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/ > > > > > > -- > > AccessD mailing list > > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > > -- > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > -- > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com