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On Thu, 22 Jul 1999 22:46:46 GMT, Sproaticus <jsproat@io.com> wrote:
<roving desktops>
> You haven't seen Novell's Zenworks, I take it. It allows this for NT, 95,
> 98, yadda yadda yadda.
Well, I was trying to make a joke. Sorry, weong group, I know.
>
> > Especially since IE
> > tends to store its cache in user space, which then gets transported
> > right around campus over the network everry time someone logs on...
> > Combine that with the 10 Mb ethernet virtually all universities still
> > use as their network architecture (with woefully overloaded segments,
> > usually, even), and.. well, let's just say _I_ wouldn't want to field
> > the complaints line.
>
> This is actually a network design issue, not a platform issue.
The problem isn't that the network can't handle the load, it's that it
shouldn't _have_ to. For god's sake, the whole point of a local cache
is to reduce network load.
Jasper
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| (...) You're not thinking of the same kind of environment. I have to provide hundreds of workstations for tens of thousands of casual users. There's no such thing as a "local" anything when those users move around and use random machines at random (...) (25 years ago, 26-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| (...) You haven't seen Novell's Zenworks, I take it. It allows this for NT, 95, 98, yadda yadda yadda. (URL) Especially since IE (...) This is actually a network design issue, not a platform issue. Cheers, - jsproat (25 years ago, 22-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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