i hope Raju sir can help us to create one system in IT lab. On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 3:16 PM, Manu Krishnan T.V <tvmanukrishnan@xxxxxxxxx > wrote: > > > On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 8:46 PM, Sajjad Anwar <sajjadkm@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Upload it to your files section at aeneous server, which is accessible at >> http://aeneous.coolwrks.com/jishnu/. It could handle around a 200 >> downloads per month. Can move to somewhere else if it runs out of bandwidth. >> Has a plan to buy a hotfile premium account. So, we could move it there >> later. >> >>> Also, we have a system running in CSE Multemedia lab, which has apache. >>> So, may be we can use that for sharing in our college LAN. The IP is >>> 192.168.1.4 and I think its accessible throughout college. >>> >> >> Nice! >> Jishnu, why don't we start that machine in CSE Lab to share more such >> stuffs? >> >>> > Earlier(Before the multimedia lab was upgraded), we had such a plan and we > were alloted a system by CSE Dept. But the system was damm slow, had no > drive and just 40G HDD shared along with WinXP. It was around 2 years back, > while Mahesh and Shyam was at college. Gradually, all lost interest due to > the low performance of system and when the lab was upgraded, it was also > taken away. > > Current IP's 192.168.1.3 and 1.4, which are accessible throughout college > Lan were installed with mint, for our mini project. They too have limited > storage and don't know when they will be formatted to install the college's > default os, the RHEL :( > > Last few days, I was at NIT Calicut for their annual technical fest Tathva, > representing MESCE and ZYXWARE at the FOSS Hut. There, they have a system in > their lan, providing a good collection of needed downloads(including > GNU/Linux, BSD iso files, study materials for labs, etc) and also acting as > a local repo for Ubuntu, Debain and Fedora. I think it will be great if we > could also implement the similar feature at our college. There will be lot > of people interested to maintain such a system as it will be a good learning > experience. > > I have seen lot of people downloading the CD images of Ubuntu 10.10 few > days after its release from our lab. Duplicate downloads are consuming a lot > of bandwidth, which is really costly at both ends. With a local server, we > could avoid it to a great extend. Also, it could be used by staff to share > study materials for students. There are lots of slides accessible only for > teachers which could really be helpful for the students at the last minute > rush of exams :) We could also use the same system to share/store the > presentations of seminar, projects and their reports, so that it will be > helpfull for all. > > All these can be done as what we need is just a system with enough a > reasonable storage, connected to the college lan. Don't know whether it will > be accessible from hostel by default, but CNC can suely make it accessible. > > @milad Me too waiting for Mint10 final release, now running RC > > -- > Regards, > Tvm a.k.a Bizzard > > Find me @ Bizzard's Hackshop - http://www.bizzard.info/ > > Quote: I'm not a HANDSOME guy. But I can give my HAND to SOME one who needs > help. Beauty is in heart, not in face..!! - A.P.J Abdul Kalam > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "MES-FSUG" > group. > To post to this group, send email to mes-fsug@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > mes-fsug-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/mes-fsug?hl=en > > Our IRC channel #mes-fsug at irc.freenode.net. Webpage for GNULabs @ MESCE > is at http://gnulabs.org/mesce/ > -- (¨`·.·´¨) Always `·.¸(¨`·.·´¨) Keep (¨`·.·´¨)¸.·´ Smiling! `·.¸.·´ jíکhńú http://blog.thecodecracker.com http://twitter.com/jishnu7 "The box said 'Requires Windows 7 or better'. So I installed GNU/LINUX..." -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "MES-FSUG" group. To post to this group, send email to mes-fsug@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe from this group, send email to mes-fsug-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mes-fsug?hl=en Our IRC channel #mes-fsug at irc.freenode.net. Webpage for GNULabs @ MESCE is at http://gnulabs.org/mesce/