Re: best office/home office setup - the telecommuter

2009-07-24 Thread Drew Van Zandt
It's a fairly high-power machine; however, it is in regular use by upwards of a dozen people, though only I use it as a desktop (and that is a concession to waste-avoidance; servers should not ordinarily have desktop software running on them). When it's possible to have 3 TB of RAID storage in my

Re: Openmoko/Neo FreeRunner, nanocomputing (was: best office/home office setup - the telecommuter)

2009-07-24 Thread Neil Schelly
On Friday 24 July 2009 07:35:14 pm Joshua Judson Rosen wrote: > Anyone else have one? Anyone else doing anything neat with it? I've got one and ordered one as soon as I could do so. However, I still only pick it up every few weeks as I've been too busy to really dig into it. The phone has incr

Re: OT: Google humor

2009-07-24 Thread Ric Werme
> Nice. Reminds me of that old C book, the original one from way back. > The index listed all the pages for the word recursion including that > page of the index. I wrote a manaul for a PDP-10 IO package from Harvard, in the index I included one entry for the index. http://pdp-10.trailing-edge.c

Re: Openmoko/Neo FreeRunner, nanocomputing (was: best office/home office setup - the telecommuter)

2009-07-24 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Alan Johnson writes: > > On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 3:11 PM, Greg Rundlett > (freephile) wrote: > > Moving to a new employment position, I'm once again faced with > > purchasing some computer equipment.  I'm wondering what hardware, > > software and combination people like the best for working seamle

Re: Power management (was: best office/home office setup)

2009-07-24 Thread Mark Ellison
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 6:41 PM, Ben Scott wrote: > I keep meaning to look into getting this up, and use a wake-on-LAN > command from my SOHO router to wake it up for remote access. Anyone > else here played with that stuff? > Wake on LAN works great with my Lenovo M57 running Fedora 11. It is

Power management (was: best office/home office setup)

2009-07-24 Thread Ben Scott
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 4:18 PM, Alan Johnson wrote: > Shut that thing off when you are not using it! Most computers made in the past 20 years or so include power management features. Turning off the screen, spinning down the hard drives, and clocking down the CPU can be done without even stopp

Re: best office/home office setup - the telecommuter

2009-07-24 Thread Alan Johnson
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 3:11 PM, Greg Rundlett (freephile) wrote: > Moving to a new employment position, I'm once again faced with > purchasing some computer equipment.  I'm wondering what hardware, > software and combination people like the best for working seamlessly One of these (http://www.ope

Re: best office/home office setup - the telecommuter

2009-07-24 Thread Alan Johnson
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 3:17 PM, Drew Van Zandt wrote: > I find that a desktop is better than a laptop, for the home office bit at > least.  I don't have to wait for boot/shutdown, keep dragging power supplies > out, etc. I apologize in advance if I am preaching to the quire and this is just a su

Re: best office/home office setup - the telecommuter

2009-07-24 Thread Mark Ellison
One other not regarding the docking station- it comes with its own power supply! On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 3:58 PM, Mark Ellison wrote: > I will chime in on this topic. In the last few months I've purchased a > Lenovo W500 and a T500, a docking station and external monitor as well as a > Lenovo M

Re: best office/home office setup - the telecommuter

2009-07-24 Thread Mark Ellison
I will chime in on this topic. In the last few months I've purchased a Lenovo W500 and a T500, a docking station and external monitor as well as a Lenovo M57 desktop that I run headless as a Fedora 11 development platform. I connect to the M57 using tightvnc. The W50 also runs Fedora 11 like a ch

Re: best office/home office setup - the telecommuter

2009-07-24 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 3:26 PM, John Abreau wrote: > I just bought a couple Thinkpads for a couple of our engineers, > and one thing I ran into was a difference in supported screen > resolutions.  The T500 is 1680x1050, with no other options, > whereas the W500 is available as either 1680x1050 or

Re: best office/home office setup - the telecommuter

2009-07-24 Thread John Abreau
I just bought a couple Thinkpads for a couple of our engineers, and one thing I ran into was a difference in supported screen resolutions. The T500 is 1680x1050, with no other options, whereas the W500 is available as either 1680x1050 or 1900x1200. My engineers explicitly asked for 1900x1200, so

Re: best office/home office setup - the telecommuter

2009-07-24 Thread Drew Van Zandt
I find that a desktop is better than a laptop, for the home office bit at least. I don't have to wait for boot/shutdown, keep dragging power supplies out, etc. --DTVZ On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 3:11 PM, Greg Rundlett (freephile) < g...@freephile.com> wrote: > Moving to a new employment position, I

best office/home office setup - the telecommuter

2009-07-24 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
Moving to a new employment position, I'm once again faced with purchasing some computer equipment. I'm wondering what hardware, software and combination people like the best for working seamlessly in the office AND home office environment. I'm not really a traveller - so I don't have to do the 'r

Re: OT: Google humor

2009-07-24 Thread Alan Johnson
Nice. Reminds me of that old C book, the original one from way back. The index listed all the pages for the word recursion including that page of the index. On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 11:04 AM, Ben Scott wrote: > http://www.google.com/search?q=recursion > >  Watch out for spelling mistakes. > > -- B

OT: Google humor

2009-07-24 Thread Ben Scott
http://www.google.com/search?q=recursion Watch out for spelling mistakes. -- Ben ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/