Hi, everybody. I wonder how many of you DON'T know what WiseManager is, or have never seen a demo of it?...
kimwaic@...
Apr 30, 2000 3:32 am
... I'm going to say I don't know what it is. If I were "guessing" I would wonder if it was an application to allow use of the Window's Wise Installer? How...
Karen Mansbridge-Wood
karen.l.mansbridge-wo...
Apr 30, 2000 2:30 pm
... "guessing" ... I don't know what Window's Wise Installer is (since I hardly use Windows) but I can guess. WiseManager is not an "installer" program....
kimwaic@...
Apr 30, 2000 2:42 pm
... That is incredibly cool! Karen Where Do I Want To Go Today? I want to go where *I* want to go, Not where MS wants to send me. ... Instant Messenger:...
Karen Mansbridge-Wood
karen.l.mansbridge-wo...
Apr 30, 2000 4:28 pm
... Icredible as it may sound, support for remote booting has been standard OS/2 technology since almost day 1. Unfortunately nobody saw the significance of...
kimwaic@...
Apr 30, 2000 4:33 pm
What bandwith do you need ? Would i be as thin as Citrix ? Do you use the ICA-protocol ? Could it be run on an 64kb-line ? Could it be installed easily, so...
rothojo@...
May 1, 2000 1:19 am
... The critical part is during booting. The minimum bandwidth will be what can support about 800K of transfer because that's the size of the OS/2 kernel....
kimwaic@...
May 1, 2000 1:57 am
... minimum bandwidth ... because that's ... depends purely ... full Work ... bring up a ... booting at the ... what's call a ... ICA-protocol ? ... bandwidth....
Rolf-Thore Johansen
rothojo@...
May 3, 2000 6:07 am
... That's not uncommon. The way IBM oversea is set up, OS/2 doesn't mean much to their variable pay and so there is really no big incentive for them to push...
kimwaic@...
May 3, 2000 6:22 am
... It might be helpful for you to provide your perspective on how this extremely neat product fits into the e-business world, are you thinking kiosk and/or...
russell_kneebone@...
May 1, 2000 3:38 pm
... how this ... you ... relies on a ... Technology already exists to have a piece of software (very small piece) go into the flashable BIOS which will then...
kimwaic@...
May 1, 2000 4:44 pm
... Typo: Should have been "Benchmark testing usually are NOT very meaningful"....
kimwaic@...
May 1, 2000 4:58 pm
... So we are looking at the possibility of the managed client being an "ad hoc" environment for the processing of e-business transactions. In that case, it...
russell_kneebone@...
May 1, 2000 5:56 pm
... being ... Exactly. Pops up a browser and nobody needs to know or care that it's OS/2 underneath. ... consistent ... whether ad hoc ... the ... While the...
kimwaic@...
May 1, 2000 6:09 pm
Hi All, Just as a side note, for those running/participating in the Seti program I've created a new group for eComStation users. If you are already part of the...
Mark Rogers
mrogers@...
Nov 9, 2000 5:00 am
It's a package for managing a network ... Wait a second. When I connect a machine to the network and turn it on, I have to have some operating system available...
Jim Burke
jimburke@...
May 2, 2000 4:58 am
... turn it on, ... computer ... minimum. ... find it ... never ... address of ... Magic??? Well, you can come and see it either at the New York City OS/2...
kimwaic@...
May 2, 2000 5:01 am
... Can BeOS be made to behave this way? I was just thinking that it is already being targeted at appliances and has a legendarily short boot time....
russell_kneebone@...
May 3, 2000 6:39 pm
... that it is ... short boot ... I have not play with it - so I don't know. In theory, ANY OS can be remote booted if it's small enough. It's a matter of ...