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Jetway PT800TWIN - Dual User Hardware

Posted by timothy on from the for-both-of-me dept.

Steve K writes "Cost-cutting in IT. Something the beancounters are always looking at, no doubt. Jetway have attempted to provide an answer -- allow two users to utilise one machine at once. HEXUS.net have a review: 'The PT800TWIN is an odd beast. While it's admirable that Jetway have engineered it with MagicTwin support in mind, to go after the low-cost/budget/TCO crowd, you have to wonder about the implementation. It needs Windows XP, adding cost. A large proportion of applications released on Windows require you to have two licenses to run concurrently on a MagicTwin system, adding cost. While you save money on the hardware, you don't on the software.' Not really a revolutionary product, but perhaps it can be taken somewhere with a little more work."

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  3. Why does everyone improperly use have vs. has? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    This is really sad. People should learn that it is "a" company and "a" website. This company "has" done something, not "have". This website "has" info... Too many people cannot get this straight. Not even the editors of Slashdot!! Slashdot "has" terrible editors...

  4. Not very fault tollerant by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    This proposal does not address the virtually dead clients if NFS times out. The beauty of a true stateless Linux is that everything would reside in RAM (no NFS or HD) and would get its image from a boot server. This is exactly what the Arizona State University West Library does. They have a clean image booted remotely into a RAMdisk in ro mode while using CRAMFS. The image boots to a GUI in less than 60 seconds and the client does not die when a network timeout is encountered. Using a RAMdisk is extremely fast too.

  5. is that like double-side dildo? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    one in my pussy
    one in my bum
    double the pleasure
    double the fun

  6. you fail 1t!? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    best. Individuals took precedence

  7. mod u4 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The fac7S and