OT: view pdf file on a unix system

[Dennis Malen]

Thanks so much Bill. I will pass this on to my IT Department.

Dennis Malen
516.479.5912
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Campbell" <bill at celestial.com>
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Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2011 1:53 PM
Subject: Re: OT: view pdf file on a unix system


> On Thu, Jun 16, 2011, Dennis Malen wrote:
>> Interesting observation. I am a Mac devotee. I will ask our IT Department
>> to look into that. That having been said our Wyse Thin Clients have posed
>> minimal service problems and are extremely reliable. We have people who
>> have up to three physical screens connected. In addition, many of our
>> people need three filePro screens open at a time. I understand I would
>> also be able to do that with a PC but maintenance is too high.
>
> The new iMacs will support three physical screens, although I
> typically have > 25 xterms open on my Macbook Pro with a 24in
> 1920x1200 Hyundai monitor.  It has plenty of area to have related
> screens visible side-by-side.
>
> Running X11 applications on the Macs is trivial.  We always do
> this using ssh with X11 forwarding because it's so much easier
> than dealing with DISPLAY and the related security issues when
> attempting to do it without X11.
>
> Bill
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