Chaos Lab

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My name for a home self study lab. With access to the DMZ and a place to install things like Windows Server 2008. More of a dream lab or a wish list, better to use the club school lab. The lab is for maintaining a PC harddrive with operatings systems and developer tools, maintaining a web presence and being on the DMZ.

...The Computer Science Lab. Install removable drive racks and keep a set of software for the freshman labs. It allows rapidly changing the hard drive keeping the standardized classes safe and allowing the club and freshman classes to rapidly adapt to current interesting software. We call them the FED drives or Friggin' Experimental Drives.

cyberguys drive condo for the home lab.

http://www.cyberguys.com/templates/SearchDetail.asp?productID=17678

$50 Easier to manage drives. Right now I just keep my case open and swap the IDE cable. The condo would make that process a little more secure and cleaner.

www.polywell.com has a DDR3 gaming rig that amoung other things has the removable drives shown in a picture. The thing that brought this to my attention is that removable drives are still cool. Coolness is important and gaming machines (rigs) tend to be good benchmarks. The second thing is that gamer types tend to look at lab equipment and if they see old Pentium 4s. They tend to walk out and not come back. I have a theory that the best computers should be in the begining classes. The advanced students can deal better with the older PCs.

$3099 Poly P3503-G-1DT

High-End Gaming with GeF8800

Intel Core2 Duo E6850,

2GB DDR3 1333MHz,

2x 74GB SATA 10K RPM,

500GB SATA-II 7200 RPM,

NVIDIA GeForce 8800-Ultra 768M PCI-E,

Windows Vista

Gamming Rig Link Just to give you the idea. Check out the handle curves in the front where the drives are. That is two removable racks.

CSITPROF.COM

Is a place for learning. I try to involve all my students in maintain a web presence here. With Linux hosting I can have a 1000 FTP accounts in addition to my accounts and the domains I host.

Blogging is cool, but I only have ten mySQL databases and this has to be rationed. Authorware software desired by the students. However it is expensive and difficult to move sites between the software. Standard FTP and notepad is always in style eh? With AJAX knowledge of XML, PHP, JAVASCRIPT, CSS and HTML is needed. For me at least notepad is the way to go. Sure it may drive students away, but the ones you keep are definately committed to the command line. That has to be helpful learning JAVA or programming operating systems which are still recommended by ACM Computer Science Curriculum. Though the 1991 date makes me wonder if there is an update that will finally eliminate the command line notepad thinking.

Another advantage to the chaos lab is that you can install all the browsers from browser wars on your drive to test software development for the web. You wouldn't want to do this on your primary PC as all the extra development software might conflict. You could maintain the developer chaos drive and your regular drive without confict by using the removable drives. Or multiboots with large hard drives. Although, this too has drawbacks and special considerations.

DMZ

Home DMZ versus school DMZ. Better to work on this at home (except for the risk with letting anonymous users into your home network. See zombie spam, botnets and security stuff. This would be the ultimate LAMP experience but risky.

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