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Title:	TCJA $B$H0l=o$K(B web $B$G;R6!$?$A$r$D$+$^$($h$&(B
Author:	Wilko Bulte <wilko@tcja.nl>

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Technisch Creatief Jeugdcentrum Arnhem ($B=L$a$F(B TCJA) 
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$B$3$NJ8>O$K4X$9$k5?Ld!"0U8+!"(BTCJA $B$X$N@_Hw$d6bA,$N4sB#$K4X$7$F$O(B

Wilko Bulte (wilko@tcja.nl) 
Rene de Vries (rene@tcja.nl)

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Stichting Technisch Creatief Jeugdcentrum Arnhem
Arnhem, The Netherlands			http://www.tcja.nl
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Title:	Getting kids on the Web with TCJA
Author:	Wilko Bulte <wilko@tcja.nl>

What is TCJA?  TCJA is the Technisch Creatief Jeugdcentrum Arnhem (or
TCJA for short) in Arnhem, The Netherlands.  TCJA loosely translates
to "Technical and Creative Youth Center."

The TCJA is a foundation, in existence for over 25 years, that has the
goal of popularizing scientific and technical subjects for kids from
10-20 years of age.  Emphasis is put on getting women into the TCJA's
activities since, in the Netherlands, women in technical or scientific
disciplines are a very rare phenomenon. In fact, the influx of
students in almost all technical studies has been declining over the
past few years.

We try to archive our goals in ways that kids appreciate, not putting
them into class rooms but giving them instead the opportunity to
obtain hands-on experience with the subjects at hand.  Subjects range
from chemistry, photography, electronics, silk screen printing, wood
and metal working, and last but not least computer related fields.

In order to make all this possible, TCJA has their own (rented..)
building with a small paid and a much bigger unpaid volunteer staff.
Money and equipment is donated by the government, companies and
individuals.  TCJA is currently struggling to get enough funds
together to survive, so please feel free to donate funds if you feel
our efforts make sense.

Computers at TCJA
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As we've already mentioned, a lot of equipment is donated and our
computing infrastructure is no exception to this rule.  We run a
thinwire ethernet network with Cabletron hubs that connects all
systems to a single LAN. The network involves 6 Sun SparcStation IPC,
a Sun SparcServer 4/470 and 9 486DX and one 386DX based PC machine.
The Sun machines were a gift from Philips Electronics and Sun
Netherlands, the PCs were partially bought and partially donated by
Digital Equipment. We even have Sun equipment that was donated by a
generous guy in California (thanks Gary!)

In this network 5 tabletop 486DX2/66 boxes run MS Windows for Workgroups
and Netscape Navigator for Web acces, a 486SX33 runs our administration 
(also with WfW). A 486DX/33 is run with MS DOS to allow computer-aided
printed circuit design. 

The remaining 2 PC machines are more interesting, they both run
FreeBSD 2.2.1-Release. Both boxes are 486DX/33 EISA based Philips
servers. One of them is dedicated to NFS serving both the Sun boxes
and (using Samba) the PCs with WfW. The Sun SparcServer 4/470 is also
run as an NFS server, it also handles the diskless boot of the Sun
IPCs. All Suns run SunOS.

The other one is the more interesting one: it is our gateway to the
Internet. It has been dubbed 'dontpanic.tcja.nl', a name taken from
the cover of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (although we admit
we christened it this way in the hope it will live up to it's
name. Sofar it has done so brilliantly)

Dontpanic has recently been upgraded from a 28K8 modem to an ISDN/PPP
link using a Teles 16.3 interface board. Since all our Sun and PCs
tend to be run at the same time, especially in weekends, we are
running a caching Apache proxy server on it to limit actual ISDN/PPP
link traffic as much as possible. The ISDN link uses the bisdn/ppp
patch package which we adapted slightly for our specific needs. The
ISP runs Silicon Graphics machines, by the way.

To protect our network from the evil outside world (and probably also
to keep our adventurous kids from hacking on the Internet too much ;-)
dontpanic runs a customised version of the TIS firewall tool kit in
addition to a set of ipfw filters using FreeBSD's kernel based
firewall.  Apart from its networking duties, dontpanic also serves as
our local mailhub (POP for the PC Eudora or Netscape clients, NFS mail
spool for the Suns), a local Apache Web server (more on our Web stuff
in a moment), a local DNS server and as the printhost for an Apple
LaserWriter postscript laserprinter (again with Samba for the WfW
clients, and lpd for the Sun/FreeBSD machines).  It's perhaps not
entirely recommended to have all these functions running on the
firewall box, but we have to use what we have in this case.

We are currently in the process of migrating all our Sun disk storage
to SCSI disks, the Sun server used to have 6 900Mbyte SMD disks and
one 1.3Gb IPI disk. For reasons of power consumption and heat
production, donated SCSI disks are taking their place.

Our Web presence
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An organisation like ours of course also must have it's own Internet
domain registration and a Web server. Thanks to some kind souls a
386DX/40, 8 Mbyte and 300Mb ESDI disk now lives under the name of
www.tcja.nl It is of course also running FreeBSD, 2.1.0R in this
case. Because it is 20 miles away we tend to leave it alone as much as
possible. So far, only a single unscheduled intervention has been
needed after a machine failed to reboot properly after a power
failure.

Although the previous hardware description probably sounds like a
sorry excuse for a webserver we have (knock on wood) impressive
uptimes to report.  As of today it has an uptime of 112 days, and that
is only because it had to be powercycled to add an UPS.  Uptime before
the UPS was also 100+ days.

It is well connected to NLnet, being almost on the NLnet backbone at
the Nijmegen University. So please feel free to take a look at
http://www.tcja.nl . It is mostly in Dutch, but an English abstract
has been provided and quite some photographs help to get the idea
across.

If you are interested in the quality of the power grid in Nijmegen you
can ask our intelligent UPS by checking http://www.tcja.nl/ups . A
Java applet will draw you diagrams of the previous 7 days.

Apart from (Apache) serving our web pages, the machine also handles
our email traffic. All mail to tcja.nl is UUCP-queued at www.tcja.nl
and grabbed from there by dontpanic.tcja.nl whenever the ISDN/PPP link
is up. This may sound a bit strange to US-based people, but there is
no such thing as a free permanently connected phone/ISDN line here in
the Netherlands. You always pay a metered fee, so queueing is the
answer if you don't want to go bankrupt.

Our experiences with FreeBSD
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So, what do we think of FreeBSD? You've probably guessed it already:
we are more than just a bit happy with the performance and reliability
of FreeBSD. We started in the dark ages with 386BSD 0.1 + patchkit,
and have never regretted doing so.

In the course of events a considerable number of people that saw our
setup work in the way described have converted to FreeBSD. This
included a number of Linux adepts but also WinNT users are currently
contemplating the move. You could say we act as a technical evangelist
group that can show a proven track record in the use of FreeBSD.

FreeBSD has proven to be very stable, adaptable to local needs (thanks
to the availability of source code) and economical. Even with our
sometimes questionable and limited hardware resources the reliability
of the total system has proven to better than commercial operating
system offerings.

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Any questions about this article, general remarks, or even a proposed
donation of equipment or money to the TCJA can be sent to

Wilko Bulte (wilko@tcja.nl) 
Rene de Vries (rene@tcja.nl)

Stichting Technisch Creatief Jeugdcentrum Arnhem
Arnhem, The Netherlands			http://www.tcja.nl
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