pyaolyangshen - Slashdot User

Comment Its about time (Score 1) 363

by pyaolyangshen on Wednesday February 10, 2010 @05:01PM (#31090620) Attached to: Google's Experimental Fiber Network

They own a friggin satellite, they Own so much space of the intranet, I'm not surprised they'd out the other big companies who sell tiny gateways to individual consumers - We could have easilly had faster connection but these companies tend to restrict how much. The intranet is incomparably VAST!!!!! So hell yeah, why wouldn't Google want a piece of that market, and They will totally kill the competition with their generous connection plans. HAH. - and thanks lucian.

NZ School Goes Open Source Amid Microsoft Mandate 305

Posted by kdawson on Monday January 25, 2010 @02:43AM from the kiwis-and-penguins-sittin'-in-a-tree dept.

Dan Jones writes "Kiwis have built an entire school IT system out of open source software, in less than two months, despite a deal between the New Zealand government and Microsoft that effectively mandates the use of Microsoft products in the country's schools. Albany Senior High School in the northern suburbs of Auckland has been running an entirely open source infrastructure since it opened in 2009. It's using a range of applications like OpenOffice, Moodle for education content, Mahara for student portfolios, and Koha for the library catalogue. Ubuntu Linux is on the desktop and Mandriva provides the server. Interestingly, the school will move into new purpose-built premises this year, which include a dedicated server room design based on standard New Zealand school requirements, including four racks each capable of holding 48 servers for its main systems. The main infrastructure at Albany Senior High only requires four servers, suggesting an almost 50-fold saving on hardware requirements."

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