Hello all, Its a good news bad news thing. First the bad news.

Once again, human error triumphs. I had intended on giving a demo of 
linux clustering to the members of an windows XP pro class that I am 
attending at PVCC.

Based on info I had, the computers in the classroom should have worked 
with PXE booting. In the event that they wouldn't I decided to bring 
another computer that I know works. Unfortunatley, the classroom 
computers wouldn't boot and I brought the wrong power cord for my backup 
computer, so I couldn't get a cluster going.

Now for the good news. There was MUCH interest generated. The interested 
parties were the instructor of the class, the night time sys admin of 
the PVCC computer lab, and 3 class members, one of whom is a sys admin 
with the Tempe school district. None of them had ever seem linux in 
action. I did have my laptop, running redhat 9.0 to show them and also I 
did boot up the clusterKnoppix disk so that the could see a linux desktop.

For the first attempt at this demo, I had to lobby to be allowed to do 
it. After last night, I was invited by the instructor to try again next 
week.

2 of my fellow students are going to bring their laptops with them. I 
will prepare boot disks from romomatic.net so that we can add them to 
the cluster. I am also going to create boot disks for the classroom PCs 
with romomatic. Lastly I am going to bring my spare computer again with 
the proper cords. We WILL have a cluster going next week.

The person most interested was the Tempe sysadmin, he really sees some 
benifits in clustering, manily in how the CPU cycles and memory of 
older, less powerfull machines can be aggregated to give each user much 
more power than they otherwise would have.

In my first post I did make some negative remarks regarding windows. 
This, I realize was inappropriate. Regardless of whether a person 
percives the quality of MS operating systems as good or bad, I now 
realize that this is not the forum for such comments. I am going to 
restict my further comments on this forum to linux and keep my views on 
MS, whether positive or negative, to myself.

As always, any comments, criticisms or recommendations are welcome.

Charlie
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