Internet State Technical Information

We now have the Internet back. Functions are being upgraded as well. That is the state of that. We have Charter for our ISP.

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Internet State Technical Information

There is now no Internet for the time being while the household gets it's finances straightened out.

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Ad Technical Information

If you are looking for an explanation of the ads being here, and why, please look on my other blog. If you would like to know the technical details of the ads, look no further than here.

The ads are done via adsense by google. Right now they are pending approval.

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LMS Technical Information

The Learning Management Systems (LMSs), are hosted. We do not currently host any of them ourselves. For the first, we use a free talent LMS account. For the second, we use a free Instructure Canvas Account. For the third, we use a free schoolology account.

In all cases, we use the free editions, so there is currently no cost to us. It is rarely beneficial to have a cost to us, so we only use the free editions of these LMSs.

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main1 and vmain

main1 is now basically an infrastructure for virtual servers. vmain is what does the work main1 used to do. main1 is running Windows 7, and vmain is running Mandriva Linux 2010.1.

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main1

We've been playing around and planning for which OS to use underneath the vmain server. We've tested and therefore chosen Windows 7. We might be able to upgrade it to Windows 10, and have it still work okay. It works, we're proud to say, so we are no longer stuck in one spot. Now we can continue.

It does change the definitions of the main1 server and the vmain server slightly though. Now main1 does basically nothing, because Windows 7 can basically do no server work, and vmain does all the work instead, since Linux can be used as a great server OS. We've stuck with Mandriva Linux 2010.1, because Mageia Linux just isn't ready for our needs yet. I hope Mageia eventually produces something usable for us, so that we can upgrade to Mageia Linux. In the meantime, we will use Mandriva Linux.

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I wish we could have made our current version of Linux work for what we are trying to do on main1, but it looks as if we are going to have to try to change Linux flavors again to get main1 AND the virtual servers to work!


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