[K12OSN] LTSP demo offer for schools in Wash, DC area

["Terrell Prudé, Jr."]

Folks,

For those of you in schools in the greater Washington, DC area, I make 
the following offer.

I have a dual-Athlon K12LTSP server with 4GB DRAM which I am willing to 
use for demos.  I estimate that my server can power anywhere between 30 
and 40 clients running either GNOME or KDE before it starts swapping to 
disk.  If you are in a situation in which you wish to present LTSP to 
your administration, then I am willing to bring my server and support 
you in that endeavour.  If you have a bunch of "old" boxes like the 
Optiplex GX1's below, or Pentium-100's or whatever, that you don't know 
what to do with,  I can, and am willing to, show you and your bosses 
what to do with them.

My price:  a negotiable quantity of chocolate.  I think that's 
reasonable.  :-)

Why:  I believe enough in Free Software, especially with regard to 
children, to do this.

My qualifications:  way too much to outline here.  If someone cares 
about that stuff, feel free to ask me privately.

--TP

Petre Scheie wrote:

> I hate to ask this (because I think I know the answer) but why is your 
> district throwing out working terminals?  That's one of the selling 
> points of LTSP is that the terminals don't have to be replaced until 
> they die (and I know you know this, we've both been on this list a 
> long time ;-)).  But I have to ask what the district is thinking here.
>
> Petre
>
> Terrell Prudé, Jr. wrote:
>
>> Yes, I have seen this.  Many times.
>>
>> Dell Optiplex GX1's, of which my district has a ton, are known to 
>> have issues with the BIOS with respect to the built-in NICs.  
>> Depending on the BIOS revision, some will stay locked at 
>> 10Mbps/HalfDuplex, and others won't even PXE boot.  Your 
>> slow-responding terminal sounds like it likely has the 10Mb/HDX 
>> locking issue.  Flashing the Optiplex's BIOS has fixed the problem 
>> for me every time.
>>
>> Jim, if you're reading this by any chance, then just in case, it'd be 
>> a good idea to flash the BIOS's on all the Optiplexes you sell, if 
>> you're not already doing it.  And I agree with you; they make very 
>> fine LTSP terminals.  It's a shame my district is throwing them out 
>> (hint hint).
>>
>> --TP
>>
>> Joshua Sanders wrote:
>>
>>> I am setting up my 5th K12 terminal system and here in sunny st. croix,
>>> and i ran into a problem i can't figure out. I was wondering if 
>>> anyone had
>>> an idea.
>>>
>>> The walls are 4 foot concrete so i concerved on running cable by 
>>> running
>>> one or two runs from building to building and then putting a switch 
>>> in...
>>> (of couse following the swtich/hub/router guidelines.) I am in the 
>>> great
>>> room of this plantation home with two teminals and my wireless laptop
>>> here. I can log in from my laptop through VNC with no problem. One 
>>> of the
>>> terminals works great (speed wise) and the other one loads the 
>>> graphical
>>> greeter line by line.  The wireless router, and both terminals are 
>>> plugged
>>> into the same switch, and i tried switching the cables from the one 
>>> that
>>> is fast to the that is slow to make sure it was not a cable issue.
>>>
>>> The Terminals are all are the same model refurbished dells from
>>> disklessworkstation.com same mouse and key board. I cannot seem to find
>>> anything different in the .conf, and i am fresh out of ideas. Any 
>>> one seen
>>> this before?
>>>
>>> Joshua Sanders
>>>
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