[efh] Demonstrating code in the ACTLab?

[Drake Wilson]

Quoth Allucquére Rosanne Stone <sandy at actlab.utexas.edu>, on 2007-03-12 11:12:08 -0600:
> You can certainly boot the main boxen from a CD, but you'll have no 
> connectivity.  An alternative way might be for Cynbe or me or Joe to 
> bring a Linux box or laptop to class.  You could test the setup 
> before we bring it in, then hook the video output directly into the 
> computer input on that black hulk near the dimmer board.  Click -- no 
> problem.

That's probably better if it's not too inconvenient, yes.  All I have
is AMD64 binaries, and it's hard to find AMD64 live distributions, and
fetching the compiler would be difficult with no network.

> By the way, we hope to go dual boot to Linux on most ACTLab machines 
> next year.  We were ready this year, but the tech staff asked us to 
> slow down so they could explore the situation, particularly to find a 
> way for UTIT, Microsoft-like, to control all Linux boxen remotely as 
> they do now with Macs and PCs.

Eeeagh.  Is mass SSH with public-key authentication not good enough
for them?

> -Sandy

   ---> Drake Wilson
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