Dick Sblog

After advocating the possible benefits of the OLPC device (which isn’t available in the UK yet) to cut costs of IT replacement in schools in my article on Seb Schmoller’s mailing, I’ve had my attention drawn to the RM Asus - a well reviewed linux machine with open office for c£220. One benefit is a hard reset button as an alternative to calling out technical support. If it can be configured with remote access then they could be really useful to use as thin clients and run a lot of applications from the school server using Terminal Services.  (thanks to Scott Jones, Schools IT Officer, Bristol)