melsonr@aragorn.rgmhome.net (Robert Melson) writes: > Wes Groleau <groleau+news@freeshell.org> writes: > > Robert Melson wrote: > >> think applications like phpGedView, The Next Generation and, to > > > > Much as I like both of those, I have to > > agree with Dr. Leverich--they really don't > > offer any major innovation. They're just > > improvements on the user interface of the > > same basic thing. > > I don't disagree. I very much like pGV, myself, but > am certainly aware that overall it's not really a > ground breaking application. Still, it does illustrate > the point I was attempting to make - all the capability > resides in/on the server, making it unnecessary for the > local machine to install anything more forbidding than > a browser. This, I think, is where things are probably > heading <waves hands> in genealogy as well as in other > areas. This is akin to saying that terrorists are well-financed and fanatical so we might as well just let them win.

In article <20070720.7998798.A351@mojaveg.lsan.mdsg-pacwest.com>, mojaveg@mojaveg.lsan.mdsg-pacwest.com (Everett M. Greene) writes: > melsonr@aragorn.rgmhome.net (Robert Melson) writes: <snip> >> I don't disagree. I very much like pGV, myself, but >> am certainly aware that overall it's not really a >> ground breaking application. Still, it does illustrate >> the point I was attempting to make - all the capability >> resides in/on the server, making it unnecessary for the >> local machine to install anything more forbidding than >> a browser. This, I think, is where things are probably >> heading <waves hands> in genealogy as well as in other >> areas. > > This is akin to saying that terrorists are well-financed and > fanatical so we might as well just let them win. Eh? How do you arrive at that conclusion? As the old ads for "The National Enquirer" had it, "inquiring minds want to know." Bob Melson -- Robert G. Melson | Rio Grande MicroSolutions | El Paso, Texas ----- "People unfit for freedom---who cannot do much with it---are hungry for power." ---Eric Hoffer

Everett M. Greene wrote: > melsonr@aragorn.rgmhome.net (Robert Melson) writes: > >>Wes Groleau <groleau+news@freeshell.org> writes: >> >>>Robert Melson wrote: >>> >>>>think applications like phpGedView, The Next Generation and, to >>> >>>Much as I like both of those, I have to >>>agree with Dr. Leverich--they really don't >>>offer any major innovation. They're just >>>improvements on the user interface of the >>>same basic thing. >> >>I don't disagree. I very much like pGV, myself, but >>am certainly aware that overall it's not really a >>ground breaking application. Still, it does illustrate >>the point I was attempting to make - all the capability >>resides in/on the server, making it unnecessary for the >>local machine to install anything more forbidding than >>a browser. This, I think, is where things are probably >>heading <waves hands> in genealogy as well as in other >>areas. > > > This is akin to saying that terrorists are well-financed and > fanatical so we might as well just let them win. Sun is going this way with some of their office systems in effective returning to the data terminal as a "thin client" ... server-based, server-centric and network computing. eg HP Compaq t5720 Thin Client with Genuine Windows XP Embedded. The t5720 delivers desktop-like features and support for local applications. This unit is the ideal choice for businesses featuring the AMD Geode NX 1500 processor with 512 MB of Flash memory and either 256 MB or 512 MB of DDR RAM standard. Sun Ray 270 Virtual Display Client - Overview Anywhere you can install a Sun Ray thin client device instead of a PC, you can potentially save money, reduce energy usage, and improve security. a Sun V20 Server running Solaris 10 for Sparc, and two Sun Ray 2FS clients, each with a single 20-inch LCD monitor. The network between the server and the Sun Ray clients was a dedicated 100Mbps segment, with another NIC on the server linked to the overall lab network. With the server running, powering on a Sun Ray client would bring up a Solaris Desktop log-in quite quickly, and from there, the experience was more or less like working on a local system, including stereo sound and USB device support. http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/08/10/33TCsunray_1.html my internet is 2 to 6 mb/sec with 20/20 available if I wish to pay no point because the route across USA from east to west is much slower than that about midnight in New York and all the tracerts to aol.com cnn.com give time outs ancestry.com is very quick I don't know if they now have a european server farm images seem subjectively much quicker this summer than laat their networked trees are proving very popular with newbies who are also discovering tribalpages so instead of gedcom a high tech xml server and social networking Hugh W -- a wonderful artist in Denmark http://www.ingerlisekristoffersen.dk/ Beta blogger http://snaps4.blogspot.com/ photographs and walks old blogger GENEALOGE http://hughw36.blogspot.com/ MAIN BLOG