On Saturday 11 March 2006 12:08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Starting a one room school in my village - teaching small grade children > > (girls) in basic subjects such as English, Math, Punjabi and Computers. > > I am considering LTSP. The school is about a couple hundred feet from my > > cousin's house where I am preciving to put the server. The students will > > be about 25, I am assuming I will put a client on each desk. and there > > will be a library with about 5 more clients. I want to run a cable from > > home to school - is this the best way? Now the confusion: > > a. It gets hot and we are not planning anything more than ceiling fans. > > We are talking unbearable heat for someone who lives in the West.
I don't know! Perth can do 46C ummm 115F and go a bit North and 55C, 130F pretty soon you are starting to talk *hot* <smile> > > And > > during monsoon season, lots of humidity. What hardware can handle this > > kind of environment? Oh did I mention there are brown-outs everyday > > (scheduled)? I am considering PV panels on the building and for the > > server. Two points, cause the problem is not a show stopper: High humidity is better (the heat content of the passing air is greater) so the amount of cooling per unit time is higher. This is not a bio system using evaporation for cooling! Humidity is not a consideration. (But claypots won't work either!) Keeping the gubbins dry IS an issue. IE high humidity and dropping temperature. Enough airflow to keep cool (Athlon64 ?? probably better than intel here, and lower power to wit) Keep the server on Dry the inlet air if temperature changes are an issue (eg air through a cool corrigated iron chamber whatever, you get the picture) Sounds an interesting challange, but is quite doable. James ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid0944&bid$1720&dat1642 _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
