Thought y'all might enjoy this: Yesterday, Je77 and I taught a tutorial on using and administering Swikis at the Computer Supported Collaborative Learning Conference 2002 in Boulder (http://www.cscl2002.org). Everyone had to bring their own laptop, so we had OSes from Mac OS X and OS 9.1, to Windows XP and 2000 and who knows what else. We're all connected wirelessly, all DHCP. Most of these folks are Education people, not CS folk.
I figured that we'd get them all browsing and using a Swiki. But we gambled: We handed them a CD, and Je77 led them through INSTALLING THE SERVER *LIVE*. (The guy running XP asks, "Does this run on Windows XP?" We respond, "Don't know. Never tried. Let's go for it! :-)") EVERY USER WAS SUCCESSFUL! They even accessed each others' servers! Try doing that with Java...:-) Mark -- -------------------------- Mark Guzdial : Georgia Tech : College of Computing : Atlanta, GA 30332-0280 Associate Professor - Learning Sciences & Technologies. Collaborative Software Lab - http://coweb.cc.gatech.edu/csl/ (404) 894-5618 : Fax (404) 894-0673 : [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cc.gatech.edu/gvu/people/Faculty/Mark.Guzdial.html
