[AccessD] Network booting Windows XP

John W. Colby jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com
Thu Feb 10 14:12:59 CST 2005


Notice my sig: http://folding.stanford.edu/

One of the things we (AccessD) as a group could do is to gather our users
into a team to do this.  Folding at Home is one of many distributed computing
projects and one that is particularly worthwhile IMHO.

John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com 

Contribute your unused CPU cycles to a good cause:
http://folding.stanford.edu/

-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Charlotte Foust
Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 2:31 PM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: RE: [AccessD] Network booting Windows XP


OK, obviously I haven't been paying attention, so I'm not shy about
admitting my ignorance.  What the blazes are you guys talking about??

Charlotte Foust


-----Original Message-----
From: John W. Colby [mailto:jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com] 
Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 11:06 AM
To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
Subject: RE: [AccessD] Network booting Windows XP


BTW, I just went over 100k points (in 6 months), and I am world rank 2936 of
425050 folders.

Not bad eh?

John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com 

Contribute your unused CPU cycles to a good cause:
http://folding.stanford.edu/

-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Admin Sparky
Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 1:22 PM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Network booting Windows XP


You can't fool us...you really want to raise that folding score don't you?


Mark


On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 12:57:41 -0500, John W. Colby
<jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com> wrote:
> No I'm not.  I would like to build a handful of cheap computers with 
> no floppy, no cd, no hard disk but I need the processing power of the 
> PC.  IOW the PC needs to power up. Load windows from a server, load a 
> program from the server and go to work.
> 
> Terminal server is generally a full on pc that boots off its own hard 
> disk and then loads TS client (from its own hard disk).
> 
> John W. Colby
> www.ColbyConsulting.com
> 
> Contribute your unused CPU cycles to a good cause: 
> http://folding.stanford.edu/
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of William 
> Hindman
> Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 2:09 AM
> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] Network booting Windows XP
> 
> ..you're describing Terminal Server.
> 
> William Hindman
> ""Freedom of speech makes it much easier to spot the idiots." Jay 
> Lessig
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John W. Colby" <jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com>
> To: "'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'" 
> <accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2005 9:32 PM
> Subject: [AccessD] Network booting Windows XP
> 
> > Does anyone have any experience in using XP in a diskless 
> > environment? Booting into Xp over the lan and using a shared disk 
> > for storage?
> >
> > John W. Colby
> > www.ColbyConsulting.com
> >
> > Contribute your unused CPU cycles to a good cause: 
> > http://folding.stanford.edu/
> >
> >
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