Re: [users] Hugely OT About Proxies (was Re: [users] INDIA'S MINI COMPUTER....)

2010-03-06 Thread Harold Fuchs
Lars Nooden wrote: On 2010-3-6 8:48 PM, Harold Fuchs wrote: You said "With ssh forwarding and sshfs... SSHFS is one way of getting access to files hosted elsewhere. You could run OpenOffice on your machine and access files that are somewhere else. The next step up would be regular n

Re: [users] Hugely OT About Proxies (was Re: [users] INDIA'S MINI COMPUTER....)

2010-03-06 Thread Lars Nooden
On 2010-3-6 8:48 PM, Harold Fuchs wrote: > You said "With ssh forwarding and sshfs... SSHFS is one way of getting access to files hosted elsewhere. You could run OpenOffice on your machine and access files that are somewhere else. The next step up would be regular network accessible storage, ak

[users] Hugely OT About Proxies (was Re: [users] INDIA'S MINI COMPUTER....)

2010-03-06 Thread Harold Fuchs
Ivan Stout wrote: On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 12:32 AM, Johnny Rosenberg wrote: Ehr… it has OpenOffice.org 2.4…? THAT is REALLY old… Well, I would call that a strength of FOSS . . . Maybe that is all they needed and there was no vendor to force them to use higher hardware specs just to su

Re: [users] INDIA'S MINI COMPUTER....

2010-03-06 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2010/3/6 Ivan Stout : > On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 12:32 AM, Johnny Rosenberg > wrote: > >> Ehr… it has OpenOffice.org 2.4…? THAT is REALLY old… >> > > Well, I would call that a strength of FOSS . . . Maybe that is all they > needed and there was no vendor to force them to use higher hardware specs >

Re: [users] INDIA'S MINI COMPUTER....

2010-03-05 Thread Ivan Stout
On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 12:32 AM, Johnny Rosenberg wrote: > Ehr… it has OpenOffice.org 2.4…? THAT is REALLY old… > Well, I would call that a strength of FOSS . . . Maybe that is all they needed and there was no vendor to force them to use higher hardware specs just to support the latest version. T

Re: [users] INDIA'S MINI COMPUTER....

2010-03-05 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2010/3/5 सिद्धार्थ वाईकर : > Hi All, > > DSK Digital (part of the DSK group from Pune) has launched this Texas > Instruments OMAP3 600mhz ARM based full Linux computer system for a > whole bunch of low power, even solar powered computing for on the > field healthcare, e-governm... etc. etc. > >