RE: OT : Humor only an Admin can enjoy.

2012-08-26 Thread Ken Schaefer
Kurt, You introduced cars as an analogy. Please have a look at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_motor_vehicle_deaths_in_U.S._by_year to see that deaths due to car crashes, as a % of the population have been falling for years in the US. That's despite the fact that there are more cars,

Re: Laptop with Serial Port?

2012-08-26 Thread Hank .
I went through various USB to serial adapters. I saw and bought a cheap one made by Trendnet and it simply works all of the time. On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 12:42 PM, Roger Wright rhw...@gmail.com wrote: Anyone have a recommendation for a 12-14 laptop with a serial port? We have some field

RE: Death of the Desktops?

2012-08-26 Thread Mathew Shember
Well? Desktop to me is just that; a desktop machine such as the Dell Precession. For software engineers (at least in EDA); I don't see the tablets replacing them as they lack the power and ram these guys need. We looked at VDI and basically what we were going to save in desktop/laptop costs

RE: Anternet

2012-08-26 Thread Ken Schaefer
If the ant behaviour predates TCP, wouldn't it be TCP that is mirroring ant behaviour? Cheers Ken From: Crawford, Scott [mailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu] Sent: Monday, 27 August 2012 10:13 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Anternet Stanford biologist and computer scientist discover the