tlug: more NT links

[Jim Schweizer <schweiz@example.com>]

Hi all,

www.slashdot.org just continues to amuse and inform ... I really
loved this one:

http://www.ncworldmag.com/ncw-06-1998/ncw-06-lastten.html

In particular, the inference that NT is still a single-user
platform. This is a barrel of laughs:

It's the applications, stupid.
The point is that Microsoft can't fix Windows NT and stop
there. The applications themselves have been designed from a
single-user viewpoint -- a fact that poses interesting problems
when you try to make them work in a multiuser setting. 

Take Microsoft Office's Find Fast utility, for example. This
utility builds a searchable index file on every non-removable
drive in your system. These index files make it easier for you
to search through your Office documents. 

The problem is that Find Fast runs under the assumption that a
single user is running Office on a single machine. When you
allow multiple users to run Office simultaneously on Windows NT,
each user ends up running his or her own independent copy of Find
Fast. If you have 50 users running Microsoft Office, you have
50 instances of Find Fast running on the server. 

Each of these instances can easily end up competing to update the
same index files on each drive. But that isn't the worst design
problem. The real problem stems from the fact that Find Fast
sucks up between 90 and 100 percent of your CPU processing power
every time it's triggered. 

When a utility like Fast Find drains the CPU on your desktop
for a moment, the consequences are minimal. But whenever any one
of 50 users on a shared system triggers Find Fast, that user
momentarily brings the response time for all the users on the
system to a complete standstill. If multiple users trigger Find
Fast at the same time, the system will turn into a virtual
popsicle. According to Citrix, the only solution for this problem
is to disable Find Fast for all users. 

ROTFL....

Regards, Jim S.

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