Updated delegate computers - nine of the best
Archive - Originally posted on "The Horse's Mouth" - 2014-04-10 20:13:08 - Graham EllisAlbany - Caerphilly - Dharan - Edinburgh - Frankfurt - Guadalajara - Helsinki - Kingston - Liverpool.
Nine notepad computers all rebuilt with Ubuntu 12.04 (LTS) for upcoming courses. A mid-life refresh, if you like. Starting with next week's Linux Course covering Linux basics, Linux Admin overview and web (httpd) and MySQL server building and support. The machines are also loaded with C, C++, Expect, Java, Lua, Perl, Perl6, PHP, Python, Python3, Ruby, Tcl/Tk and Tomcat (in alphabetic order!) ready for other courses in following weeks.
These days, many delegate use their own computers during our courses and that's something we encourage where the subject being taught is a programming language. It means that delegates can work in the operating system and environment in which they'll be working after the course too. It means they can keep their examples easily. It means they can use their own data should they wish. But I always carry one or two systems with me on site so that I can demonstrate / so that people can use my data and examples even if they're not allowed them on secure company systems, etc.
Brugges - Izmir - Juneau ... remain unrebuilt. Izmir and Juneau are instantly recognisable as they have blue cases rather than red ones - bought that way for different uses, and serving those uses admirably internally to this day. Brugges had a slight accident (a.k.a. a certain company insisted it go in checked in baggage, in which their gorillas managed to break the screen) and it now runs as a network server. Motto - never trust a gorilla with a computer ...