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Back to the customers. You and me. It it goes as far as Enron there is just jailtime to dole out to the perpetrators. But the problem you have is not Enron...
As I say, you need better legislation. If you do an oops, here you have three days grace time, and then...
Greg Menke
Not if it was declared to be an accounting or computer error. Think about it. All they have to do is correct a declared oops. Meanwhile there's all that lovely money gaining a...
When the client logs in to the server, a virtual desktop from the server is projected onto a window on the client's screen, and the windows of each running application are all within this one bitmap display of the remote virtual desktop. This works especially nicely when the client has a large screen, and the virtual desktop is created a bit smaller than that, so that the user can flip between the virtual desktop and the local windows. I think the on-wire protocol is basically bitmaps, since the communications part of the remote server has to be hooked into the GUI software as a virtual graphics card (but with the newer versions of Windows, I think many operations are sent to the graphics processor in the form of structured commands rather than just bit-blitting. If the client workstation has a smaller screen than the desktop, you get to scroll a lot. Not much fun.
Greg Menke
No, each user has his own desktop. Each user runs his own instance of Word, and when you switch users, the windows on the suspended desktop are not visible to the new user, but when you switch back they are as when you left them.
Greg Menke
It is a different function, and for the specific uses mentioned, it is very useful.
Anyway, I was addressing your original statement that: "DOS mentality lives on in the OS design; there is no concept of multi-user built in to the OS. Several accounts may exist on the machine, but only 1 can be operating a full-fledged session at a time and that session has full ownership of the system resources- essentially just like DOS." This is just not true. Windows NT has a true multi-user kernel underneath, and the GUI has been steadily moving towards making use of the features of that kernel.
Lars Poulsen
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