Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 22:02:31 -0800 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Mike Meyer" <mwm@mired.org> Cc: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: home pc use Message-ID: <004b01c17252$1b8880e0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <15355.16741.576076.247915@guru.mired.org>
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>-----Original Message----- >From: Mike Meyer [mailto:mwm@mired.org] >Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2001 9:54 PM >To: Ted Mittelstaedt >Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: RE: home pc use > > > >> 3) The X protocol only works decently over an Ethernet LAN it >sucks horribly >> over slow links. Think large corporations with many far-flung WAN >links that >> might be 56k links because they are cheap. > >That depends on what you're doing with it. If you're trying to run a >web browser over it, yeah, it sucks - especially if the web server is >on *your* end of the 56K link :-). For running xterms and xemacs, it's >just fine. I've done enough of it in my time to know. > True, once the windows and wigits are built then even a slow link is OK for that kind of thing. And also in the latest X I understand they put in network speedup code, although you have to be running current X on both the server and client. But unfortunately too many users get the impression an application is "slow" just because it may take a couple minutes to draw the screen, even though after the screen is drawn the app runs fine. > >> Pull crap like that a few too many times and your going to end up with >> no job. Yes, you can stave off the immediate demands with excuses. >> Another common excuse that works with FreeBSD is "I left voicemail with >> the consultant and he hasn't gotten back yet" > >Please note that the text Ted is replying to is *not* mine. Sorry Mike, I did know that - I should have made it a bit more clear. It always gets my dander up to read all the FUD regarding support, it's the most overrated thing in the software business there is. But I wouldn't worry too much as by now I think most people are deleting the messages in this thread unread. ;-) Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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