RE: [K12OSN] Small School, Small Budget

[wj bensonhs pps k12 or us]

Well. I dont work for a school district persay. I am a student at 
Benson High School (http://www.bensonhs.net). We love to play with 
technology and I think our last copy of reader rabbit got tossed with 
the 486's 2 years ago. I will call up some people at our District 
office. Just need to do some searching.

Hey, Would you be intrested in sending me those "dated" binarys for 
WineX? I am trying to get some stuff working on a linux box and want 
to know if the subscription is really worth it.

And in the way of hardware on a budget (Try builing a lab on 500 bux, 
Yes we are trying!)
Here are some links to some good dell deals:
http://outlet.us.dell.com/Dispatcher?
target=InventoryPage&action=filter&lob=POWER&model_search_and_display=
PowerEdge%201500%20SC&tgtSeg=B&srcType=xml&srcDetail=series

Try custom building a Dell Poweredge 1500 SC. I just setup one at 
work, nice dual P3 system. It runs well and supports oodles of stuff. 
Cost us 1400 with 1 P3 1.13 ghz proc, 512 DDR, 2 36gb 10k SCA-SCSI, 
the little extras.

Another option is to custom build a server. There are plenty of dual 
mobo's at good prices on pricewatch. I would be happy to spec out all 
the parts for you to build your self.

William J McCloskey
Benson TechNEt Admin

> If someone can hit me up with reader rabbit I can try to make it 
> work. I have had luck with most programs via some tweaking of the 
> code weavers edition of wine.
> 
> > As far as compatibility with Reader Rabbit and the sort, you’re 
not
> > gonna have a lot of luck. I’ve got a teacher who let me switch her
> > workstation to redhat and she loves it more than windows –only I 
> never
> > hear the end of it for her milly fitzwilly and reader rabbit not
> > working. If anyone has done this LET ME KNOW AND I WILL PAY YOU 
> MONEY
> > (I’m lying about the paying part). I say you are in the ideal
> > situation
> > for ltsp. As far as speed, you won’t be able to beat it. Ltsp 
will 
> be
> > faster than win95 hands down. For server hardware I might add that
> > memory should also be a big focus. The rule of thumb has been to
> > allocate at least 50 megs of ram per client. For 22 machines you 
> will
> > need more than that one gig and remember that you must also 
allocate
> > plenty for the server itself. If you’re planning on working with 
big
> > apps like open office a lot, you might need to look at even more 
> ram. I
> > would also opt for scsi drives instead of ide. The ide drives 
will 
> big a
> > big bottleneck especially when running open office and the sort. 
I 
> know
> > you’re like the rest of us and have a stretched budget :-) so 
maybe
> > you
> > can sacrifice size for speed if need be. As far as your test at 
> home,
> > that should be good to begin with but keep in mind 256 mb ram and 
2
> > terminals will really be stretched so expect better from a 
server. 
> Hope
> > some of this helps.
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > Caleb Wagnon, MCP
> > Fordyce School District
> > Office of Technology
> > Fordyce, Arkansas 71742
> > (870) 352-2968
> > 
> > The box said "Requires Windows 95 or better." So I installed 
LINUX.
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: k12osn-admin redhat com [mailto:k12osn-admin redhat com] On 
> Behalf
> > Of Jared Irby
> > Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2002 9:10 PM
> > To: k12osn redhat com
> > Subject: [K12OSN] Small School, Small Budget
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > Well, I am the "technical rep" for a pretty small school (approx. 
> 200
> > students) and we need to get the computer lab back up. We have a
> > computer lab with 22 computers (Pentium 100, 16 mb ram, all 10/100
> > NICs).  Right now all these computers are hooked into 2 hubs 
which 
> are
> > connected to a DSL modem and router.  We have about $1500 to 
> spend.  We
> > are either goning to spend it on licenses for Windows and Office 
as 
> we
> > currently ony have 2 or 3 (yuck....) or on a K12LSTP sever.  From 
> what I
> > see, this project looks pretty promising.  I'm just wondering 
about
> > compatability with Windows "edutainment" (Reader Rabbit, Math 
> Blaster,
> > etc). Also how fast will this setup be? Faster than Windows  95? 
> I've
> > installed a copy of Red Hat 7.3 configured with OpenOffice and a 
> Mozilla
> > and really impressed the people with spending power, so all I 
really
> > have to make sure of is the speed and compatability.  I've priced 
a
> > couple servers and I figure we have enough budget to build a dual 
> Athlon
> > 2000 MP system with a gig of ram and 2 raid 40 gig ATA 100 hard 
> drives.
> > Would this make our lab fast at all? Any suggestions or ideas 
would 
> be
> > greatly appriceated...
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > Oh I am setting up a test experiment with my personal computer at 
> home
> > running 2 workstations off of my 1.2 ghz Athlon w/ 256 mb of RAM. 
> Would
> > this experiment be about what the speed would be with 20 terminals
> > hooked up to a fast server?
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > Thanks for reading this long message.
> > 
> > Jared Irby
> > 
> > 
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