best office/home office setup - the telecommuter

[Alan Johnson]

On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 3:17 PM, Drew Van Zandt<drew.vanzandt at gmail.com> wrote:
> I find that a desktop is better than a laptop, for the home office bit at
> least.  I don't have to wait for boot/shutdown, keep dragging power supplies
> out, etc.

<OT>
I apologize in advance if I am preaching to the quire and this is just
a super-low-power appliance-like machine that runs all your edge
routing and house hold systems while you are away, but Dude!  Shut
that thing off when you are not using it!  Global Warming, Peak Oil,
national security...  All of those are relevant, but in case you
"choose" not to "believe" in any two of them, any one of them should
be enough to get you to change your habits.  If you don't have kids,
do it for my kids, eh?
</OT>

Ubuntu is making great strides in boot time.  Also, I saw my Ibex boot
time cut in about half (discarding BIOS and GRUB pause) when I
installed a Kingston SATA SSD in my laptop running Ibex.  (SSD is also
good for reducing energy use.)  Jaunty is quicker, but does not like
my hardware.  I have high hopes for Karmic Koala which is suppose to
load in less than 10 seconds off disk (YMMV).  Just enough time to
plug in your power cable if you are quick. ;-)

-- 
Alan Johnson
alan at datdec.com