On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 4:17 AM, John Watlington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In existing deployments (not trials) content filtering
is being done upstream in the internet connection.
Interesting! I didn't know that -
Content filtering is a very sensitive subject, and any
offering made by OLPC
Hello List
Just from my (not too recent) experience with the Birmingham deployment:
There are two competing interests:
- As long as the Board of Education (BoE) receives federal funds under the No
Child Left Behind Act they are responsible for providing internet only in a
filtered manner
You keep pushing for centrally hosted school servers.
Are you sure you don't work for the phone company ?
Again, unless you have a 100 Mbit connection from the
school to the upstream ISP, you will need something with
a disk and a significant amount of memory present in the
school.
I don't
On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 8:00 PM, John Watlington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You keep pushing for centrally hosted school servers.
Are you sure you don't work for the phone company ?
Last time I checked, San Francisco State University wasn't in the
telco business.
Again, unless you have a 100
One idealet (not worthy of being called an idea): What if the server
were a laptop that the teacher could take with him/her? Pros: The
school need not be secure. Cons: Price, and of course, laptops can be
stolen. But it does put the server in the hands of a presumably
trusted individual in the
On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 11:24 PM, Walter Bender [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
One idealet (not worthy of being called an idea): What if the server
were a laptop that the teacher could take with him/her? Pros: The
school need not be secure. Cons: Price, and of course, laptops can be
stolen. But it
Actually, Walter, we still hold hope for XOs as school servers
for very small schools.The problem with this is insufficient
memory and insufficient disk space. While an external disk
may alleviate the second problem, it has poor reliability and
is a very attractive item for theft.
But
Until Sugar has a better model for collaboration, anything over about
500 users is moot. (Thanks for testing it all the way up to 2K users).
The problem is that the laptop UI will try to show all the users on the
server in the neighborhood view... Can you try to connect an XO
to the server
Thanks for your point about the 'headless' server. The install usb must
ensure that ssh access from an XO is sufficient to complete the install
process. As far as I know all of our installed servers will be headless.
This means the first two 'tests' should be changed:
1. Reboot the server
