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 community.
-walter On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 11:20 PM, Sameer Verma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 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. >> > > OK. > >> I don't disagree about the need for physical security of >> the machine, just the proposed solution. >> > > OK. Any other solutions? I'm all ears. > > Sameer > >> wad >> >> On Oct 7, 2008, at 10:47 PM, Sameer Verma wrote: >> >>> As if discussions on this list aren't lively enough, here's another >>> issue to look at. >>> >>> While I was in Jamaica, I met with several people who work with their >>> school districts, and many pointed out that if a server was to stay >>> physically resident at the school, it will need a lot of physical >>> security. The most common problem is theft. The other problem will be >>> physical damage (just because somebody can). It is not uncommon in >>> some of these >>> >>> If the school server is hosted at an ISP upstream, we need something >>> small (maybe an XO?) at the school that can VLAN or VPN over to the >>> school server at the ISP/Data Center. >>> >>> Any ideas? >>> >>> cheers, >>> Sameer >>> -- >>> Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. >>> Associate Professor of Information Systems >>> San Francisco State University >>> San Francisco CA 94132 USA >>> http://verma.sfsu.edu/ >>> http://opensource.sfsu.edu/ >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Server-devel mailing list >>> Server-devel@lists.laptop.org >>> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel > _______________________________________________ > Server-devel mailing list > Server-devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel > -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org _______________________________________________ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
