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Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 13:22:04 -0800
From: Andrew Sharp <andy.sharp@lsi.com>
To: "Hardiman, Richard" <Richard.Hardiman@lsi.com>
Subject: Re: desktop environment
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Yes, I'm aware of this.  The disconnect is that we're not taking away,
or doing away with, the machine down here.  We're just putting a real
development desktop under their fingers like we should have all along.

In the fullness of time we will do away with these desktops down here,
and they can just use regular clients in the lab to do their work.

On Tue, 9 Feb 2010 13:54:11 -0700 "Hardiman, Richard"
<Richard.Hardiman@lsi.com> wrote:

> Hey Andy,
> Here was the last request from David Olien.
> 
> ________________________________
> From: Olien, David
> Sent: Monday, January 11, 2010 9:42 AM
> To: Hardiman, Richard
> Cc: Phelps, David; Ariyamannil, Jobi
> Subject: desktop environment
> 
> 
> Hi Richard,
> 
> I know we talked last week with Andy about getting a Linux desktop up
> here in Beaverton for me, and one for David Phelps.  I've been doing
> some more research.  The network connection into the site here at
> Beaverton is 8megabits per second.  So maximum transfer rates I could
> expect over the network would probably be around 500kilobytes per
> second.  That's kind of slow in my opinion.  But I doubt anyone has
> the budget to change that, and even If they did it wouldn't happen
> quickly.
> 
> I've also found that the docking station for my laptop WILL support
> two external monitors (one VGA and one DVI).
> 
> So I've concluded the best approach is to just use my laptop as an
> x-terminal, and use VPN to connect to a Linux machine down there in
> Campbell.
> 
> I hope you haven't jumped through too many hoops yet getting me a
> desktop up here.
> 
> Looking at Chris Greiveldinger machine down there at Campbell, it
> looks to be a two-core system with 1 Gigabyte of RAM?  Is this a real
> machine, or is it a VM?  I think he could benefit from having more
> RAM.  But that's just a guess, without having any real experience
> with your build environment, and all.
> 
> So if you could make some arrangements for me to have a development
> Linux machine there in Campbell,  I think that's the way for me to
> go.  I THINK Dave Phelps will go with that too, but I'll let him talk
> for himself.  I've copied him on this email.
> 
> Let me know how that goes?  I hope to do some real work this week.
> 
> Sorry if I've cased any hassles for you.
> Dave Olien
