http://mrpogson.com One man. Closing, all the windows. Sat, 04 Feb 2012 13:36:49 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://mrpogson.com/2009/05/27/2009-may-be-the-year-of-thin-clients-too/ http://mrpogson.com/2009/05/27/2009-may-be-the-year-of-thin-clients-too/#comments Thu, 28 May 2009 02:51:40 +0000 Robert Pogson http://mrpogson.com/?p=539 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { width: 50%; padding-top: 1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float: left; margin: 4px 4px 4px 4px; } I have already confirmed that 2009 is the year of GNU/Linux. It looks like its the year of the Thin Client, too. My dataset: five of the top ten most popular whitepapers on desktop+OS on ZDnet are about thin clients virtualization has reached a crescendo with thin clients being one of the major modes. India [...]]]> http://mrpogson.com/2009/05/27/2009-may-be-the-year-of-thin-clients-too/feed/ 0 http://mrpogson.com/2009/05/12/inversion/ http://mrpogson.com/2009/05/12/inversion/#comments Tue, 12 May 2009 12:59:55 +0000 Robert Pogson http://mrpogson.com/?p=494 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { width: 50%; padding-top: 1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float: left; margin: 4px 4px 4px 4px; } I woke up this morning and realized I had created an inversion. No, not a condition of the weather likely to result in a storm, or an inverted population of excited atome likely to lase, but an inverted population of students, users of PCs. You see, in this school there are two labs. For higher [...]]]> http://mrpogson.com/2009/05/12/inversion/feed/ 0 http://mrpogson.com/2009/05/10/stupidity/ http://mrpogson.com/2009/05/10/stupidity/#comments Sun, 10 May 2009 13:57:14 +0000 Robert Pogson http://mrpogson.com/?p=489 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { width: 50%; padding-top: 1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float: left; margin: 4px 4px 4px 4px; } Resistance to change is a defensive measure we all have to prevent wasting time learning something new for the sake of change. It can go too far. It has gone too far the way many retain that other OS. You know the kind: never used anything else hires someone every year to re-install/delouse that other [...]]]> http://mrpogson.com/2009/05/10/stupidity/feed/ 2 http://mrpogson.com/2009/01/22/change/ http://mrpogson.com/2009/01/22/change/#comments Thu, 22 Jan 2009 17:14:18 +0000 Robert Pogson http://mrpogson.com/?p=210 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { width: 50%; padding-top: 1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float: left; margin: 4px 4px 4px 4px; } Change is in the air in 2009. 7 is being touted as a “Linux-killer” by sycophants of that other OS. This means the puppet-masters are fearful of GNU/Linux. They have been fearful since 2000 or so when IBM began to push GNU/Linux. Now their worst nightmares are coming true: netbooks give them nowhere to hide [...]]]> http://mrpogson.com/2009/01/22/change/feed/ 2 http://mrpogson.com/2009/01/04/xp-obsolete-when-it-was-released/ http://mrpogson.com/2009/01/04/xp-obsolete-when-it-was-released/#comments Sun, 04 Jan 2009 17:40:32 +0000 Robert Pogson http://mrpogson.com/?p=188 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { width: 50%; padding-top: 1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float: left; margin: 4px 4px 4px 4px; } Abstract: XP was obsolete by ordinary standards of computer science in 2001 when it was released and remains today inferior to other operating systems such as GNU/Linux. Part I Introduction In a meeting of a committee for information technology, the statement was made that Windows XP was obsolete when it was introduced in 2001. This [...]]]> http://mrpogson.com/2009/01/04/xp-obsolete-when-it-was-released/feed/ 0 http://mrpogson.com/2009/01/02/google-elephant-in-the-kitchen/ http://mrpogson.com/2009/01/02/google-elephant-in-the-kitchen/#comments Sat, 03 Jan 2009 00:42:20 +0000 Robert Pogson http://mrpogson.com/?p=181 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { width: 50%; padding-top: 1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float: left; margin: 4px 4px 4px 4px; } The relationship between Google and M$ is very interesting. Google operates in a different universe, one so far, far away from M$ that M$ has not been able to touch it. Google got into business on the web which M$ does not control. With a huge search/ad business, they could be a competitor of M$ [...]]]> http://mrpogson.com/2009/01/02/google-elephant-in-the-kitchen/feed/ 2 http://mrpogson.com/2009/01/02/flexibility/ http://mrpogson.com/2009/01/02/flexibility/#comments Fri, 02 Jan 2009 11:52:42 +0000 Robert Pogson http://mrpogson.com/?p=176 http://mrpogson.com/2009/01/02/flexibility/feed/ 0 http://mrpogson.com/2008/12/19/reality-what-a-concept/ http://mrpogson.com/2008/12/19/reality-what-a-concept/#comments Fri, 19 Dec 2008 15:36:57 +0000 Robert Pogson http://mrpogson.com/?p=170 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { width: 50%; padding-top: 1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float: left; margin: 4px 4px 4px 4px; } My school has a powerful server, idling, and a mess of sissy servers, also idling. Server consolidation is in order. They all run that other OS. They need a server running GNU/Linux to run various web applications. The solution: VirtualBox from Sun Microsystems. Virtual Box is a hypervisor for virtual machines. One installs VirtualBox, creates [...]]]> http://mrpogson.com/2008/12/19/reality-what-a-concept/feed/ 4 http://mrpogson.com/2008/12/17/excellent-article-at-heise-on-ltsp/ http://mrpogson.com/2008/12/17/excellent-article-at-heise-on-ltsp/#comments Wed, 17 Dec 2008 13:04:03 +0000 Robert Pogson http://mrpogson.com/?p=168 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { width: 50%; padding-top: 1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float: left; margin: 4px 4px 4px 4px; } see TFA. TFA is concise, well-written and gives tons of links to further information about LTSP, the Linux Terminal Server Project, which is a great solution for extending the power of a newer PC or server and for centrally managing PCs at home, school or in business. I first used LTSP in 2003 as implemented [...]]]> http://mrpogson.com/2008/12/17/excellent-article-at-heise-on-ltsp/feed/ 0 http://mrpogson.com/2008/12/14/if-you-like-thin-clients-stay-away-from-that-other-os/ http://mrpogson.com/2008/12/14/if-you-like-thin-clients-stay-away-from-that-other-os/#comments Sun, 14 Dec 2008 16:46:17 +0000 Robert Pogson http://mrpogson.com/2008/12/14/if-you-like-thin-clients-stay-away-from-that-other-os/ #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { width: 50%; padding-top: 1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float: left; margin: 4px 4px 4px 4px; } Thin clients are wonderful. They are: small quiet cool inexpensive fast but M$ wants to take away one of their chief advantages. This is what BILL VEGHTE said in an interview at Credit Suisse Annual Technology Conference 2008: “we’ve been very successful in making sure that if you want the full Windows experience on there, [...]]]> http://mrpogson.com/2008/12/14/if-you-like-thin-clients-stay-away-from-that-other-os/feed/ 4