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- So what's a smart display?
- Basically it's a graphics terminal whose entire operations are controlled from the server. Bootp, now DHCP, was originally developed to allow diskless devices to boot an OS from a network server. Thus Sun's ELC diskless workstation, circa 1988, ran a full SunOS implementation locally, but loaded it from a central...
- Tags: NCD, Sun Microsystems Inc., server, Explora Pro, Smart Display
- Blog posts 2005-09-23
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- Quick Timer PPC (zip)
- Quick Timer PPC is an application for Pocket PC to control NCD ProXR relay boards. High resolution timer and quick setting make it easy to use for light control science project, laboratory experimenter, and home automation. It supports 8-relay channels. Each channel has a control panel separately. Relays can be...
- Tags: Serial Port, Serial Port Tool, Pocket PC, Handhelds, Hardware
- Software downloads 2008-08-26
- Learning from Walmart
- Learning from WalmartLower cost, much more flexibility- no help desk needed- lets you put sysadmins into user groups, reporting to user managers- eliminates most security and processing failure risks- gives you OS independent access to software - eliminates user impact and costs of evergreen policiesHow would SUN Ray help?ntSmart displays?"put...
- Tags: Keyboards, Operating systems, Sun Ray, Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Sun Microsystems Inc., IT Development, Smart Display, Microsoft Corp., Murph
- Discussion threads 2008-07-28
- Quick Timer High (zip)
- Quick Timer High is useful software for relay boards of NCD ProXR. Quick setting and high resolution makes it easy to use for light control, science project, laboratory experimenter and home automation. It supports 16-relay channels. Each channel has a control panel separately. Relays can be turned on/off manually and...
- Tags: Serial Port, Serial Port Tool
- Software downloads 2008-07-28
- Costing Sun Ray vs Wintel
- Costing Sun Ray vs WintelSo, you like Sun Ray, Yes? KiddingSeriously, interesting article--Sun Ray is looking better and better!There are so many good reasons to consider using Thin Client. Sun Ray just reinforces that.A few questionsWhy did you so much oversize the client. why use E7200 core duo ? why...
- Tags: Servers, server, VMware Inc., Sun Ray, Costing Sun Ray, Sun Microsystems Inc., Wintel
- Discussion threads 2008-07-02
- Nanorobots to improve health care
- Using nanorobots to deliver drugs and fight diseases is not a new idea check here or there. Of course, nanorobots floating inside our bodies to improve our health are still years away. However, an international team of American and Australian researchers is developing a nanorobot hardware architecture for medical defense...
- Tags: Software, 3D, Protein, Biomedical, Health Care, Hardware Architecture, Healthcare, Nanotechnology, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-05-19
- Questioning IT
- Questioning ITLose the rhetoric = better articleYou started out strong, but you lose everyone when you slide into what appears to be a vendetta against CIPS. What does "their Windows only website and addiction to hiding important email in floods of junk" have to do with business continuity? ...
- Tags: Data centers, Storage, disaster recovery, Questioning IT, IBM SVC, information technology
- Discussion threads 2008-04-18
- Relay Timer Lite (zip)
- Relay Timer Lite is a useful tool for NCD ProXR relay controller boards. It supports 1 board with 8 relays. Each relay can be programmed separately with multiple timers. Relay can be turned on/off manually from GUI easily. It can detect all existed COM ports automatically. As specialized software that...
- Tags: Relay, Serial Port Tool, ActiveX/COM/COM+/DCOM, Corporate Governance, Middleware, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Enterprise Software, Software
- Software downloads 2008-04-03
- Relay Timer (zip)
- Relay Timer is a powerful tool for NCD ProXR relay controller boards. It supports up to 16 relay boards. Each board has 16 relays. Each relay can be programmed separately and turned on/off manually. The status of all relays can be shown. It can control the relays with very precise...
- Tags: Board, Relay, Serial Port Tool, Relay Timer, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law
- Software downloads 2008-03-24
- The future of the Internet (1)
- The future of the Internet (1)Re: Health risks of wirelessThe UK seems to be the first place where these concerns about wireless radiation came to light. It began with cell phones, and more recently the concern has expanded to wi-fi. There are already places where cell phones are banned. I...
