<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 3:24 AM, John E. Kreznar <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jek@ininx.com">jek@ininx.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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In a posting purporting to be from Dan Kegel <<a href="mailto:dank@kegel.com">dank@kegel.com</a>> but<br>
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> It seems unlikely I'll be able to convince anyone to use Linux<br>
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</div>Have you tried the argument that software that students are forbidden<br>
to read has no place in a school? How do they respond? (Or are you<br>
not counting "Ubuntu" as "Linux"?)<br>
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John E. Kreznar <a href="mailto:jek@ininx.com">jek@ininx.com</a> 9F1148454619A5F08550 705961A47CC541AFEF13<br>
Would you allow your child to be taught from a book that she was<br>
forbidden to read?<br>
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</blockquote></div><br>Dan,<br><br>Rule of thumb with schools: if you can move it, you'll be replacing it within a year. Hopefully, your private school sets aside a portion of funds for replacement of equipment. Kids break stuff...easily. Ordering a few extra is not a bad idea.<br>
<br>We've saved money in some our classrooms through the use of N-computing boxes (<a href="http://www.ncomputing.com/">http://www.ncomputing.com/</a>). If you are going to have pods (four or more) computers in each classroom, you are looking at spending about $2000 per room. With the Ncomputing box, you buy one computer and the Ncomputing kit and three or five monitors for about $1000 per room. Not to mention, you save money on buying tables and you save money on power consumption.<br clear="all">
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