Math Support Center Sign-In Sign-Out Form

FYI:

• The laptop is intended as a dedicated station for sign-in and sign-out.
• Firefox is configured with the sign-in page as its home page.
• The network connection is minimal -- only the sign-up server is accessible.
• If someone quits Firefox, just relaunch it from the desktop icon.
• If the laptop seriously misbehaves
  • Press the Power button until it powers off
  • Wait a few moments
  • Press the power button to turn it back on.

Geek details:

• Yes, it's really booting from a floppy.
• Yes, its OS and configuration are all on the 64Meg USB Pen Drive.
• Yes, its limited network access is configured elsewhere.
• Yes, it's accessing a different machine.
• Yes, it's running Linux. DSL Linux -- Google:DSL+Linux
• Yes, it's modern Firefox running on a laptop with:
  • 300 Mhz Pentium MX processor
  • 64Meg RAM
• Yes, it's likely I will strip superfluous stuff from the desktop.

The Logging system is web-based using an open-source CGI for maximum flexibility in choice of both client and server. Currently (Spring 2008) the client laptop is on a dedicated network connected through a NAT firewall to the ITO network. A machine in the ITO hosts the cgi and collects the data.

Feel free to drop me a note if you're interested in more details.

Cheers,

-Dick

• MSC_Sign.pdf: Signs directing students to the laptop.

• Library_CGI-Executables.tgz: cgiemail binaries for PPC Mac

• mscSites.tgz: ~msc Sites Snapshot