On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 2:59 PM, Pia Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all,
quote who=John Watlington
We currently do not recommend that an AA be used in schools.
Scalability with AAs is a problem, due to problems with the mesh
protocols. Hence my comment about likely needing an
Hi all,
quote who=Sameer Verma
I'm doing a reasonable AA trial and I'll post how it goes to the list soon.
It seems to be working quite well though in initial tests.
How many XOs?
At the moment the most to one AA is 45, and it was weird because with an
earlier version of the XO software
On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 8:42 PM, John Watlington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Actually, Walter, we still hold hope for XOs as school servers
for very small schools.The problem with this is insufficient
memory and insufficient disk space. While an external disk
may alleviate the second
Sameer,
We currently do not recommend that an AA be used in schools.
Scalability with AAs is a problem, due to problems with the mesh
protocols. Hence my comment about likely needing an external
USB/network interface for the upstream connection.
This might make the physical security
Recommend: lockable, secure case, with built-in securement loops that could
attach to a bike chain or cable.
--HH.
On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 1:37 PM, John Watlington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sameer,
We currently do not recommend that an AA be used in schools.
Scalability with AAs is a
On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 3:47 PM, Sameer Verma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
As if discussions on this list aren't lively enough, here's another
issue to look at.
This has been covered in many discussions - perhaps not so much on
this list but it's an important issue.
However, there is little we can
You keep pushing for centrally hosted school servers.
Are you sure you don't work for the phone company ?
Again, unless you have a 100 Mbit connection from the
school to the upstream ISP, you will need something with
a disk and a significant amount of memory present in the
school.
I don't
On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 8:00 PM, John Watlington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You keep pushing for centrally hosted school servers.
Are you sure you don't work for the phone company ?
Last time I checked, San Francisco State University wasn't in the
telco business.
Again, unless you have a 100
One idealet (not worthy of being called an idea): What if the server
were a laptop that the teacher could take with him/her? Pros: The
school need not be secure. Cons: Price, and of course, laptops can be
stolen. But it does put the server in the hands of a presumably
trusted individual in the
On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 11:24 PM, Walter Bender [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
One idealet (not worthy of being called an idea): What if the server
were a laptop that the teacher could take with him/her? Pros: The
school need not be secure. Cons: Price, and of course, laptops can be
stolen. But it
Actually, Walter, we still hold hope for XOs as school servers
for very small schools.The problem with this is insufficient
memory and insufficient disk space. While an external disk
may alleviate the second problem, it has poor reliability and
is a very attractive item for theft.
But
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