>Mike,
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>You do seem sometimes to have this "if you're not doing it the way I say, you're doing it wrong" attitude.

Seem is the key word. You're imagining my attitude. It's not just the way "I say". There are many many people that have found running the exe locally to be best practice.

> You talked about "data". Well, have you ever seen a situation where a local drive was slower than a network drive? I have.

Yes. Long ago. Now the drives in the local PC are almost as fast as the server's own drives. Thereby we get into discussion of NIC speed versus local hard drive speed and the bandwidth from the local disk to the local CPU usually far outweighs the LAN bandwidth.

>Have you ever thought about the fact that "data" is interpreted differently by different people?

Why should I? I'm not responsible for other's interpretation.

Dictionary.com: Computer Science Numerical or other information represented in a form suitable for processing by computer.

The exe's contents are not "data" in this context.

> If you take the pros and cons of doing anything, you have to remember that people weight those pros and cons differently.

Yes. Some feel smoking is fine. There is nothing good about smoking.

> So they may come to different ideas about what is the proper way to proceed. But what you want to tell me is that I'm only going "halfway". You look at it with your perspective and your ideas about the weighting and I look at it with mine. I'm glad you have some sort of loader. It makes sense, in general. The difference here is that you're telling me how wrong I am and how I'm only going halfway (again, based on your perspective and not mine). I'm telling you nothing of the sort. When you can quit looking down your nose at me over a
> issue as minor as this, then maybe I might give your comments more weight.

What I don't understand is how something scientific as computing is constantly being muddied by "personal preference" instead of hard data.

Tell you what, go migrate all your stuff to local drives instead of running the exe from the LAN. Until you've done that experiment, you're perspective is based on what - religion/faith?

This is purely a technical discussion and I'm not looking down my nose at anybody.

Maybe when you can stop getting your back up over an issue as minor as this real learning will begin.