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- What the heck is a thin client?
- My mom is neither an educator, nor a technologist, but she has taken to reading my blogs anyway (group, "Ahhhh", please). She actually runs a gourmet tea and spice company based just a few miles from Microsoft corporate headquarters (weird, huh?). She'll occasionally send me an email asking...
- Tags: Training for the masses, Education Technology, Classroom Tech
- Blog posts 2007-08-01
- Evaluating thin clients from a position of strength
- All too often our schools (and even our colleges and universities) turn to thin-clients as a 'last resort' to address severe budgetary constraints without regard for other alternatives which can also reduce costs without sacrificing needed computing resources. Many view thin-clients as a one-stop solution which fixes easy-to-identify problems within an existing infrastructure. Often...
- Tags: K-12, Higher Ed, Funding, Emerging Tech, Education Technology, Classroom Tech
- Blog posts 2007-07-27
- OpenSUSE 10.3 may not include LTSP support
- In a recent post I reported that OpenSUSE would be adding LTSP support to compete with Edubuntu in their upcoming 10.3 release, along with several other educational tools in a "SLEDucator CD". I must admit that I was pretty excited. My experiences with Edubuntu and *buntu have been...
- Tags: OpenSUSE and Ed Tech, Open Source, Education Technology
- Blog posts 2007-07-19
- Thin clients...Lessons learned
- Were up to 55 thin clients in our library, main computer lab, and a small testing area now, rolled out and working pretty well. As many as 200 students a day use these machines in class and usage is up significantly over the previous labs. Do they work...
- Tags: Education Technology
- Blog posts 2007-05-09
- These things are awful!
- Fortunately, this isnt a quote from my users as I continue to roll out thin clients. It is a quote from a fellow teacher at another school where thin clients have been in use for some time. "Have you tried doing teacher training on these things? Ever...
- Tags: Education Technology
- Blog posts 2007-04-05
- Hey, these actually work!
- OK, so Ive only rolled out a third of the thin clients planned for my school, but theyre actually working. Not that I didnt expect them to work, but theyre working really well. As Marc Wagner has pointed out, networking will most likely be my nemesis here and...
- Tags: Education Technology
- Blog posts 2007-04-01
- Vista? No thanks, school says, converts Windows boxes to Linux
- Despite the hype around Microsoft Vista, some schools are not convinced its the best thing going. One northern California school has made sweeping changes to the schools IT system, converting 5,000 Windows PCS to run Linux, either as full-powered desktops or thin clients, reports Desktop Linux. Windsor, CA...
- Tags: Thin clients, Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Windows Vista, thin client, Heather Carver, Microsoft Windows, Linux, server, Citrix Systems Inc.
- Blog posts 2007-03-08
- There's no room for bias in academia
- Whenever I sit down to review the comments posted about an article written by one of my fellow bloggers, I am struck by the level of bias that abounds among our readers. To be sure, there are zealots on almost every subject under the sun but sometimes our readers...
- Tags: Classroom Tech, Education Technology, Funding, Hardware, Higher Ed, K-12, Policy
- Blog posts 2007-03-07
- Tablets? Notebooks? PDAs? Mac Minis? Supercomputing grids? What should you buy your users?
- Every user is different and brings a host of requirements to the table. I received a fair amount of mixed feedback to my post "Should I have bought those Mac Minis?" A few readers applauded my understanding of my Mac-loving users, while others told me I should stick...
- Tags: Education Technology
- Blog posts 2007-03-04
- K-12, Higher Ed, Apples, Oranges...
- My colleague, Marc Wagner, and I have written a couple of articles lately on thin clients and we have fairly different perspectives on them (The truth about thin clients, and Why you should actually pay for thin clients). Marcs been in this game a little longer than I have...
- Tags: Education Technology, thin client, K-12
- Blog posts 2007-01-11
- The truth about thin clients
- I could not agree more with Chris Dawson that, given the choice between cobbling together parts from a bunch of lame PCs and buying new thin clients, that buying new thin clients is the proper choice to make see Why you should actually pay for thin clients but before you...
