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About this project I called BOOST |
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The name 'BOOST' was first of all choosen because of the verb 'to boost' (as in 'to strengthen' or 'speed up'). But it is also an abbreviation of the following:
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Best Optimization Of Setup Time
- exactly the right description for what I've been trying to do: In the beginning some classroom setups used to take several hours (with many mouse-clicks involved). Now they only take about 1 hour, while I'm just sitting back as "Lazy Administrator" to watch how it goes.
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Better Organization Of Same Tasks
- the tasks I performed to setup classrooms are the same. I just use a different approach.
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Bunch Of Occult Setup Tools
- probably the content of this project is "occult" to the uninitiated, as is this geek humour.
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Bunch Of Open Source Tricks
- most of the tricks are made possible by existing open source software. I thank the community for that.
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Being Of Old School Type
- I received many suggestions to use the HP product 'Rapid Deployment' to install multiple systems instead of writing my own solutions. In the end I'm probably more of the old-school type (UNIX-oriented). An advantage here is for instance that I combined the old-school NFS-Root solution with the new technology BitTorrent: You can call the result 'Rabbit Deployment'.
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Binding Object Oriented Scripts Together
which applies mainly to the PHP user-interface I've written: After a rewrite of the PHP scripts to make them more object-oriented, it became much easier to extend the existing functionality. Also I made good use of the existing PHP PEAR classes.
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BSD Offers Often Same Things
- though I've tried everything only on Linux systems, all tricks should work as well under BSD systems.
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 04 January 2006 )
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