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LTSP saves old hardware in Brazilian doctor's office

Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 60.54.103.231] on November 07, 2007 03:17 PM
First, congratulates on a successful project. There's no question about it. 2nd, I do have a question about your word "but the office had no money for new computers." may I ask is it more like "the owner is NOT willing to spend money on computer"? You explanation is not clear since you also mentioned pirated software is common scene in Brazil, implying a doctor who earns his wealth but refused to pay his share. Judging from your own description of crapware and spyware on his medical patient database computers, I am not sure what to make of it, and basically you are in to clean up his act. Another point, since you have users still using 486, my impression is that any entry-level machine today will do the job just fine. Based on my understanding, entry-level machine is really inexpensive these day, do you have an suggestion why the doctor is not buying a replacement? Perhaps as the new LTSP server, instead of the P3. I would think with the new entry-level machine, you can also prepare proper job scheduling, backup plan, recovery procedure, what not???

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