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Possible School Assimilation

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Viztech

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I'm back in the saddle volunteering at the school, so I have the opportunity to assimilate a bunch of older machines. I'll be creating images in the next couple of weeks.

The lab will probably be 15 P3-450s with 192 RAM, running Win 2000. I will have ready access to these.

Teachers will have K6-2 400s with 64 RAM, running 98 SE.

Most machines will be used only a few hours a day unfortunatly, but will have access to the 'net via a proxy server.

I'm running DPAD now, which should be fine for the Win 2000 machines, but unacceptable for the 98SE machines.

Is there a good project for the old K6-2s with Win 98SE? Integration should be seamless on this OS and use very little RAM.

Thanks for your thoughts.

viz
 
Yeah, Lifemapper will do great! 😉 If the client needs to run in the background, I only know of DPAD that can...You can let it run in the background, turn autosend off, and just ones a week or a month, cut the results.txt files to another pc and send it from there. 😉
 
Hey viztech 🙂 You might also consider UD Cancer. For one thing, you can schedule what hours the client will and won't run, and the memory footprint isn't too crazy. It has a screensaver-only mode for the slowest rigs to use, and it's another project with a goal that no one's likely to object to. However, I don't see a way to make it run invisibly, so that's a detriment.
 
Thanks for the suggestions guys. I'll look into those.

Another concern is frequent client upgrades. I just want to install it and let it fly for the year. 🙂

Good to see you again Mech! The big guy sure was good while I wasn't looking. The storeroom was full of good stuff when I rumaged through it this evening. I wish you were here to help though.

We got about 10 or 12 P3-450s in AOpen cases, 96-128 Ram, 4 to 6 gig drives, MGA video, a 3C905 NIC and 48x CD Rom drive. I have some more RAM to get them up to speed. There's more 15" monitors than we can use, so I can cull out the poor ones.

We have more 10 BaseT hubs than I'll need and we already have a 10/100 switch to segment the hubs.

The Campaq server that you helped with a couple years back is running mail services and a few other things. Another Dad takes care of the server.

I'm not sure where your old K6-300 is. The Bible teacher was using it the last I knew..

viz
 
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