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re: Serving Software...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Technical Services)
Fri Mar 4 10:38:36 1994
Date: Fri, 4 Mar 1994 10:08:34 -0500
Reply-To: Mark.I.Berman@williams.edu
From: Mark.I.Berman@williams.edu (Technical Services)
To: resnet-forum@MIT.EDU
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> From: SMTP%"dolanj@ucs.orst.edu" 3-MAR-1994 17:59:06.66
> To: resnet-forum <resnet-forum@MIT.EDU>
> Subj: Serving Software...
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> I have looked at a number of the Web sites that have been pointed
> out here (on this forum) and from what I have read at those sites and
> from what has been discussed here I gather that no one is currently
> serving software to students (other than internet access utilities etc.)
> Is there a reason that no one is doing this? Is it in the plans eventually?
Actually, we do serve software to the students. We may reevaluate this
policy if it proves too expensive, but currently we provide full access to
server based software just as if they were in one of our PC labs. We are
using Keyserver to regulate access to Macintosh based software and are
evaluating mechanisms to do the same for PCs. Right now our dorm connections
are 95% Macintosh so the PC usage doesn't amount to much.
>
> Part of what we are doing here at OSU is trying to build a
> "virtual lab". What I mean by this is that rather than devote resources
> to open access student computing labs we are trying to give the same sort
> of access to students in thier home. Initially the residence halls and
> then ??? I plan to serve software like CAD programs for example, that
> students would need for certain classes that they couldn't afford to
> purchase on thier own machines. I would also like to provide a wide
> variety of needed software that again perhaps are too expensive for the
> average student to purchase.
This is why we are doing it too.
> Are any of you looking at the same thing, or is the focus now and
> in the future just to give access to information resources.
We specifically want to allow students to do the work in their dorm rooms
that they had, in the past, to travel to our labs to accomplish. This
includes access to course specific software and drop folders/directories as
well as to software tools to access our CWIS and other network resources.
- Mark
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Mark Berman Mark.Berman@Williams.EDU
Director, Technical Services
Williams College, Ctr. for Computing
Williamstown, MA. USA 01267 (413) 597-2092
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