Dear Nicolas, Thanks a lot for such a detailed report!
Is it possible to have step-by-step instructions for self-replicating USB sticks posted somewhere? I think these may be a great way to use Sage even in developed countries. Last summer I used USB sticks for our summer school, with a hope that students may use them in the lab (I got our IT guys to open USB boot) and then on their own computers. To make sure that results are preserved between sessions, I've installed Linux on a USB partition together with Sage and LaTeX, tinkered with GRUB to mount only the stick by label rather than UUID, and then used Clonezilla for duplication (which fortunately support 1-to-many image restoration and I had a computer with 8 ports available). I also hit the problem that Macs don't boot from USB, which IMHO is completely retarded, but that's just life. It also seems to me that memory consumption is the main bottleneck of running Sage servers - when users are playing with basic calculus/ linear algebra, there isn't much demand on CPU, but every open worksheet or interact worker consumes quite a bit of virtual and resident memory. I hope to run a class with ~2k students next year and it is conceivable that most of them will do something a few hours before the homework deadline. We'll see how it goes (if it goes at all, of course). Thank you! Andrey -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-combinat-devel" group. To post to this group, send email to sage-combinat-devel@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-combinat-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-combinat-devel?hl=en.
