Subj : Re: Halt and Catch Fire
To   : Moondog
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Tue May 10 2022 06:45:00

-=> Moondog wrote to Nightfox <=-

 Mo> Thin clients are more of a "pay me now" form of maintaining a
 Mo> multi-user desktop environment.  It pays off in the long run when
 Mo> software patches and revisions are made, or someone's workstation
 Mo> hardware craps out, and they can walk over to any open desk in their
 Mo> department and have access to all their apps and storage.

 As an IT manager, I always thought they'd be a great solution for
 most office workers, but when we set up roaming profiles to get the
 portability aspect of thin clients, I'd get that person who'd put *all* of
 their apps on the desktop, making their roaming profile huge. It'd
 take them forever to log in over a fast ethernet connection.

 They'd complain, we'd urge them to put their files on the server, and
 they'd prefer to complain that make something work.


 (aside: I was watching old episodes of "Computer Chronicles", and
 they talked about, if you had an "internet TV", they could "blast"
 FOUR MEGABYTES work of programs to you, in less than 2 minutes! My,
 how far we've come...)



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