a paper I can't find...

[John Summerfield]

Alan Cox wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Nov 2007 16:39:46 +0900
> John Summerfield <debian at herakles.homelinux.org> wrote:
> 
>> Frank Cox wrote:
>>> On Mon, 26 Nov 2007 22:35:39 -0600
>>> Frank Cox <theatre at sasktel.net> wrote:
>>>  
>>>> You don't need a mainframe for that.  Take a look at http://www.ltsp.org
>> I don't think Tim was referring to thin clients.
>>
>> An insurance company Daughter's working for's rolling out thin clients. 
>> She's not enthusiastic, she wants her real PC.
> 
> At the point of change is always the wrong time to evaluate reactions -
> human nature will always say "different == bad".

otoh a bad change can be hard to unroll. I have used some Evectras. 
While not exactly thin, they're cheap and upgrades are limited:
1 SDRAM slot, and it's picky. Standard is 128 Mb, 256 is the max but it 
didn't like the 256 SDRAM I had on hand.
No PCI slots.
i810 chipset.

She's managerial, head office and talks to the board. And she might 
actually need something not too basic.



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