On Oct 15, 2008, at 4:26 AM, Martin Albrecht wrote: > > On Wednesday 15 October 2008, Jason Grout wrote: >> I used opensourcecms.com quite a bit when I was evaluating CMS >> systems >> because it was a no-hassle, anonymous way of playing with >> systems. It >> didn't bother me that it was reset every 2 hours; in fact, I liked it >> because I didn't have to worry about someone else messing up the >> system >> (I just waited a few hours until the next refresh). Can we do the >> same >> thing for Sage? Run it in a virtual server (even the current VMWare >> one would do), and every day, or every few hours, reset it. Curious >> people can play around with Sage, and those that want more than a >> temporary playground can then install it on their own or request an >> account on William's server he mentions above. > > I like this idea, it also emphasises that this is a server to > evaluate Sage > not a replacement of an installation of Sage for doing research and > stuff.
I think this is a good idea too. Being able to say "just go to this site and try it out" is very good for getting people to try it out and play around with it, and the load will probably go down overall if "serious" users are forced to actually get a copy. I'd imagine with appropriate ulimits and multiple virtual servers, something could be set up such that anything that accidentally (or maliciously) happens on one server would only kill that one, and only until it is freshly reset (say, a after a given number of hours). - Robert --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
