Applianz just recently released a beta client for Macs with Tiger. It automatically connects Mac users to a Windows VM running the commercial software application in the network appliance and maps across their GUI, printing and file exports.
The company I work for Applianz has been doing something very similar for several years. Applianz creates network appliances for large commercial software companies using a technique of every user running on a seperate VM including the server. Instead of downloading the whole VM to each user the system just connects them thin client but the idea of one disposable VM per user is the same. At least for our application the it works extremely well and allows user's virtual PCs to be disposed and recreated at will so that users have a perfect experience every time they use the system.
3389 is the default port but you can change it if you want to. q187623 article at Microsoft explains how to alter the server side. The XP client does not support non-standard ports by default but I have discovered that if you edit.rdp file and add "server port:i:5555" or whatever port you want to use to the end of the file it will work fine.
Here's a related idea. Why not use all these millions of keystrokes to generate power for your PC. Could you power your laptop just by typing on it hard enough if it had some sort of energy capture device in the key mechanisms? Has this been tried before?
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Applianz just recently released a beta client for Macs with Tiger. It automatically connects Mac users to a Windows VM running the commercial software application in the network appliance and maps across their GUI, printing and file exports.
The company I work for Applianz has been doing something very similar for several years. Applianz creates network appliances for large commercial software companies using a technique of every user running on a seperate VM including the server. Instead of downloading the whole VM to each user the system just connects them thin client but the idea of one disposable VM per user is the same. At least for our application the it works extremely well and allows user's virtual PCs to be disposed and recreated at will so that users have a perfect experience every time they use the system.
3389 is the default port but you can change it if you want to. q187623 article at Microsoft explains how to alter the server side. The XP client does not support non-standard ports by default but I have discovered that if you edit .rdp file and add "server port:i:5555" or whatever port you want to use to the end of the file it will work fine.
Here's a related idea. Why not use all these millions of keystrokes to generate power for your PC. Could you power your laptop just by typing on it hard enough if it had some sort of energy capture device in the key mechanisms? Has this been tried before?