Re: EDU-HOW TO Revisions

[Michael A Hamblin <michaelh@utdallas.edu>]

On Mon, 10 May 1999, Bill Tihen wrote:

> I will post revisions to my first notes.  But first I have a few questions.
> 1) I am currently doing this as a text file.  I figure it will be easier to
> put into the proper format later.  Any ideas on how to make it more readable.
> 2) Any ideas on what the format should be?

XML, of course! :)

> 3) Any ideas on keeping track of revisions, etc?
> 4) Please comment away, but I will be taking a 4 day weekend and I am
> actually getting away, so the next update will be at least a week away anyway.
> 
> Thanks for all the posts.  I have decided to quote you -- instead of asking
> for people to volunteer.  However, you are still welcome to do so.  If
> anyone wants something removed let me know.  

This is really neat. I'm looking forward to what comes out of this and I'm
hoping I'll be able to give you some documentation, although working full
time and a half right now my time is a bit short :)

I made a lot of use of the article below recently, and I can add my own
experiences to the mix. This article goes through configuring the chooser
to allow a user to choose between multiple machines for an X login (thin
clients in a real sense). For cash-strapped schools this may or may not be
useful, depending on what existing hardware they have and what resources
they will have in the future. It may make more sense to "upgrade" a
computer lab by converting all the machines to Xterms and buying a really
hot server. 20 machines at $500 is $10000, which should be able to buy a
really nice multiprocessor RAID enabled server that performs well instead
of 20 bottom-end new machines. Maybe 20 entry-level machines are fine and
the server doesn't make sense in those situations. Linux is cool like
that :)

Make an old PC an xterm
http://www.linuxhq.com/lg/issue27/kaszeta.html

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