Hi John,
Nice to see a fellow Wisconsinite on here!
Many of the libraries in the WVLS system do just what you're thinking about
doing. That is, they utilize Deep Freeze to maintain systems' states but
also utilize fairly open configs for patron computers. Standard local user
accounts vs admin a
This is cross-posted on LITA-L. Apologies if you're seeing this twice.
We're in the process of making some updates to our public computers and I
thought I would survey the crowd to see what people are doing to lock up access
to the 'guts' of the computer.
The computers are all running Windows 7
On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 03:08:51PM -0400, Nate Hill wrote:
> So VirtualBox allows you to feel like you are switching your OS without
> rebooting, correct?
> A user can, for example, fire up a Mac and then if they want to launch a
> Windows environment they can do so with a double-click, yes?
> Than
I used VirtualBox on a personal machine for a while, mostly because I
needed pc specific applications and I had a mac at home. It is a little
slow, but that could probably be partially addressed by allocating your RAM
a little differently. And can also be a little tricky to configure properly
if yo
These virtualization tools run as apps in OSX. Double-click (wait...) and go.
VirtualBox is owned by Oracle, which picked it up from Sun who bought it as a
way to promote Solaris on the desktop (We know how well that worked out). Like
MySQL, it is free for now, but no guarantees.
Other virtuali
It would cost more because you would want at least the base i7 version ($799)
if not the faster model.
We have tried the base version, and did not think that performance was
acceptable either with VirtualBox, or with the somewhat better performing
Parallels. Your mileage, of course, may differ.
So VirtualBox allows you to feel like you are switching your OS without
rebooting, correct?
A user can, for example, fire up a Mac and then if they want to launch a
Windows environment they can do so with a double-click, yes?
Thanks all for your thoughts on this, it is helpful...
On Mon, Aug 12,
I have had to deploy workstations in this way before, here is what I
recommend:
option 1: If you are doing simple web browsing and word processing, create
a CD with Ubuntu (you don't even need a hard drive in the computer.
option 2: If you need simple web browsing and word processing, but with a
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On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 12:56:12PM -0500, Cornel Darden Jr. wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The issue at public terminals is being able to switch between operating
> systems with out having to reboot. To my knowledge refit nor boot camp offers
> this.
They weren't designed to do that. You can use Policy Upda
Why would it cost >$1k++?
We have the 2.5 Ghz dual core i5 ($599 new) which we upgraded to 16GB ($131.99
via Crucial.com - no doubt there are cheaper alternatives). Runs Windows fine
in a VM (although, like you, I really only use it for IE testing).
Certainly this doesn't account for keyboards
Hi,
The issue at public terminals is being able to switch between operating systems
with out having to reboot. To my knowledge refit nor boot camp offers this.
Thanks,
Cornel Darden Jr.
MSLIS
Librarian
Kennedy-King College
City Colleges of Chicago
Work 773-602-5449
Cell 708-705-2945
> On Aug
On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 11:57:21AM -0400, Nate Hill wrote:
> Is anyone on the list using mac computers and bootcamp or some other
> partition to offer public access to either a mac or windows environment for
> their users? This seems like ti could be a pretty cool option to present
> folks with.
>
Aside from the aforementioned support hell issue, a Mac Mini that would run
Windows 8 and Mountain Lion or Mavericks with decent speed would cost over $1k
++. I run them both on my fairly maxed-out two year old MacBook Pro, and while
the results on the PC side are acceptable for what I need — mo
On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 11:57:21AM -0400, Nate Hill wrote:
> Is anyone on the list using mac computers and bootcamp or some other
> partition to offer public access to either a mac or windows environment for
> their users? This seems like ti could be a pretty cool option to present
> folks with.
>
If you want to go with Mac Minis (which, having had to use one as my primary
work machine for the last two weeks while my Macbook was in the shop, seems
like a perfectly inexpensive and awesome choice), I would probably just max out
the RAM on them and opt for putting Windows in VirtualBox (or i
I think that you would be diving down the support hell rabbit hole if you did
this.
Personally, I think that iMacs or Mac Minis make awesome public workstations
OOTB.
Cary
On Aug 12, 2013, at 8:57 AM, Nate Hill wrote:
> Is anyone on the list using mac computers and bootcamp or some other
> p
Is anyone on the list using mac computers and bootcamp or some other
partition to offer public access to either a mac or windows environment for
their users? This seems like ti could be a pretty cool option to present
folks with.
Any thoughts on the matter? I'm trying to figure out what to repla
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