simplifying networks
Roedy Green
in which computers are difficult to use, or the way the stop working
at the most crucial possible moment.
I was thinking that for example, BY DEFAULT on a home computer
network, all computers should be able to see each others printers. And
all computers should BY DEFAULT have a directory where they can leave
files for each other users in the home to find them, without having
to do anything special. You hide printers you don't want to see, or
push them to the bottom of a selection list.
A also thought that partitions should be purely logical entities, that
were mapped to physical space in a way they would automatically grow
as needed, and use the entire disk volume in as dense a way as
possible automatically.
Shutdown should behave just like hibernation so you can start up
quickly, and only on failure do a true OS reboot.
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Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products
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I mean the word proof not in the sense of the lawyers, who set two half proofs equal to a whole one, but in the sense of a mathematician, where half proof = 0, and it is demanded for proof that every doubt becomes impossible.
~ Carl Friedrich Gauss
John B. Matthews
Roedy Green <see_w...@mindprod.com.invalid> wrote:
> My partner holds me partially personally responsible for all the ways
> in which computers are difficult to use, or the way the stop working
> at the most crucial possible moment.
Well, we have that in common, except for the "partially" part.
> I was thinking that for example, BY DEFAULT on a home computer
> network, all computers should be able to see each others printers.
> And all computers should BY DEFAULT have a directory where they can
> leave files for each other users in the home to find them, without
> having to do anything special. You hide printers you don't want to
> see, or push them to the bottom of a selection list.
I've had some luck with Bonjour:
<http://www.apple.com/support/bonjour/>
[...]
> Shutdown should behave just like hibernation so you can start up
> quickly, and only on failure do a true OS reboot.
My Mac OS X and Linux computers go to sleep; they wake up; they go back
to sleep. They get rebooted for kernel updates. Windows has standby,
sleep and hibernate, none of which work very well. My favorite wake up
message is "Your system is running low on resources. You cannot log on
as a new user. Please use an account that has already been logged on."
Of course, no one is logged on.
I'm thinking of "losing" the Windows 7 update and claiming that the new
system is code named "Ubuntu". You guys play along.
Ob Java: NetBeans & Eclipse work on all platforms mentioned, for which I
am thankful.
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John B. Matthews
trashgod at gmail dot com
<http://sites.google.com/site/drjohnbmatthews>