Comments on: Session Proposal: Going off the grid. http://aha2012.thatcamp.org/12/31/session-proposal-going-off-the-grid/ The Humanities and Technology Camp Mon, 04 Feb 2013 20:24:54 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.12 By: Ben Brumfield http://aha2012.thatcamp.org/12/31/session-proposal-going-off-the-grid/#comment-78 Tue, 03 Jan 2012 02:12:31 +0000 http://aha2012.thatcamp.org/?p=330#comment-78 One approach I’ve heard about in the corporate world is to use cloud computing to completely circumvent IT-department restrictions. In one throwaway comment at the beginning of the Amazon Web Services book, the author suggests that if you can’t install the clients needed to run interact with their services on your own machine due to IT policy or machine lock-downs, you just spin up a windows machine on EC2, connect to it using a terminal server (which is likely built in to your OS), then install all the development tools there.

I certainly haven’t tried this, but in theory you and your students and/or collaborators would only need to be able to connect to the net from the on-campus machines, and all the rest would be under your control and at your cost.

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