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Laptop Carts and the NComputing Solution
Started this discussion. Last reply by Mike Karlin Jun 16, 2010. 53 Replies 0 Likes
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Mike Karlin replied to David Roth's discussion 'Laptop Carts and the NComputing Solution'
David
I represent VCOM International Media Corp - one of our divisions (Buhl Industries) may have the solution you are seeking concerning laptop carts. Laptop Carts can be found at:
http://www.buhl-ind.com/store/c/351-Carts.aspx
You may also want…
Jim D replied to David Roth's discussion 'Laptop Carts and the NComputing Solution'
Janine, we are waiting for the no CPU, no motherboard, no hard drive, dummy laptop coming out from Fiddlehead. It has nothing in it except a small LCD screen, keyboard, and trackball, and a low power transceiver. It runs off of the 32 or 48 user…
Janine replied to David Roth's discussion 'Laptop Carts and the NComputing Solution'
Were you curious about usage or just the tech support aspect? We have been using them for about 4 years now, and they are as integrated as a #2 pencil ever was. :). Biggest tech issues were a set of cheap, short life (only good for about 70 minutes…
Jim D replied to David Roth's discussion 'Laptop Carts and the NComputing Solution'
Agreed. I am an absolute FOSS advocate. Unfortunately we are stuck with running MS applications. We are using Fiddlehead to not only save money and time legally, but we are really using it to move from M$ to FOSS...Office to OpenOffice...etc.
Jim D replied to David Roth's discussion 'Laptop Carts and the NComputing Solution'
We are running Linux on one head, Windows XP on a second head, Vista on a 3rd head and Windows 7 on the last head. ...and you can run Linux applications from within any of those heads just by clicking the application icon, just like native.
Jim D replied to David Roth's discussion 'Laptop Carts and the NComputing Solution'
I agree and that is what we saw when we implemented nComputing. The only problem was that it didn't work with many of our educational softwares. We couldn't run Moviemaker (it gave the error - "A copy of this is already running.…
Jim D replied to David Roth's discussion 'Laptop Carts and the NComputing Solution'
We love the LTSP solution. Much easier to implement than building a Citrix/Terminal Server solution. Problem is that we have to be able to support Microsoft applications for our schools and it is hard to do that using LTSP. Fiddlehead has been a…
Paul Anderson replied to David Roth's discussion 'Laptop Carts and the NComputing Solution'
The last advice that we got, was to purchase a server license, and terminal server cals for all stations. Same goes with Office, need cals or licenses for each station. With all other programs, you most likely need to have a license for each station…
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- At 2:26pm on March 21, 2009,
Scott Dorn said…
David, I noticed your post and questions on laptop carts. If you need assistance in the future feel free to contact me. We manufacture a full line of carts for laptops, from mini's to extended life battery models. We exhibit annually at 6-10 conferences in CA so you can probably catch one of us at a show as well. Take care and best of luck for the rest of 2009!
Sincerely,
Scott Dorn
Vice President
SPECTRUM INDUSTRIES, INC.
1-800-235-1262
sdorn@spectrumfurniture.com
- At 8:53pm on December 27, 2008,
Alyshia Olsen said… - Hi David,
I'm sending out messages to everyone I know right now, and this classroom20 network is no exception. (I've also sent this out on other Ning networks you may be a part of.) My name is Alyshia Olsen; I am a 20 year old college student from Olin College of Engineering. I am a part of a group of 6 Olin College students (we're in Needham, MA, and engineering students) who has taken a year off to work on an education related project. Since you are in the 'connecting content and technology' group, I thought you might be interested! Our project is called AlightLearning, and this is our "short" project description:
Under the assumption that within ten years, the landscape of modern education will have fully integrated what we now define as new classroom media: video, online collaboration, open source curriculum and other web tools, we hope to pioneer a web software tool that acts as a platform for this new media, bringing the power of the web and its tools to students, teachers and parents in a secure, comfortable and innovative environment. Our goal is to have our free software at a pilot middle school by April 15th, 2009, continuing to develop and coordinate with our users to create a product that other schools want to pilot and use at their schools, while allowing individual teachers to implement this tool in their own classroom.
Our project, titled Alight Learning, is currently trying to win an idea competition on Ideablob.com You can find us at http://ideablob.com/3975 . We would love your support in the form of a vote within the next couple days, but more importantly we'd love your feedback and comments. Our description on Ideablob is short, and even the one above hardly gets at many of the issues we would like to take a stab at solving, but at least it's a start.
Feel free to email me back, check out alightlearning.com, anything you like!
Thanks,
Alyshia Olsen
anotherdayaway42@gmail.com
- At 5:07pm on April 12, 2008,
James Edward Charles Webber said… - hi from South Korea
Jim
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