- Tags: Education Technology, thin client
- Blog posts 2007-01-08
- Why you should actually pay for thin clients
- We all know that you can make thin clients for free out of all those junky computers in your classrooms, closets, server rooms, and wherever else you can stash them. Just a bit of effort and some surplus hard drives later and youre in business, regardless of your server...
- Tags: Thin clients, thin client, dumb terminal, PC
- Blog posts 2007-01-07
- Save some money this year
- Everyone loves saving money, and probably us Ed Techers more than most. Ive stumbled across a few spiffy money savers in the last month or so that I wanted to toss out for consideration and would welcome Talkbacks from anyone who has some more (or who utterly disagrees with...
- Tags: thin client, computer, OEM, Education Technology
- Blog posts 2007-01-03
- So about those thin clients...
- Im writing this post from my new and now somewhat infamous laptop. More importantly, Im connected to my LAN wirelessly under Linux. Whoo Hoo! After lots of fussing with ndiswrapper and SUSE this weekend, I pretty well hosed the networking portion of my SUSE install. I have...
- Tags: Terminal services, Microsoft Windows, Thin clients, Operating systems, Instant messaging, OPEN SOURCE, Edubuntu, Ubuntu, Linux, Linux Terminal Server Project
- Blog posts 2006-11-06
Additional Resources
- Cloud Computing and Its Security in Higher Education
- Interest in cloud computing has witnessed a significant surge in the past few years. The basic tenet of this concept entails the reduction of in-house data centers and the delegation of a portion or all of the Information Technology infrastructure capability to a third party. This holds the promise of...
- Tags: Education, Security, Cloud Computing, Data Centers, Virtualization, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
- White papers 2009-11-03
- Edubuntu followup
- Sharing knowledgeWell done and thank you! Knowledge sharing at it's best.In the first Edubuntu blog post you asked us readers a technical question, and now, in the second Edubuntu post, you provide us with a summary of the most useful solutions.This is how knowledge sharing within the ZDnet community should...
- Tags: Thin clients, OPEN SOURCE, thin client, Edubuntu, Linux
- Discussion threads 2009-08-07
- Google Gears = no more Office/OpenOffice for students
- Google Gears = no more Office/OpenOffice for studentsWow. Google sure is smarter than Microsoft.What can I say, I was bored.Why it won't work today but can be fixedWhy it does not work today:1) Math. It's everywhere. Especially in higher education. No equation editor, no go.2) Note taking. Microsoft Office...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, Tablets, OpenOffice, Live Mesh, Google Inc., Google Gears, operating system, Microsoft Office
- Discussion threads 2009-01-26
- Could Jobs' departure = good news for education?
- Could Jobs' departure = good news for education?Affordable?There seems to be a re-definition of affordable all the time. When technology and PCs first showed up at education's doorstep, $2000 for a machine was acceptable. Then the continued push for lower and lower priced machines came and continues.There is a difference...
- Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, ROI/TCO, Apple Inc., education, netbook, job
- Discussion threads 2009-01-15
- Can I live in the Cloud for a week?
- As we talk more about thin clients, netbooks, social networking and other devices in Ed Tech that really lend themselves to cloud-based computing, I have to ask myself, could I live in the Cloud? In the ideal little technically-savvy, netbook-driven world I'm concocting in my head, I'm certainly expecting...
- Tags: Student, Teacher, Netbook, Food & Beverage, Productivity, Flash Memory, Manufacturing, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-01-11
- MiniFrame SoftXpand
- After I posted on Ncomputing (see Ncomputing: Sharing the power of a single computer), MiniFrame's PR agency contacted me and asked that I take a look at SoftXpand. At first glance, it appeared that MiniFrame was walking down the same path that many others had taken, creating technology in the...
- Tags: PC, Operating System, Hardware, Graphics, Computer, GPU, MiniFrame SoftXpand, Productivity, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-12-16
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