Hey, don't we know this guy?

Post #22,115 by drewk 12/20/01 2:33:55 PM Reply	Hey, don't we know this guy? From [link\|http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/12/19/229219&mode=thread\|NewsForge]: The goal [of the SchoolForge project] is to reduce redundancy between projects and let more people know what Open Source options schools have, says Doug Loss, data network coordinator at Bloomsburg University in Pennsylvania and leader of the Simple End User Linux/edu project. Hmm, that name sounds awfully familiar. Doug, if you're around, does anyone have any tips on setting up a library? The branch I'm writing this from has a bunch of Compaq DP2000s (PII-200) w/ 32M ram running NT Workstation and Netscape 4.05. (At least it's not IE.) They're painfully slow, lock up about once every two hours or so -- usually from bad javascript of Java, believe it or not -- and have so many things turned off (for the sake of security) that you can't even disable javascript and Java in the browser to keep it from crashing. The librarian has told me they expect to replace them all eventually (time frame "any day now" to several months). I'd really like to be able to show them a better alternative, like keeping the existing systems as thin clients and just get a server to run everything off of. We have to fight the terrorists as if there were no rules and preserve our open society as if there were no terrorists. -- [link\|http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/05/opinion/BIO-FRIEDMAN.html\|Thomas Friedman]
Post #22,123 by ben_tilly 12/20/01 4:30:00 PM Reply	Doug Loss isn't around I last saw him a year ago, and at that point he said he no longer checked IWETHEY. But you could send him an email. Cheers, Ben
Post #22,292 by jake123 12/22/01 12:36:44 PM Reply	School setup If it's a controlled environment, you could do worse than to check out using [link\|http://www.ecomstation.com\|eComStation] on the clients, with WSeB running WiseManager on the server. You'll be able to do the thin client thing quite easily, it's stable, and it runs on old hardware so you could sub in a stable build of mozilla on the existing machines. If one of the users stuffs up a box, you can usually restore the configuration in under a minute and have it back up and running... Wisemanager is available from the [link\|http://www.serenity-systems.com\|publishers of eComStation]; in fact, eCS started out as the fat-client component of the network management suite. -- ---------------------------------------------------------- * Jack Troughton jake at jakesplace.dhs.org * * [link\|http://jakesplace.dhs.org\|[link\|http://jakesplace.dhs.org\|http://jakesplace.dhs.org]] [link\|ftp://jakesplace.dhs.org\|[link\|ftp://jakesplace.dhs.org\|ftp://jakesplace.dhs.org]] * * Montr\ufffdal PQ Canada [link\|news://jakesplace.dhs.org\|news://jakesplace.dhs.org] * ----------------------------------------------------------

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