From: smirzo@example.com   
      
   D  writes:   
      
   > On Fri, 7 Mar 2025, Salvador Mirzo wrote:   
   >   
   >> D  writes:   
   >>   
   >>> On Wed, 26 Feb 2025, Salvador Mirzo wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> These days, even computer science departments are completely based on   
   >>>> Google services, say.  Students don't even have the chance to run the   
   >>>> local mail server.  It's appalling.   
   >>>   
   >>> Not all hope is lost! ;) My courses are based on linux and for the   
   >>> cloud part, they are based on our own OpenStack environment! =D   
   >>   
   >> Yay---a 4-leaf clover. :P  Seriously, though: good job.   
   >   
   > Thank you! =) I'm hoping that I will be able to convince another   
   > school to dump Azure in favour of our OpenStack environment. Would be   
   > wonderful to have combatted the forces of darkness, and won, at two   
   > schools! =)   
   >   
   > They like the fact that I can give them a fixed price per student and   
   > month, instead of the shitshow that is Azure pricing. They also like   
   > that the school gets a dedicated server, so should someone break in   
   > and do crypto mining, they won't get a large bill like they do with   
   > Azure.   
   >   
   > More often than you would think, do student credentials leak to github   
   > and then they pay for someone crypto mining. That problem they won't   
   > have with my environment. =)   
      
   Wait---is that service you provide yourself for a price?   
      
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