On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 9:51 AM, Luiz Felipe Martins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'd love to try that, actually. Could you send me what I need and, > perhaps, a few pointers?
Sure, but it will have to wait until tomorrow because I have to have physical access to the server, and I won't until tomorrow (Friday). William > > On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 11:59 AM, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 7:50 AM, Luiz Felipe Martins >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> Thanks for the response and the tips. I agree. When I saw the notebook >>> server at work >>> I thought: wow, this is the way things ought to go. There's a lot of >>> stuff to digest on the threads you suggested, I'll tell how I'm doing >>> as I go along. >> >> Could you figure out if something very much like sagenb.org would >> work for you? If so, I can literally just give you a copy of sagenb.org, >> which is nothing more than a VMware virtual machine running on >> the desktop in my office using VMware workstation. I can delete all >> the particular user data from sagenb.org from it, change the password, >> and just give it to you (or anybody) to use. >> >> -- William >> >>> BTW, I found the following in the Wiki: >>> >>> http://wiki.sagemath.org/DanDrake/JustEnoughSageServer >>> >>> Anybody had any experience with it? >>> >>> >>> On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 10:11 AM, kcrisman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>> You didn't say if this is a classroom lab (so all of your students will >>>>> be using >>>>> Sage at once) or a math computer lab for out-of-class homework (so >>>>> students >>>>> will go in at random times, convenient for them). Others can answer your >>>>> questions more definitively than I but I think their answer will >>>>> depend on the number of >>>>> students using Sage at the same time. >>>> >>>> I agree. Marshall, you've done the computer lab situation, right - >>>> any thoughts? >>>> >>>> The out-of-class-time situation definitely calls for the server, I >>>> think, because otherwise people have to make that trek to the computer >>>> lab without any real reason. As long as you have enough memory and >>>> are able to make sure not too many students use it at once, it should >>>> work; there are several threads on sage-support about this, e.g. >>>> http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support/browse_thread/thread/6735e88260cc079/4bfcd447910d26cd >>>> or >>>> http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support/browse_thread/thread/b57c78d4e01a30ed?q= >>>> the latter one addressing the possibility of having multiple ports. >>>> >>>>> > 3. Set up a Sage Notebook server. Pros: easy for students to use, >>>>> > access their work from anywhere in the world. Cons: have no idea how >>>>> > to do it. (I can get help setting up a web server, that is not the >>>>> > problem, the question is how to set up Sage and the notebook server. >>>>> > The web server, and Sage, would be running in a Ubuntu server). >>>>> >>>> >>>> I agree with David on this one; I think it is the kind of thing that >>>> is not too hard (Sage is pretty robust, and so is VMWare). It will >>>> take a little effort to set up - but I think not too much, and once >>>> our sysadmin got it running he said even I could learn how to reset it >>>> in case something crashed, which is saying something. >>>> >>>> Good luck! The notebook server aspect is a really nice feature of >>>> Sage for education, because it makes things so convenient for students >>>> that they might actually do more than they expect... and that's a good >>>> thing. >>>> >>>> - kcrisman >>>> >>>> > >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> "The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and >>> not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive >>> happiness, and relations of friendship or affection." >>> -Bertrand Russell >>> >>> L. Felipe Martins >>> Department of Mathematics >>> Cleveland State University >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> >>> > >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> William Stein >> Associate Professor of Mathematics >> University of Washington >> http://wstein.org >> >> > >> > > > > -- > "The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and > not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive > happiness, and relations of friendship or affection." > -Bertrand Russell > > L. Felipe Martins > Department of Mathematics > Cleveland State University > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-edu" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-edu?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
