Posted on 05/01/2008 5:11:26 PM PDT by Swordmaker
Yes, bingo!
I explained to some IT pros in my family, that I often feel using a PC for business, is like using a pliers and screwdriver to tie your shoelaces.
Your old fashioned hands, as in "manual," work better.
What's more, as a businessman I've learned that the best computers are people.
Beguile them, and they will do half your job for you for free.
You can control pretty much anything. For $1,000 you can get unlimited Remote Desktop. No, nothing like RD in Windows. You get screen sharing including a curtain mode so users don’t see what you’re doing, and a whole lot more. Basically, between OS X and Remote Desktop you get the ability of Windows, SCOM, Norton Ghost, and a whole lot more. I suggest looking at Apple’s web site for the whole list of features for client management, including software and update pushes and client hardware and software monitoring. You can even do net boot with custom images for different groups.
It was funny, since you seem to be attacking Microsoft for simply making the feature available. Claiming that Apache is better because it’s harder to setup! Even the parent article got it wrong that a personal web server isn’t available on Windows. Typical for these threads.
I wonder if your desk is too vibraty. On my desk at home I use a keyboard tray and I know my mouse will twitch around a lot while I’m doing keyboard stuff. Some boxes don’t bother to implement the cursor disappear thing, the OS option is just step one the application guys also have to tell the OS when the user is typing, like it doesn’t look like FireFox has bothered. But if you’ve got it disappearing sometimes and not others it could be something making the mouse twitch while you type.
Good luck.
I’ve looked - not very detailed where I was. What about diverting the user’s local files to a network share, invisibly? Distributed/replicated file shares across the various offices, automatically?
This is UNIX, it was invented with things like that in mind. If you use X11 you don't even know where a program is being run from. Netboot will even make your client effectively a diskless terminal if you want to be able to centrally manage all your images on the server instead of pushing them out.
You didn’t quite answer my question (I am not a UNIX expert). Can you divert the desktop and all saved files to a network server? Invisibly? Netbooting has nothing to do with that (jesus, do people actually do that outside of a SAN?).
Yes. In UNIX, a user never needs to know where his files are. As I said, with X11 (which OS X ships with but isn't used by default) you don't even know where your programs are being run from. Every instance of everybody's word processor could be actually running on a server and they wouldn't even know it.
That's how UNIX is, totally networked long before NT was a twinkle in Gates' eye.
ROFL
GFY LMTFA
REXX rocked. It was included in IBMDos 7, (and OS/2 of course) and was as powerful a scripting tool as you'd want back in the day. What I thought was great was that you could write a Rexx script that would run on a PC, and would run unmodified on a mainframe as well.
It ticked me off to no end that MS included a REXX (Regina) interpreter with NT4, but not W2K.
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