Bash programming resources

2014-12-22 Thread Todd Millecam
The extend of my bash knowledge is basically return codes, &&, ;, ||, arguments, basic loops, and [ 4 -ge $i ] kind of stuff. It gets the job done, but it's not much for efficiency or elegance. I was wondering what resources are out there (books, online tutorials, ect) for intermediate and advanc

Re: USB NICs

2014-12-22 Thread Nicholas Leippe
If your client motherboards support it, you could go full openbios--which flashes your kernel directly into the bios for very fast boot times. /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */

Re: USB NICs

2014-12-22 Thread Levi Pearson
On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 12:02 PM, Michael Torrie wrote: > Well I don't think netbooting will be quite as fast as local SSD. But > it might be fast enough. The Linux Terminal Server project has been > doing this sort of thing for years. Seems to have worked out fine. > They might have more informa

Re: USB NICs

2014-12-22 Thread Joel Finlinson
On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 12:02 PM, Michael Torrie wrote: > On 12/21/2014 11:45 PM, Dan Egli wrote: > > On December 18, 2014, Michael Torrie wrote: > >> Back to Dan's question. What is your end goal here? What will the > >> PXE-booted workstations be used for? > > > > Well I don't think netbooti

Re: USB NICs

2014-12-22 Thread Nicholas Leippe
At least with Win9x there was even a way to configure it to run out of a ramdisk--you could boot off of CD/disk/network and initialize a ramdisk and run out of there quite nicely. /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the p

Re: USB NICs

2014-12-22 Thread Michael Torrie
On 12/21/2014 11:45 PM, Dan Egli wrote: > On December 18, 2014, Michael Torrie wrote: >> Back to Dan's question. What is your end goal here? What will the >> PXE-booted workstations be used for? > > The idea is to have a central location for all software, all the O/S, > etc The workstation shou