Blog Entries tagged 'thin-clients' http://www.siriusit.co.uk Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:18:06 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.siriusit.co.uk/myblog/thin-clients-revisited-2.html The future is green, Open Source and Nintendo! <img style="float: right; margin-left: 15px" src="/uploads/images/generic/nintendo_wii.jpg" alt="Wii" /> <p>My principle interest has always been the use of Open Source thin-client solutions in an educational context. Its worth stating, again, what is really the blindingly obvious - thin-client work stations use one twentieth of the power of a typical PC (10-20 watts versus 200-400 watts), require no maintenance or technical per-machine support and [...] jspencer Wed, 16 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0100 VLEs thin-clients Open Source Schools ICT Moodle Learning Platform Innovation Inkmedia Elonex One Eee Desktops Advocacy http://www.siriusit.co.uk/myblog/linux-in-schools-can-save-the-planet.html <p>In the past few weeks I have written several articles for this blog deprecating at length the wasteful power consumption of ICT facilities in schools and suggesting alternative strategies to tackle the problem. I do not intend to do go over the ground again because you can only hector folk for so long on one topic. In any case I don't need to, since wonderfully, the Cardinal Wiseman CTC in Birmingham has recently deployed the UK's first zero carbon ICT facility.</p><br/><br/><p>The facility went l [...] jspencer Wed, 26 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0100 thin-clients Power Consumption Open Source Schools ICT Open Source Linux Innovation GPL Environmental Elonex One Eee Desktops copyright