Hi Yudhvir, Yudhvir Singh Sidhu wrote: > Starting a one room school in my village - teaching small grade children > (girls) in basic subjects such as English, Math, Punjabi and Computers. > I am considering LTSP. The school is about a couple hundred feet from my > cousin's house where I am preciving to put the server. The students will > be about 25, I am assuming I will put a client on each desk. and there > will be a library with about 5 more clients. I want to run a cable from > home to school - is this the best way? Now the confusion: > a. It gets hot and we are not planning anything more than ceiling fans. > We are talking unbearable heat for someone who lives in the West. And > during monsoon season, lots of humidity. What hardware can handle this > kind of environment? Oh did I mention there are brown-outs everyday > (scheduled)? I am considering PV panels on the building and for the server.
There was a press release January 23 (http://www.via.com.tw/en/resources/pressroom/2006_archive/pr060123IndiaInnovCtr-PHD.jsp) that pointed me here: http://www.via.com.tw/en/initiatives/empowered/ http://www.viapc-1.com/ ...so there's at least one company that's got the point in making computers for real life conditions. If it weren't so humid, you might have considered making a cooler "hut" external casing for the computer/server space out of clay (no, I'm not joking). It would use the capillary channels (it's important that they remain unbroken by e. g. mortar - clay all the way) in the (sundried) clay to suck up water from e. g. a dug well with clay-clad walls, and use the evaporation from the hut walls as cooling. Tried and true technology used by the Babylonians, maintaining a controlled and even indoors climate ages before anyone thought up AC. Perhaps some application of a "cold wall" as moisture trap could be set up? > b. PV would lead me to select systems consuming low power and > applications which do not tax the server. A lot of what you can and can't do (and how) depends on your budget. We set our classroom up here in Sweden on more or less SEK 0:- for equipment, but the rest of the framework (walls, roof, reliable and paid-for electricity, humble but reliable Internet connection were all given. > c. SInce I am considering 30 clients, we are looking at 6.7K Sorry, 6.7K = ? > for LTSP > TERM 140 from diskless workstations. I will go with that if there is > reliability and stability in these boxes. Anyone want to suggest > anything more robust? > d. Is there anyone out there doing this stuff in India? Judging by some posts to this list, there is :). > e. Is there any LTSP source in India? I'll be out of my element and > don't know any geek or supply house out there. Everything I will have I > would have taken from here. If you can access this list, there's plenty of advice to be had here, IMHO. Do search this lists archives too, it pays. HTH, BR, Gudmund ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
