Very quiet week here in Lake Wobegone. The stuff is just working. Avimark still works best when Wine is set to the "emulate a virtual desktop" mode. Otherwise it it possible for a user to get themselves stuck with an alert window shuffled to the background, but not allowing them to go on. There are simple ways out of it, but its better if it doesnt happen in the first place.
Spent part of the morning configuring a thin client for use at the emergency clinic. You do have to eliminate some software that you dont use in order to have room to load what you will use, but small price to pay, for the small price I paid :-)
If the weather is bad this weekend, I may spend some time working through a cookbook for all this at another vet who followed me down the rabbit hole started to put together.
Might also be able to prepare a live install disk to do the dirty work for folks ahead of time. Starting to get some emails about this stuff.
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Friday, July 5, 2013
Monday, July 1, 2013
HP thin clients are installed and running.. great product
So far the HP t5740e units with windows 7 embedded seem to be just what the doctor ordered. Silent, low power consumption. Option of running Avimark on the client, or rdp to the server, and run it there.
I have now removed all the ncomputing terminals and replaced them with the standalone thin clients.
We had some big storms through which they soldiered on. I took a long weekend vacation, and they all functioned flawlessly while I was gone.
So for anyone keeping score, I am running about 15 rdp sessions with Avimark running on the Linux server in WINE.
Interestingly there is a limit of 10 sessions built into the base configuration of the x11rdp, but a quick edit of a config file fixed that.
Ubuntu 12.04 WINE (ver?) x11rdp remote desktop on the windows machines.
CUPS runs the printers on the linux side, and is very stable as long as you don't have any ip conflicts on your internal network. A power outage, loss of internet, and a non total restart of my network pointed that out
Total shutdown that evening and restart with everyone assigned a new ip by the router made it all happy again.
I have now removed all the ncomputing terminals and replaced them with the standalone thin clients.
We had some big storms through which they soldiered on. I took a long weekend vacation, and they all functioned flawlessly while I was gone.
So for anyone keeping score, I am running about 15 rdp sessions with Avimark running on the Linux server in WINE.
Interestingly there is a limit of 10 sessions built into the base configuration of the x11rdp, but a quick edit of a config file fixed that.
Ubuntu 12.04 WINE (ver?) x11rdp remote desktop on the windows machines.
CUPS runs the printers on the linux side, and is very stable as long as you don't have any ip conflicts on your internal network. A power outage, loss of internet, and a non total restart of my network pointed that out
Total shutdown that evening and restart with everyone assigned a new ip by the router made it all happy again.
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