backup & low downtime for home network

[Chris Aitken]

Christopher Browne wrote:

>On Dec 5, 2007 9:22 PM, Robert Brockway <robert-5LEc/6Zm6xCUd8a0hrldnti2O/JbrIOy at public.gmane.org> wrote:
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>
>>Despite the many many advantages (including simplified backups and reduced
>>management time) alot of people don't seem to "get" thin clients.  For
>>people used to the workstation paradigm it can seem a strange idea.
>>    
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>The problem I have always had with the "thin client" approach is much
>the same as my problem with automobile leasing.
>
>Both *ought* to be enormously more beneficial to users than the
>rapacious vendors allow it to be.
>
>Auto leasing allows someone to get the tax benefit of depreciation, so
>it *OUGHT* to make it a compellingly preferable way for individuals to
>have cars to drive, but the leasing companies choose to use it as an
>excuse to profit excessively, so it's NOT cheaper than buying.
>
>Not too dissimilar, if I am buying an X term that's got wimpier CPU
>and no disk and needs less case and less cooling and less electricity,
>this *ought* to mean that the unit costs about as much as a videogame,
>that is, somewhere about $200-$300-ish.
>
>Reality is, instead, that once the vendors get thru with you, you've
>paid $800 for it, and that's so insultingly more than a cheap
>dueling-cores "full fledged PC" that I always decline to go this
>route.
>  
>
I thought the idea behind thin clients was, "Hey I was going to throw 
out my PIII 733 with it's 256 MB ceiling of DDRAM but I turned it into a 
thin client instead". So, that saves you the entire price of a new 
computer. Of course, I have no right to be a thin client advocate (yet).

Chris

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