Hi Andrey,
On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 08:37:50PM -0800, Andrey Novoseltsev wrote:
> Thanks a lot for such a detailed report!
:-)
> Is it possible to have step-by-step instructions for
> self-replicating USB sticks posted somewhere?
Thierry Monteil, who worked hard on that key and should get all the
credits for it, is in CC. He is planning to advertise it shortly.
> 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).
Thanks for reporting the use-case!
> I also hit the problem that Macs don't boot from USB, which IMHO is
> completely retarded, but that's just life.
Yeah. Besides, installing on Mac is not so much of an issue.
> 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).
Wow, 2k? That's quite a few!
Nicolas
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