Subj : Re: Halt and Catch Fire
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : Moondog
Date : Tue May 10 2022 15:22:00

  Re: Re: Halt and Catch Fire
  By: poindexter FORTRAN to Moondog on Tue May 10 2022 06:45 am

 > -=> 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...)
 > 
 > 
 > 
 > ... Is there something missing?

Yeah, there's always some misfit trying to use their system is a way that
breaks things.  At a previous site we had to lock down a user's profile so the
y couldn't change things enoughto get in trouble.  When they would complain
to their upper management anout us preventing from doing his job, we prove he
can do his job like everyone else can the way the system was deployed, then sh
ow the manager the number of how many times he would call to ask for things
he cannot have, or time spent undoing his mistakes. 

One day heefound a setting deep within Lotus Notes that we couldn't figure
out why it had this option.  It disabled passwords and authentication, which
was required to access his inbox, archives, and other message areas and
knowledge bases.  If you tried to fix it, it would not provide a way to
authenticate the connection.  It totally screwed up his inbox and profile on
his home drive.  Luckily dowadays with citrix and ZEnworks all that setup
stuff can be grayed out or hidden.

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