Re: OT: Computers

On Nov 5 2008 1:36 PM, Kyle T. Jones wrote:

of course, if it's worth the time and effort, you can make any program
portable.

I was told, for instance (by some newsgroup know-it-alls) that it was
impossible to rig photoshop or dreamweaver to run off a flash drive...
all I'm saying is that they were wrong.

Cheers.

PS: perhaps one of the shifts will be having PCs with locked hard drives
that just contain the basics: the OS, a browser, etc... stuff that you
wouldn't be able to change, but wouldn't nec. need to change... then
running all the other programs off a removable drive of some sort, that
you could change.

at least there, if you get a virus on the main drive, you just shut it
off and on and it's history.

Yup I know about portable apps and do use a few. What I may lose in speed
I more than make up in not having things all over the OS.

One of the somewhat newer trends in the business world is desktop
virtualization. I was involved in a fairly large project a few years back
to provide a remote work environment for about 400 offshore programmers,
but a key concept of the project was that none of the data could leave the
US facility. This was accomplished by vmware and virtual XP desktops.
Even further are programs like VMWare ACE which basically streams a
virtual desktop image to a machine and is fully customizable and
administered on the back end.

I've also worked with several large Citrix environments where the
workstation is just a dumbterm, which is Windows CE or XP embedeed, a
browser and a Citrix client, and in most cases, not even a hard drive (at
least one used for storage).

Should be interesting to see how Win2k8 server impacts things with some
built in virtualization.

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