I don't know about everyone else, but I find it interesting to get a certain amount of background. Even if you know most of what is being said, you might still read something interesting. I don't really mind waffly articles myself, I just read through them faster.
Yes this is a long article, but there is a lot of information in there, and a lot of different areas being addressed. If you need a short summary, just skip to the last couple of paragraphs, which provide a neat synopsis of the points being made.
Our school used to have Dell 486/25's set up as diskless clients, running Netware 3 and Windows 3.1. You logged into Netware from DOS, then it automatically loaded windows. The machines wouldn't boot if the network was down.
This increased security no end, especially once they removed the floppy drives. Also PCs set up like this are less nickable.
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I don't know about everyone else, but I find it interesting to get a certain amount of background. Even if you know most of what is being said, you might still read something interesting. I don't really mind waffly articles myself, I just read through them faster.
Yes this is a long article, but there is a lot of information in there, and a lot of different areas being addressed. If you need a short summary, just skip to the last couple of paragraphs, which provide a neat synopsis of the points being made.
Our school used to have Dell 486/25's set up as diskless clients, running Netware 3 and Windows 3.1. You logged into Netware from DOS, then it automatically loaded windows. The machines wouldn't boot if the network was down.
This increased security no end, especially once they removed the floppy drives. Also PCs set up like this are less nickable.
Anyway, I'm sure the hardware exists to do it.