I work in a school, we had had 20 machines being used as footwrests in our office for months, waiting for the day when we could be bothered to note down the serial numbers and dispose of them. Another 20 in a locked up lab because they took 20 minutes to get to a Windows/RM login prompt. All machines wer 5/6 years old.
Myself and my colleague have now spent the last few days setting up an LTSP server (www.ltsp.org) and the machines are now running better than the new ones we buy! Total cost to us to gain an extra computing lab £0 - as we already had the server, the server would have cost us £7k but still a great saving over time, considering we also need no licenses for the machines as they are Linux. The kids love em, no training at all and they are already in their surfing the net, using openOffice and printing work out.
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Im so glad google earth left platform dependancy behinde. Good Job google!
I use my native virus protector, it uses no! cpu time and has no! memory footprint its called a root password. :)
I work in a school, we had had 20 machines being used as footwrests in our office for months, waiting for the day when we could be bothered to note down the serial numbers and dispose of them. Another 20 in a locked up lab because they took 20 minutes to get to a Windows/RM login prompt. All machines wer 5/6 years old. Myself and my colleague have now spent the last few days setting up an LTSP server (www.ltsp.org) and the machines are now running better than the new ones we buy! Total cost to us to gain an extra computing lab £0 - as we already had the server, the server would have cost us £7k but still a great saving over time, considering we also need no licenses for the machines as they are Linux. The kids love em, no training at all and they are already in their surfing the net, using openOffice and printing work out.