Archive for the ‘IT Infrastructure’ Category
Tuesday, February 15th, 2005
We don't run Exchange in my district, and nothing we've seen makes our email admin eager to give it a try. We're also a cross-platform district which makes finding an email and calendaring solution that works equally well for everyone quite a challenge. As of today, and thanks to the ...
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Wednesday, February 2nd, 2005
The Pew Internet & American Life Project has a new report that describes how Americans' use of the Internet has changed in the last few years. The report concludes that "The Web has become the 'new normal' in the American way of life," but I was most interested in their ...
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Monday, January 24th, 2005
The International Open Source Network (IOSN) has just released a primer on Free/Open Source Software (FOSS) in education. The document highlights uses of open source software in the infrastructure, administration, and classroom work of schools, focusing on a number of high-profile projects such as the Linux Terminal Server Project (LTSP), ...
Posted in IT Infrastructure, Open source, School Management | 3 Comments »
Tuesday, December 14th, 2004
Linux Magazine has a good introductory article describing Asterisk, the open source telephony software. From the Asterisk features page:
Asterisk-based telephony solutions offer a rich and flexible feature set. Asterisk offers both classical PBX functionality and advanced features, and interoperates with traditional standards-based telephony systems and Voice over IP systems. Asterisk ...
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Saturday, November 27th, 2004
Right on the heels of my recent post about building city-wide wireless networks, Robert X. Cringely has a article at pbs.com entitled Land Grab where he describes how Wal-Mart, or any other similarly gigantic nation-wide retail outfit, could use its locations to install WiMax hotspots that would cover 1,000 square ...
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Friday, November 19th, 2004
A couple articles have surfaced in the last week or so about large scale wireless deployments in Seattle and Taipei. These cities may be on the cutting edge, but the wireless revolution is coming to a city or town near you within a few years.
According to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer article, ...
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Saturday, November 13th, 2004
The most recent survey of students in our school district indicated that nearly 90% of them had computers in their homes and the vast majority of those had connections to the Internet. Unfortunately, I don't think that information tells the whole story. If we're really concerned about the digital divide ...
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