[Reader-list] HOWTO: Temporary Media Lab, Setup a

[Aniruddha Shankar]

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evan wrote:
| Not to be critical, but you seem to be talking about using pretty high
| end hardware.  (description of Terminal server setup)

and

| There are also a number of projects now in the works to let you put
| four heads on a single box.

Evan, thanks for your comments :), I'll definitely be exploring the
less-cash-heavy side of things. The main reason I've kept the computer
configuration relatively overpowered is that it's much easier for
someone who is not very technically proficient to set up a media lab
running on equally-powered peers than it is to configure Remote X (the
remote graphical display) and Network Audio Sound (piping the sound for
all computers through the network). Since we work heavily with Complex
Text Layout scripts (Hindi and, soon, Urdu), it's difficult (but not
impossible, yes) to map non-us complex keyboard layouts across the
network. I've been following the Brazilian 4-head computer project and
it looks really interesting but, again, difficult for someone who is not
a hardcore techie to install, configure and get working. Everything in
the lab specs that I have given below can be configured graphically with
no need to drop into the command line, especially if you're using a
consumer-grade distribution like SuSE or Mandrake or one of the
friendlier Debian variants.

But yeah, it's definitely worth looking into .... maybe for the next
media lab :D

cheers,

aniruddha "karim" shankar
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