<div>Check in with your local County Office of Education or local county gvt office.  On Fridays, they hold a county surplus sale, everything electronic that the county has can be transfered into our inventory wihtout cost as its "recycling".  I managed to get all 15 classroom HP 4000 network printers(yes they are old but they work and its just ordering 1 type of tonor rather then 15 different ones :)  I also picked up a full set of functional 32 hp vectras for student pc's, (pIV 1.4 gig, 800 fsb).  And occasionaly sometimes you get real gems.  We picked up 4 HP 2100's with nics that the county library had.  Their counters red  7 to 9k wich isn't too bad for a used printer.  they replaced them as their grant paid for new ones.   If you are a member of a school district, they occasionally have the same sales as well.</div> <div> </div> <div>Good hunting,</div> <div> </div> <div>Lt. Don E. Davie</div> <div>La Sierra Military Academy<br><br></div> <div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 9:31 AM, Jeffrey LePage <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jeffrey_lepage@yahoo.com">jeffrey_lepage@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Greetings,<br><br>At our school we have a bunch of old laptops (vintage 1999, PII 400MHz, 256MB RAM).  Believe it or not they're still fairly functional.  They're running Xubuntu, but with openbox instead of XFCE.  With openbox and a few other tweaks I've been able to extend their useful life significantly.  However, we really need to get some better hardware, or find a better solution.<br> <br>I tried to get LTSP running on these machines, but because of the lack of  PXE support in pcmcia I was unable to get a decent LTSP setup running.<br><br>I was wondering: has anyone used VNC or other remote desktop technologies as an alternative to a full-fledged LTSP setup?  If so, does sound work?<br> <br><br>--<br>Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments.<br>See <a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html" target="_blank">http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html</a><br><font color="#888888"><br> <br><br><br>--<br>ubuntu-education mailing list<br><a href="mailto:ubuntu-education@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-education@lists.ubuntu.com</a><br>Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-education" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-education</a><br> </font></blockquote></div><br>