[Lancaster] Re: the kitchen network.

[Andy Baxter]

On Monday 26 July 2004 11:23, Martyn Welch wrote:
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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.
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> Nobody can use the burner machine as a workstation.
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> 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).
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> Already built graphical front end, which seems to have it's empthesis on
> simplicity...
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> 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.
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> I like it. :-)

seconded. or whatever. i like it also. (As long as the config isn't to hard to 
get right.)

If we have a box with keyboard and monitor, then it needs a chair and desk 
space for someone to use it. Then it's either have it just for burning, which 
is a waste of this space, or for multiple uses, in which case people wanting 
to use it for burning will have to wait around for someone else to finish 
their stuff. A headless burner machine can just be plugged in at the end of 
the row with a sign on the front.

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Thanks, andy.