[ Date Index ][
Thread Index ]
[ <= Previous by date / thread ] [ Next by date / thread => ]
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 02 May 2003 1:26 pm, Brough, Tom wrote: > It sounds like you have already found a champion for Linux (thin-client) in > yourself. I dont know what subjects you are studying but perhaps you could > suggest setting up a K12LTSP server & clients as a student project for the > IT students ? Just a thought. If you can persuade the powers that be to > release a few old machines as clients and stump up for a test server, hub > and network leads you should be able to get a proof of principal up and > running. Unfortunately (?) I won't be there much longer, so I'm not sure I'm really the candidate for the job... Unfortunately, the beauracracy (sp.?) is a serverely limiting factor. You feel that there aren't really any proper techies, just (Microsoft Certified) monkies who seem quite content with the (unacceptably poor) current situation. Ahh well... > > Lockdown.... > > I have mixed feelings about lockdown too. However the policy is not to stop > them from changing wallpaper or putting icons in their perferred locations > its more of a case of not making it easy for them to wander into areas the > Administrator doesnt want them going into. But surely the whole concept of Unix/Linux security is just that? What changes do you need to make? And if your students do happen to be 1337 hack0rs, recruit them to work as sysadmins ;-) > Funnily enough Howard @ Churston is looking into using VIA mini-itx based > boards to run as clients, hes got a supplier who is sending him 2 pre-built > clients @ ~ £120 (each that is). But I see two markets here. Firstly you > can now buy thin clients and secondly schools get old equipment donated, > due to licencing and data protection issues they have to be supplied with > hardisks either removed or wiped, so ideally these are an easy target for > deployment as thin clients. What's the name of the supplier? That sounds like exactly the kind of product I was envisaging. > Besides cost and better usage issues, thin clients reduce power consumption > (and therefore polution). The VIA board is powerful enough to be configured > as a "middle client" with different "levels" of thinnes applied (but still > run diskless). I dont know what the power consuption statistics are on a > hard disk but even if you multiplied the most conservative estimate by > number of employees with computers, you can quickly argue the case based on > environmental issues alone, thus thin client = green computing (IMO). Yeah, probably. If they're based on VIA Eden motherboards, they'll draw about 6W total. But personally I think it's just as important that they're *silent* and can be left on constantly. I'm just too tired of waiting for PCs that sound like jet engines to take off *very* slowly! Anyway, keep us posted. There are many situations that could be solved elegantly using a similar solution, IMHO. Jon -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+subKeTVvFHAhe5cRAuqeAJ9HfbtYOo9V14zVLM0FbKIu9lqt6wCePjje prFwiPprDSA8mRn9UvgCwBU= =Amgb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.