Clarification: the XO is not the laptop I am proposing for the server. Wad can speak to this.
-walter 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 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 > -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org _______________________________________________ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel