At 11:22 AM 1/18/2007, lewcary wrote:
>Folks:
> I tried last year to prep a Toshiba laptop to run vnmrj2.1b. The
> goal was to use this laptop to teach vj in a classroom using the
> overhead video projector. First, the group that loaned the laptop
> for teaching purposes loaded kubuntu. A great flavor, but not rhel
> 3, or 4. We tried naively to load vj anyway. After solving several
> problems we called it off. I got the bright idea of loading the
> same version of rhel that I had on the spectrometers. Don't laugh.
> The spectrometers have intel quasi 64 bit processors. We also have
> two home brew workstation running rhel4 just fine (they are true 64bit amd's).
> What do you recommend in a laptop with a reasonable price that
> is compatible with rhel3, or 4 and vj2.1? And, do you know it works?
How about my method of using an X-server on the laptop with whatever
OS and SSHing into a spectrometer or other workstation running Varian
software, then starting an X11 session? A slow Pentium III works fine for this.
Best wishes to all for 2007. Looks like no chance I'll get funding
for ENC. Heck, I can't even get funding to fix my newest spectrometer.
Bill
William C. Stevens, Ph.D. Director
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Facility
Southern Illinois University
Carbondale, IL 62901
618-453-6498 voice / -6408 fax / 521-9892 cell
http://opie.nmr.siu.edu
Received on Fri Jan 19 2007 - 12:48:52 MST