[NTLUG:Discuss] to sum it up...things have come full circle.
David Neeley
dbneeley at yahoo.com
Fri May 11 22:46:15 CDT 2001
Mike,
Anyone who has set up a network as you describe is, to put it baldly,
incompetent or has his hands tied by management who just doesn't care about
issues like employee satisfaction and job productivity.
When Star 6 is finally released and they get rid of that stupid integrated
desktop, it'll be a vast improvement.
Meanwhile, though, some of the more enlightened strategies for diskless
workstations use operating systems and apps downloaded on bootup into
silicon disks (RAM drives). Then, the apps are run from that part of
memory, but all files opened and saved are done on the server.
Only when your system crashes do you have to download the application a
second time during any session.
This way, you don't load the server up with both file/print services and
application services. Multiple users on a central machine using a large
application suite can become extremely slow, too. Much better just to dump
the app down onto the RAMdisk, IMHO. I have used all the above variations
here and there, and thus far this looks best.
Of course, I wouldn't think it'd be too cool to try to set it up to dump
the entire MS Office suite into a RAMdisk at once. Few people would
actually need that, anyway.
David
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