[Lancaster] Re: the kitchen network.

Martyn Welch welchm at comp.lancs.ac.uk
Mon Jul 26 11:23:27 BST 2004


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On Monday 26 Jul 2004 11:43, Ken Hough wrote:

> Can't get away from the fact that users must go to burner box to
> load/retrieve CDs, so is there any real need to or indeed any benefit in
> making it a headless box? -- apart from not needing a VDU, etc.
>

Nobody can use the burner machine as a workstation.

Users can author there CDs from the machine they have been using - no need to 
transfer files separately (This will stump some people funnily enough).

Already built graphical front end, which seems to have it's empthesis on 
simplicity...

It's already been written and works in a way compatible with our setup 
straight out of the box as far as I can tell.

I like it. :-)

Martyn
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