On Tuesday 04 March 2003 04:31 pm, G�tz Waschk wrote: > Am Dienstag, 4. M�rz 2003, 13:24:15 Uhr MET, schrieb Leon Brooks: >> Sun have this really cool feature for their SunRay and similar >> workstations which allows you to log in to any random terminal with a >> card; when you pull out your card your session is either suspended or >> shovelled into /dev/null; when you plug in elsewhere it comes back up >> again.
>> To do this, the apps must be able to cope with different kinds of screens >> (resolution and colour depth at least) and changing those on the fly. But >> as you've exemplified here, not all apps will co-operate. > I have to sit in front of a SunRay terminal all the day. It doesn't > work that well. Sometimes your session disappears without giving you a > chance to save your stuff. Also all the apps keep running when you > remove your card. This generates so much load on the server, that only > the employees of the institute could keep their cards, the students > had to return them. Also, I don't know if the sessions really adapt to > different screen sizes, as all our monitors have the same size :-) This is actually an encouraging thing. Perhaps Linux and particularly Mandrake Linux could be a better Solaris than Solaris. (-: Cheers; Leon
