Greg Twyford wrote: > Peter Machell wrote: > SNIP
> Winconnect is a TS technology, I presume? > >> and if implemented in larger practices, properly, needs a very >> >>> good server >> >> I'd say every practice needs a very good server, and large TS >> installations need more than one. > > I've yet to see a medical centre prepared to spring for two good > servers. One is hard enough. I had a win in April with a HP G4 series > bundle with 3.2GHz Xeon, dual processor capability, SCSI RAID 1 and > redundant everything for $5k. Goes very well, we'll see what happens > with MD3, though. > >> and reliable, not moribund, clients with good graphics, as >> >>> Horst has suggested. >> >> I don't understand - we need nothing more than basic graphics on thin >> clients or workstations - can you elaborate? > > Old S3 graphics cards and five year old 15" monitors with colour > shifts, lousy contrast, small screen area, etc. still look like shit > running under TS. > >> Also, the advantages of TS diminish further if you >> >>> are using a client-server application in the first place. >> > I'm not convinced with the old client routine and the need for > redundant servers to do it properly. I'll have a look at Winconnect if > I get a chance though. I know David Guest is in love with his EPIA > boards and designed thin-client boxes, but I can't get enthusistic. No that's Horst you're thinking of Greg. Thin clients and fat servers are perhaps useful for older style applications like MD2 but their main advantage is for easing the burden of tech support. We are using client machines that are perhaps 6 years old but they are at least P3s. We boot them from the network card as per my presentation at 640cc, http://ozdoc.mine.nu/thinstation/. If one dies you just throw it out and put a replacement in. Ex-lease at the auctions they are about $100. All the machine has to do is run a X server and sixteen bit colour at 1024 * 768 is sufficient for most. (In fact the older ones complain when it gets beyond 800*600.) I agree with you about about the screens, keyboards and mice. They are all LCD, new and optical. It works well but it works best in bigger networks where the marginal cost of an additional machine falls to a few hundred dollars in hardware and less than 30 minutes in techie time. Almost all configuration can be done remotely. By the sounds of it this does not apply in your setting. David -- "UFW. Deb does linux."
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