Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Commercial LTSP

2003-01-02 Thread John N
thing. We > tried this on production machines one time and saturated the switches . > We hit total network saturation at about 24 clients. Needless to say > everything came to a grinding halt. > > > Cliff > > On Thu, 2003-01-02 at 11:07, John N wrote: > > Great idea

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Commercial LTSP

2003-01-02 Thread John N
Great idea - I would add OpenMosix/LTSP (so that idle workstations could contribute to overall performance...) - Original Message - From: "John McCreesh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Mike Hjorleifsson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 8:23 AM Subjec

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] RE: A forking we will go?

2002-12-18 Thread John N
I think that we are losing sight of the tremendous contribution which has been made by Jim McQuillan et al The LTSP project is a tribute to, and in the best traditions of, the open source movement More strength to your elbow chaps !! - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "

[Ltsp-discuss] This looks good for LTSP terminals...

2002-12-13 Thread John N
know that certain subscribers to this list distrust tigerdirect.com but take a look at this http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?sku=h27 -1176%20p&SRCCODE=WEM39300 --- This sf.net email is sponsored by: With Gr

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Probably an Old Question - Xwindows over the net ona windows client?

2002-11-24 Thread John N
Regards, Remi. On Sat, 23 Nov 2002 19:29:54 -0800 John N <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Cygwin works fine using, as an example, > "\cygwin\usr\x11r6\bin\xwin.exe -query 192.168.0.254 -fullscreen" > > The ever-trustworthy (and a bit slow) VNC also works fine ... >

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Probably an Old Question - Xwindows over the net ona windows client?

2002-11-23 Thread John N
Cygwin works fine using, as an example, "\cygwin\usr\x11r6\bin\xwin.exe -query 192.168.0.254 -fullscreen" The ever-trustworthy (and a bit slow) VNC also works fine ... Then if you ran Win4Lin on the Linux box you could have the interesting situation of running very unstable Window$ supporting som

[Ltsp-discuss] $99 IBM NetVista Thin Clients - an alternative

2002-11-09 Thread John N
And with a bit more memory, this would make a good LTSP server http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?sku=d13 6-4016%20p&SRCCODE=WEM374L John --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven

[Ltsp-discuss] $99 IBM NetVista Thin Clients - an alternative

2002-11-09 Thread John N
This would make a great LTSP terminal http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?sku=h27 -1104%20p&SRCCODE=WEM374L John --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] $99 IBM NetVista Thin Clients

2002-11-07 Thread John N
I have bought several computers from tigerdirect.com as well as a er... shedhouse of peripherals - and so have a number of my clients on my recommendation, all with no comebacks. They are my first choice, then computers4sure and computer geeks ... You're buying components dammit, how much s

[Ltsp-discuss] 3270

2002-10-14 Thread John N
I want to run some of my LTSP terminals as 3270 emulators. Any suggestions would be appreciated. TIA John --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Xservers

2002-08-08 Thread John N
Umm... Xmanager starts at US $69.00 Cygwin (on Window$) is free. Using Cygwin you connect to the LTSP server (or, for that matter, to any Linux box) with a simple command line instruction - in my case "ltsp.bat" contains only 1 line i.e. "\cygwin\usr\x11r6\bin\xwin.exe -query 192.168.0.254 -ful

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] best solution

2002-07-31 Thread John N
I prefer OpenMosix Take a look at http://www.ltsp.org/contrib/ltsp-om5r3c.html Best John - Original Message - From: "Ken Barber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Adrian D'Costa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2002 4:11 PM Subject: Re: [Ltsp-discuss] best sol

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] X Display overhead

2002-07-16 Thread John N
Take a look at TightVNC - http://www.tightvnc.com/ - I've had good results over a dial-up connection. - Original Message - From: "Adrian Snyman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2002 7:09 AM Subject: [Ltsp-discuss] X Display overhead > Does anyone thi

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] New LTSP Kernel pkg and wireless-ltsp available

2002-03-13 Thread John N
ters, mice and keyboards.> > > Jim McQuillan> [EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > On Wed, 13 Mar 2002, John N wrote:> > > Jim> > > > Great wireless news.> > > > However, I use a Linksys USB wireless adapter> > > > Any hope of you

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] New LTSP Kernel pkg and wireless-ltsp available

2002-03-13 Thread John N
Jim Great wireless news. However, I use a Linksys USB wireless adapter Any hope of you clever chaps looking at implementing this? There is a lot of USB wireless and other stuff out there (eg most palm devices these days come with USB cradles ...) Best John - Original Message ---

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Kernel won't load

2001-09-17 Thread John N
ember 17, 2001 5:11 PM Subject: Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Kernel won't load > tftp runs on port 69 so the following will show you if it is running. > > netstat -na | grep :69 > > if it is running you will get a line like > udp 0 0.0.0.0:69 0.0.0.0:* > > if

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Kernel won't load

2001-09-17 Thread John N
> Have you had it running before? > > One thing you might try check and make sure that tftpd is running > > I had this problem for a bit and it ended up being that Tftp wasn't running > on the server > > -Original Message- > From: John N [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Kernel won't load

2001-09-17 Thread John N
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of John N > Sent: Monday, September 17, 2001 3:30 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [Ltsp-discuss] Kernel won't load > > > Using an appropriate boot floppy (still waiting for the ROM I ordered) the >

[Ltsp-discuss] Kernel won't load

2001-09-17 Thread John N
Using an appropriate boot floppy (still waiting for the ROM I ordered) the WS finds the DHCP server OK, but hangs at the "loading vmlinuz.eepro100" stage. I use a Linksys router set at 192.168.0.1, and the NIC in the LTSP box has 192.168.0.2 assigned to it. I have read all the postings in the