- Tags: Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, cell phone, phone, radiation, wireless, Internet, video
- Discussion threads 2008-02-07
- Comm Operator NCD Edition (zip)
- Comm Operator NCD Edition is a simplified edition of Comm Operator It is a custom-made edition for relay controller boards of National Control Devices NCD. Comm Operator NCD Edition us a powerful utility for controller boards of National Control Devices. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
- Tags: Serial Port, Edition, Comm Operator NCD Edition
- Software downloads 2008-01-16
- A call from a former colleague
- A call from a former colleagueAh yes, the late 80'sIt was just me - and a ComputerVision "low boy" server in a cubicle. The heat it put out was overwhelming - but I took it in stride. I was basically told - there is the computer, make it work. In...
- Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Operating systems, Desktops, information technology, emulator, Internet Service Provider, Unix, server, PC
- Discussion threads 2007-09-18
- Sharpening that personal productivity axe
- As many of you will remember we had an extensive discussion here last week about my belief that externally imposed work processes ultimately lead to standardised ways of thinking about those work processes. Kind of a Nixonian thing: grab them by their work processes, and pretty soon their hearts and...
- Tags: What users care about, Unanswered questions, Enterprise Policy, Apple
- Blog posts 2007-07-19
- Trying to clarify the Sun Ray difference
- Frequent contributor Erik Engbrecht had this to say last week in response to my comment that the Sun Ray does no processing and isn't, therefore, a client-server client: thin, fat, or otherwise: Smart, Thick, Thin, DisplayIt's all word games. Depending on how you define...
- Tags: Sun, Security, Linux, Hardware, Government, Deploying Sun Rays, Enterprise Policy
- Blog posts 2007-07-17
- Smart displays and user productivity
- As regular readers know, I maintain that using a Unix/Smart display architecture allows organizations to centralise processing, devolve control to users, and gain significant productivity benefits over client-server users. Today's rant, and tomorrow's too, actually; is going to be in defence of this position. First, lets clarify terms. A smart...
- Tags: Smart Display
- Blog posts 2006-05-24
- The Windows Vista Developer Story: Web Services on Devices
- Web Services on Devices WSD extends the existing Web services architecture to resource-constrained devices, such as PDAs, computer peripherals, computing appliances, and consumer electronics. WSD is one of four technologies that comprise the Network Connected Device NCD. WSD is Microsoft's implementation of the Devices Profile for Web Services DPWS standard,...
- Tags: Web, Web Service, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows, WSD, Web Services, Channel Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing
- White papers 2006-04-01
- Bring back my WABI, to me, to me
- Away back in pre-history, actually in the days when the 33Mhz i80486 stalked the land as king of the PC world, I got an odd little assignment: negotiate for, and then set-up and run, a 30 user Resumix resume search and retrieval system for a former employer's Dallas office. ...
- Tags: Microsoft Office, Servers, Wabi, Microsoft Corp., wine
- Blog posts 2006-02-23
- How to deploy Windows software on Sun Ray
- Here's the core bit from the question I got: I'm doing some research for my Unix/Linux Administration class, and I'm wondering about Smart Displays. I'm looking for more information on how to run Windows and Unix programs on them simultaneously and I'm assuming that there...
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Microsoft Windows, Sun Ray, Unix
- Blog posts 2006-02-10
- The Unix business architecture
- Today's IBM mainframe represents the continuation of a computing revolution that began with the application of ideas from the 1877 Jacquard loom to the 1890 US census. That evolution has focused on counting things, usually after the fact, usually within Finance, and usually cost justified on clerical replacement. The other...
- Tags: Unix, Unix Business Architecture
- Blog posts 2005-09-21
- Sun's new $1100 thin client: Going once. Going twice...do we have any takers?
- Just last week, in what I figured to be a foreshadowing of some sort of Sun Ray announcement (Sun Rays are Sun's thin client), Sun president and COO Jonathan Schwartz blogged about ARPU economics and how they'd drive the cost of a PC down to zero. Then, this week, the announcement came....
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Ray
- Blog posts 2004-12-14
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