google-earth anybody?

[Gene Heskett]

On Monday 30 July 2012 16:05:44 Liam Proven did opine:

> On 30 July 2012 20:27, Ric Moore <wayward4now at gmail.com> wrote:
> > You're wanting to have google earth running on your milling machine
> > setup?? I think that would blow the dickens out of "latency" overall.
> > It's a blooming monster that traditionally eats up cpu and ram like a
> > junkyard goat.
> 
> Yes, I did wonder about that myself...
> 
> > But, bottom line, you need accelerated graphics, and a bunch of vram
> > would help. Nouveau still doesn't do that. I bought an nVidia card
> > with 2 gigs of vram for under $50. <cackles> Ric
> 
> Also true.
> 
> IOW, have a CNC control machine & a separate desktop / surfing box.
> Far more sensible.

I am, but whats wrong with running the same distro on all 3 or 4 machines?  
None of this BS about ubuntu does it this way, while pclos and mandriva do 
it this way, and both swear on a 6 foot stack of bibles their's is the one 
true way.  That just adds to the stench of BS...

Cheers, Gene
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