 
The
Ardence Solution
There
is no disk drive inside the desktop PC it boots using PXE
from the Ardence server and when the user enters their credentials
the PC displays the desktop image appropriate to that user
at that time, for instance it could be class 4 at 14:00 on
a Tuesday therefore the PCs are loaded with the current History
curriculum material. There is nothing else on the machine
and no facility for fiddling with it, if a student does break
something a simple power off and on will load a fresh image.
The
power of this solution is demonstrated by way it is used in
the USA where whole school districts use the master images
served by a central server. They have thousands of students
using thousands of diskless PCs all served by the central
Ardence server(s) thereby eliminating the requirement for
IT technicians to be stationed in each school continuously
repairing hacked or virus affected PCs.
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