Re: [Server-devel] physical security issue

2008-10-07 Thread John Watlington
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

Re: [Server-devel] physical security issue

2008-10-07 Thread Sameer Verma
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

Re: [Server-devel] physical security issue

2008-10-07 Thread Walter Bender
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

Re: [Server-devel] physical security issue

2008-10-07 Thread Bill Bogstad
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

Re: [Server-devel] physical security issue

2008-10-07 Thread John Watlington
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