C@P Project Update: January 25th, 2010

Mike Lovell of tintedgreen.net has posted a new update on the Lake Echo IT Greening Project. 

This article is syndicated from http://tintedgreen.net/?page=article&id=16

Now that the pilot C@P site in Lake Echo has been running for a few months, I thought I would share some pictures of the results.

Computers old and really old running the latest version of Ubuntu.

The server has been running perfectly since it was first booted up. The virtual machine running the terminal services hasn't had any problems.

The server in its cabinet at the C@P site.

How easy is it to add a computer to this setup? All it requires is to turn on the computer, enter the bios setting, and changing the boot order so the computer boots from the network first.

Changing the boot order so boot to network is first.

Now the computer will automatically boot into Linux from the server.

That's it. It could not be easier. A person with enough knowledge to hook up the wiring could setup a new computer on this network. Also, no changes are made to the computer, so if you wanted to leave the computer's old operating system in place (just in case) you can. The user can always set it to boot from the hard drive again, if needed. This setup also allows the C@P program to take donations of computers that do no even have hard drives.

Now that we have this setup, we can maintain, backup, and fix the virtual machines running these computers remotely. From my office, in Halifax, I can see exactly what is happening on these machines.

Here are a couple more pictures. If you have any questions, feel free to contact us.

Running a Monty Python video flawlessly with sound.