On Mon, October 13, 2014 1:50 pm, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 9:01 AM, Chris Beattie <cbeattie@xxxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: >> On 10/13/2014 7:17 AM, Steve Clark wrote:> Yes but you have to be >> physically close to the main cpu. What about >>> distractions from other people sitting right next to you? >>> Playing music, etc. >> >> That's not all that different from modern cube farms. You learn to >> tolerate or ignore other people, or more ideally, collaborate well with >> your closest co-workers. >> >> Where I work, there are people sitting side-by-side at folding tables >> (business has picked up faster than physical facilities can keep up >> with). In our case, they're all using zero clients and virtual >> desktops. However, it's exactly the kind of setup where a multi-seat >> computer might make sense for other companies or schools that don't have >> our virtualization expertise. > > Being able to grab your existing desktop remotely with all open > windows and long-running programs intact is a big plus, though - and > you get that for free with NX or x2go. Can you connect remotely to > your VM host some other way if you aren't at the special desktop? > How much different is that from VNC? Just curious. Valeri ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos