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Re:Tell HN: My horror story as a student dealing with my Uni... by wmf on Saturday March 28, 2009 @06:39PM (#536863)
In college I often sshed from my computer into a lab computer, so I didn't really need the physical lab. Of course, maintaining servers may cost almost as much as maintaining a lab. Maybe preconfigured VM images are the answer.
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Re:Tell HN: My horror story as a student dealing with my Uni... by sketerpot on Sunday March 29, 2009 @04:33AM (#537230)
People ssh'd into a computer are seldom using all of its power. A big multicore server with plenty of RAM can support quite a few users more economically than individual computers. This is part of the reason why people invented timesharing OSes in the first place.
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