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The Lounge What is on Your Mind? Thoughts on Dystopian Future as we know it! Post 303015316 by Coding Coolie on Monday 2nd of April 2018 06:22:07 PM

04-02-2018

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Thoughts on Dystopian Future Likely?

Greetings Fellow NIX'ers,

For a while now I've been pondering the (to Me) Dystopian possibilities of "Cloud Computing", Web Apps
(Pay Per Each Use) of course, and... the Most Troubling of All:

The possible time when we will not be allowed to own a "Real" computer, only some silly little thing that can
barely run a web browser in order to "Consume" those Web Apps! I say "allowed", but also imply that Availability
of decent hardware may be threatened by the forces that are trying to make a "better future" for us all.

The same forces that are engineering this madness are of course behind Streaming Everything as well!
I am by no means against mobile devices, I have a smart phone myself that has been pretty cool.
What really does cause me concern as above is that the PTB might try to infringe upon our right to Own
Real Computers, Program them, and Distribute our own Free / Open Source software! Understandably many
typical non-NIX users may not Care about this stuff at all since they are used to being Told their future fate by
corporate entities and various interests.

In 1993 with some years as a developer, I discovered a reasonable facsimile of UNIX(tm) that I could use at home!
That is to say a distro I didn't have to completely create from scratch, Imagine that enormous stack of floppies!
Additionally, I've worked with SunOS, Digital UX, the BSD's and most Linux distros.
I have not looked back, ya gotta love the Freedom to breathe here!

Does any of this seem like a possibility to Anyone else, or... just my Imagination ?
That said, I'm primarily interested in the NIX' users, admins and devs thoughts here.
What sort of time line do you think we are looking at before the hardware vendors get the "Memo":
"Only Mobile devices without dev tools are Permissible!" I'd greatly appreciate hearing anyone's thoughts!

Before I forget I want to add what a Cool place this seems to be! There appear to be lots of "Adults" with
real stuff to say and share! That alone is something missing from "Most" other communities, IMHO!

Sincerely,
The Coding Coolie ;^)

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pdweb

pdweb(1M)																 pdweb(1M)

NAME

       pdweb - start the HP-UX Peripheral Device tool, part of the System Management Homepage Web interface.

SYNOPSIS

       Path:

DESCRIPTION

       The HP-UX Peripheral Device tool (pdweb) can be used to easily and quickly view I/O devices and OLRAD cards.  It helps manage hot pluggable
       PCI slots on systems that support adding and replacing cards without rebooting.	On all HP-UX systems, will display the I/O devices and can
       be used to (re)create device files for a selected device.

       The  HP-UX  Peripheral  Device  tool  user  interface uses a Web browser.  Executing the command, with DISPLAY variable set and without any
       options performs the following tasks:

	      o  start the System Management Homepage Web server and

	      o  start a Web client (browser)

       An attempt will be made to connect to the browser specified with the BROWSER environment  variable,  or	Mozilla,  or  Netscape.   The  Web
       browser	will  be  displayed  on the X server defined by the DISPLAY environment variable.  If a running browser is found, it will be used,
       otherwise a new session will be initiated.  This will only happen if the browser process is running on the same system used to exectue  the
       pdweb command (defined by the DISPLAY variable), unless the option is used.

   Options
       The recognizes the following options:

       Opens the terminal interface for Cards and Devices regardless of the
		      current setting of the DISPLAY environment variable.

       Forces a client browser to be used in less secure ways.
		      Two security features are overridden by the option.

		      The  option  forces  the	client	browser  to be used or started, even if the X-traffic between the X-server and the Mozilla
		      browser is not secure.

		      When is invoked by the option is used.

		      Only a priviledged user (root) can execute When used with the option, a temporary login bypass key will be  generated.   The
		      bypass key allows the user to access the Web interface without having to provide login information again.

		      Only  use  this option if you are sure the network traffic is secure between the host where Mozilla is running, and the host
		      in the DISPLAY variable.

		      The browser uses URL http://hostname:2301/ and you may paste this into any browser if a browser does  open  with	the  pdweb
		      command.

   Online Help
       Once the HP-UX Peripheral Device tool is started, the online help provides details on how to use the tool.

RETURN VALUES

       Upon completion, returns one of the following values:

       Successful.

       An error occurred.

AUTHORS

       pdweb was developed by Hewlett-Packard

SEE ALSO

       hpsmh(1M), smhstartconfig(1M), olrad(1M), ioscan(1M), insf(1M)

																	 pdweb(1M)