[Beowulf] OT, X11 editor which works well for very remote systems?

[Tony Brian Albers]

No problem, I didn't think you were trying to.

Are you in Copenhagen? Enjoy your stay. I was born and raised there, but 
now I live in the countryside and work in Aarhus -suits me a lot better.

/tony


On 2018-06-07 10:08, John Hearns via Beowulf wrote:
> Tony, I really did not mean to shoot you down. Yes thin terminals, but 
> they have smart processing.
> And hello from a sunny Kobenhavn.
> 
> 
> On 7 June 2018 at 10:05, Tony Brian Albers <tba at kb.dk 
> <mailto:tba at kb.dk>> wrote:
> 
>     I see, so quite a bit more than what SR's could.
> 
>     Thanks for the clarification.
> 
>     /tony
> 
>     On 2018-06-07 09:29, John Hearns via Beowulf wrote:
>     > Tony, not to be rude but not really.
>     > Teradici is more than thin terminals. They apply smart compression, 
>     > which I am told compresses textual parts of the screen differently to 
>     > graphics.
>     > They also have 'buidl to lossless' for slower links - so if you rotate a 
>     > model it is blurry then sharpens up to lossless when you stop rotating.
>     > 
>     > On 7 June 2018 at 09:27, Tony Brian Albers <tba at kb.dk <mailto:tba at kb.dk>
>     > <mailto:tba at kb.dk <mailto:tba at kb.dk>>> wrote:
>     > 
>     > 
>     >     > Teradici PCOIP - I used the hardware version of PCOIP with cards in 
>     >     > workstations and zero (thin) clients on desks.
>     >     > Works great. Completely transparent to users. If you are working in a 
>     >     > secure environment then you should really, really look at this.
>     >     > I had one customer who was working at a UK secure site. He had a cluster 
>     >     > room, and a small room next door with Windows PCs.
>     >     > He would have to walk over to work on the PCs as they were not connected 
>     >     > to his office network.
>     >     > First time I visited the site I recommended Teradici and they were a 
>     >     > great success - the card/terminals have options for fibre connections
>     >     > which are again used on many secure sites.
>     >     > 
>     >     > 
>     >     > 
>     > 
>     >     Back in the day (late 90's) that technology was known as SunRay
>     >     Terminals ;)
>     > 
>     >     -- 
>     >     Tony Albers
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Royal Danish Library, Victor Albecks Vej 1, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark.
Tel: +45 2566 2383 / +45 8946 2316