Posts tagged image XP
In praise of slightly fat Nettop boxe...
So what’s a Nettop? Think of the Netbook PCs, inexpensive $350 low powered 10″ screen PCs that are convenient but not very fast. Take the screen and keyboard away and you’ve got a Nettop, except they have better quality, higher performance components, designed to a price point, but for longevity. Insert a 32 or 64GB SSD dri [...]
From the darkside to the light
So here’s the problem… IT is run ragged, constantly, being reactive to the less than happy employees. IT doesn’t have time, money or energy to proactively develop plans to implement new ways to enhance the business. They are spending their time putting out fires. Is it any wonder than real firemen get a pension at 50; they must be too tired a [...]
Tales from the darkside
Although this letter is fictitious, it reflects what we hear all of the time…
“Sir:
We have 250 desktops running a mix of Macintosh, XP and Windows 7 PCs. We lease and rotate them every 3-4 years so we’re running reliable and uniform products for our employees. About 10% do video editing and design work, 5% use Macs, and th [...]
Getting a broker without going broke,...
So what’s a broker, or connection broker to be accurate? A broker is software that connects an instance of Windows 7 or XP running on the server, aka host to a specific users “PC.” In other words, in the old style way of running a network you have 100 users who have self contained PCs. When the PC switches on the PC and logs [...]
Waiting for Godot, part II
Waiting for Godot was a play written by Samuel Beckett about some itinerants waiting around for a character named Godot. While I don’t want to explain the plot, I will say that the characters spend time twiddling their thumbs waiting for something to happen. That same twiddling occurs while you’re rebuilding your user’s XP o [...]