Quoting: tonRYes PXE, most of big cyber cafe (50++ PCs) use this system. Easy to maintain. But, if BSOD..... :'( Good luck to employees. :D

FYI: Some of my friends worked/working in cyber cafe. That's why I know some 'stories'.

Can you boot into a full desktop environment with that? I thought PXE boot did just enough to get a barebones boot image from a TFTP server, only to start an install on the local system. Just to try it out, I once installed Fedora on my laptop with a setup like that (PXE boot into tiny installer over TFTP, download everything else over http from a Fedora mirror), and I thought it was neat -- but booting into a complete system, and *using it* like that would be considerably neat-er!

I'm curious because I eventually want to set up a couple of thin clients around the house, connected to my main desktop, once my other ancient computers kick the bucket entirely. So far I've tried multiseat (which is pretty trivial to set up thanks to systemd), though that's limited to the number of graphics outputs one has; VNC works ok with a bit of pulseaudio twiddling to get accompanying audio, but it's really slow.

...a quick google search suggests that even Raspberry Pi 3s are capable of this. hmmm...

Sorry about the wildly off-topic post, though. Slightly more on topic: 'cyber cafe's were huge in Turkey in the early 00s; I had Starcraft-addicted cousins who practically lived in those places. They're all but extinct nowadays though.

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The comments section on their kickstarter page is still a dumpster fire. I obviously understand backers' frustration, but for some people, excoriating the devs appears to have become an end in itself. Maybe they should calm down a little -- NDS is acknowledging the fact that they've f*cked up, and they seem to be making a genuine effort to make everything right.

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As to 'looking good', I just took a peek at the website after quite some time; the new Gazelle sure looks quite a bit better than the ~5 year old model I have (gazp9). I'm curious how it feels under one's fingers, though. More sturdy, hopefully.

... and the movie is 'amusing' alright ... (I guess from the way she comports herself, she won't be satisfied at anything less than xmonad running on top of LFS.)

(Speaking of the Gazelle -- now there's space only for one 2.5" drive; on the other hand the mSATA port seems to have been replaced by an M.2 (SATA, I suppose?) port. I wasn't too happy with my Samsung 840 mSATA drive in that slot [awful heat dissipation; slowdown as a result of thermal throttling]; so this is probably an improvement.)

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Quoting: Destroyer28.8k or 33.6k modem more likely, 56k wasn't released until 1998. Even then I didn't have one until after 2000.
I'm getting this game even though it looks more modern than what we actually had.

I thought 56k came earlier; but the dates are all jumbled up in my mind. I know I went from 14.4k, to 33.6, to 56; though I can't remember at which point we got dial-up internet; before that it was mostly for BBSs, and faxing.

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Quoting: chancho_zombieUsing firefox on windows back on those days was already a nightmare, let alone Linux.

Surely you mean Netscape Navigator, not firefox.

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Quoting: tuubiNo. Make it stop. Please?

I don't see how anyone who experienced '90s Internet would want to remember it, let alone relive it. Dropsy was great, but I don't think my psyche could handle this one.

What's not to love about 56K dial-up, blinking text, and "Best Viewed with Internet Explorer"?

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Direct Rendering Manager games? I've heard of football manager games, but this is new I guess.

only joking, I love DRM free games! I also love freebies, giveaways, etc.

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'The Swords of Dil...' what?! oh, 'Ditto'... ok then

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Quoting: KetilYou can setup sudo to work without password for certain commands even if they are written in bash. I prefer that over setuid.
## In sudoers, edited with visudo
myuser ALL = (ALL) NOPASSWD: /usr/local/bin/mysudocommand

Yeah I was about to ask whether you could define a Cmnd_Alias for a shell script in sudoers to then add a NOPASSWD exception; but this approach seems to be even simpler. Does it have to come at the end of the sudoers file though?

... sorry about the off-topic spam, though.

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Quoting: NeverthelessYou can't setuid a bash script, so a binary helps there.

I wasn't aware of that; that's good to know, thanks.

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