Re: Free-lance - office move stuff-o-rama
On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 16:58, BruceG wrote:
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> From: "Mike Dresser" <mdresser_l@windsormachine.com>
> To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 3:45 PM
> Subject: Re: Free-lance - office move stuff-o-rama
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> > On Wed, 12 Nov 2003, BruceG wrote:
> >
> > > 3. Move PCs to new building. This is just a short walk, so they could be
> > > carried.
> > > Insert floppy in drive to prevent failure. (is there a command to
> park
> > > the hard drive?). Move the PC, keyboard, monitor, cables and mouse.
[big snip]
>
> Finally - wireless is only acting as a bridge, as the old building is
> pre-revolutionary war they don't want to do a lot of drilling. So it's
> wireless between groups of PCs, the wired to the desktop. The payroll PC
> talks across the wireless bridge sending and receiving data from banks. The
> bridges are not running encryption. So - wired is required, it's just asking
> for trouble to have wireless LAN access on PCs that need to be secure.
Others disagree, but I totally agree with your thinking here.
> I'd recommend Linux and OpenOffice for the desktops - but don't think that
> would fly. I would like to grab a spare PC and set it up so folks could get
> familiar, though. Kind of a kiosk PC.
How about OOo on Windows? If I was a User, I wouldn't like that
big jump either.
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