[K12OSN] Diskless thin clients finding predators

[ahodson at elp.rr.com]

Thanks Peter - he did. He's awesome!
cheers
Alan
-=o=-


---- Peter Scheie <peter at scheie.homedns.org> wrote: 
> Alan-
> Symbio-Technologies is alive & kicking.  I talked to Gideon Romm, one of the 
> principals of Symbio, on #ltsp about your messages not getting responses.  He 
> said he hadn't seen them, figures they may have been getting caught by spam 
> filters.  He said he'll send you an email.
> 
> Peter
> 
> Alan Hodson wrote:
> > Greetings
> > 
> > After having almost no 'predators' for number of years, the K12LTSP 
> > servers that I've run in the El Paso ISD (evolved to Centos5 servers and 
> > more recently to Edubuntu servers, all working via diskless thin clients 
> > from powerful servers with 4-8G RAM,) are being challenged and slowly 
> > killed by the Instructional Technology folks (predators) who insist that 
> > every lab must be a multimedia lab, running what amounts to MS based 
> > apps. The heavy flash sites that the district has chosen for training 
> > and tech applications, and the tests mandated by the State are making 
> > the thin client option a hard choice. Our new CTO wants true thin 
> > clients, but some of the MS specific apps can't deliver via Remote 
> > Terminal Services, so now we are looking into "fat" thin clients (!) 
> > with CE embedded, so part of the processing is done by the client, 
> > leaving some room for other services... We've even coined the term 
> > "yahooligan's syndrome"... see how many clients you can run from a 
> > server before nobody goes anywhere.
> > 
> > My brief saga is a call for experiences and solutions the members of the 
> > list have experienced. If there is a way to  run 30 sessions of 
> > Learning.com's EasyTech for instance from one of our servers, I'd love 
> > to know how the system was tweaked/set up. I've suggested small clusters 
> > of PCs and 3/4 thin clients as a possibility, but I don't seem to be 
> > making much progress. The Dark Side looms!
> > 
> > On a related matter, does anybody know if symbio-technologies is still 
> > around? Several emails I've sent have gone unanswered - I hope they are 
> > working on solutions to my problems.
> > Cheers
> > Alan Hodson
> > http://links.episd.org/
> > -=o=-
> > 
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