BillW50 wrote:

> Networking isn't any near the speed of hard drives or SSDs. So this is okay
> with you? I think this would bother me a lot. Seems like too much like
> terminals on mainframes to me.

Which is how it works, but the display write instructions are greatly
compressed before network transfer. It works very well on a LAN, and
suffers a little with latency lag on a WAN. Video and accelerated game
play is out, but most other office and programming things work well. You
don't need or use anything like the network bandwidth never mind having
access to the hard drive bandwidth.

I see from your signature you have some qualifiable equipment to try
this, if that XP is the Pro version (or can be hacked to behave as
such). Simply enable Remote Desktop support in control panel and connect
with an RDC client on one of your EEE's. That may be 'mstsc.exe' if your
EEE's run Windows or a 'Remote Desktop Connect' Linux app.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal_Services

Of course, the 'solution' is to have a server variant of windows running
with multiple terminal sessions, and have VPN configured to keep it
secure outside. But as performance goes for me it's not a worry.

It's a win for reliability in a household with many (ab-)users, and
hardware requirements per user are very low.

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Adrian C