |
> |
> | Too late. Multiuser-DOS schemes using this kind of techno
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Ron Johnson wrote:
|>>This has got to be the best idea since Linux and
|>>Debian...
|>
|>Hurry! Patent it! ;-)
|
|
| Too late. Multiuser-DOS schemes using this kind of technology
| was popular back in the mid-80s.
|
I don't believe that will have an i
On Sat, 2003-09-27 at 16:56, csj wrote:
> At Thu, 25 Sep 2003 11:00:29 -0700 (PDT),
> Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> >
> > I just saved myself $600 and did NOT buy another box,
> > but instead just a monitor, a videocard, a keyboard
> > and a mouse.
>
> [...]
>
> > It is described here:
> >
> > http:
At Thu, 25 Sep 2003 11:00:29 -0700 (PDT),
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
>
> I just saved myself $600 and did NOT buy another box,
> but instead just a monitor, a videocard, a keyboard
> and a mouse.
[...]
> It is described here:
>
> http://startx.times.lv/
> http://www.schuldei.org/aivils/
> http://va
I just saved myself $600 and did NOT buy another box,
but instead just a monitor, a videocard, a keyboard
and a mouse.
I put them in my box that just runs various flavors of
Debian and apt-getted a modified 4.3.0 X and installed
the vanilla 2.4.21 kernel and applied a patch.
Then I started xdm an
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