[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tim Maher) writes: > On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 03:09:09PM -0700, William R Ward wrote: > > > > I've talked to just about everyone I can think of who might be able to > > help, and have just about run out of ideas. It's easy to get a room, > > You should talk to somebody in the nationwide training business! 8-}
That's what I'm trying to do. Trouble is, I haven't been able to find any of these firms you list until now. > > but to get a room with computers is hard. And I don't have the funds > > to buy a half-dozen PC's, nor the roadies to schlep them to the site > > and back each time. I want a room that already has PC's in it. And > > there is the problem. > > > > Any suggestions would be welcome. I'm located in the San Francisco > > Bay Area, in case you have any specific ideas; but general tips would > > be welcome as well. > > You might want to check out www.classrooms4u.com and > www.catrainingcenters.com, both of which rent out computer-filled > rooms nationwide; there are lots of other outfits as well. You should > expect to pay upwards of about $1k per day for your rental, although > you might be able to pay on a number-of-students basis too. However, > there are a few caveats you should keep in mind when shopping for this > type of service: I was hoping for something quite a bit less than $1k! But I'll contact them and see what I can find. Luckily I live in the area where I want to have the class, so it should be easy to verify the quality of the facilities. [...] > Of course, the other problem is that 99% of these facilities will be > giving you Windows boxes, although some of them might let you serve > Unix/Linux to them via telnet from over your laptop, or from over the > Internet. That's what ActivePerl is for. Windows is a perfectly adequate platform for Perl development. > In summary, I have some experience and knowledge of > computer-classroom rental companies, but I haven't found one I like > enough to use on a regular basis, or recommend to anybody yet. > Anybody know a good outfit? I'm anxious to hear if anyone has suggestions too... thanks! -- William R Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.wards.net/~bill/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- AMAZING BUT TRUE: There is so much sand in northern Africa that if it were spread out it would completely cover the Sahara Desert!
