[K12OSN] Diskless thin clients finding predators

[Peter Scheie]

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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