Re: Apropos CUPS

2015-11-19 Thread Ralf GESELLENSETTER
Ciao Giorgio, Am 17.11.2015 21:52, schrieb Giorgio Pioda: > I also tried to control this switching on/off the ipp protocol on > the printers (all of them are connected to the fixed network), but > I got no success. This reminds me to a recent situation, when I set up cups on raspbian; depending o

Re: Problems with rosegarden manual?

2015-03-15 Thread Ralf GESELLENSETTER
Hi Petter, how are you? Just guessing - but as a sequencer, Rosegarden is very much dependent on Midi devices. If there is no physical extern sound modules, it can make use of virtual synthesizers such as timidity or fluidsynth. The package of rosegarden only suggests awesfx to manage sound banks

10 years old thin clients to let (hardware give away)

2014-11-14 Thread Ralf GESELLENSETTER
Dear friends of free educational software, as some of you may know, my former role as school admin was outsourced, so I am just a first level servant, more or less. Next step is tidying up our stock of hardware in school. Just in case there is anybody needing one of these devices, I'd be happy to

Re: using htacces for user-websites

2014-06-04 Thread Ralf GESELLENSETTER
Hallo Sebastian, willkommen auf der Liste. I'll write on in English. If you prefer German answers, I'd switch to the German user list (which is not as populated as this one). Am 25.05.2014 18:28, schrieb sebastian.holl: > Hello, > ho to configure htacces for the user-websites "www/~username"? I

Re: upgrade to 7.1 and migrating users

2014-03-05 Thread Ralf GESELLENSETTER
Dear Petter, thank you for sharing your script. A colleague from a school nearby failed to upgrade from Debian Edu 6 to version 7; I hope that your script can assist them to migrate there users. Another issue seems to be that users cannot access their homes from clients. I will point my colleague

Mass deployment - can we learn anything from this project?

2014-01-27 Thread Ralf Gesellensetter
Hi folks, Oliver just pointed to this example of mass deployment on the German user list. I wonder what we can learn from it, in your opinion? http://www.pennmanor.net/techblog/?p=1821 "Welcome to the Laptop Machine" Posted on January 15, 2014 by Charlie Reisinger "Penn Manor’s 1:1 student lap

Q: Small system for Mini ITX as stand-allone surfstation

2014-01-14 Thread Ralf Gesellensetter
Dear friends of Debian Edu/Skolelinux, currently, I try to recycle some (approx. 10 years) old thin clients (Epia Mini-itx) as stand allone surf stations. Trying to boot any recent kernel makes the system hang; my research gave hints that the current kernel misses some firmware to support this ch

Fwd: [slx-www-int] project skolelinux in Polish school

2013-12-17 Thread Ralf Gesellensetter
Original-Nachricht Betreff: [slx-www-int] project skolelinux in Polisch school Datum: Sun, 15 Dec 2013 10:51:35 +0100 Von: Rafał Głowiński Organisation: Poznaj Poczte WP http://poczta.wp.pl/info-start.html An: www-...@skolelinux.no Hello I'am from Poland.In February 2014 year

Re: internet slow, but tjener not busy

2013-11-07 Thread Ralf Gesellensetter
Am 07.11.2013 05:04, schrieb Nigel Barker: > Where should I be looking to locate the problem? Dear Nigel, how are you. I assume all users are running the same version of iceweasel from within your LTSP server? Did you check if other browser applications are affected likewise? Or if stand alone m

Tools to convert dhcpd.conf -> CSV text file

2013-09-17 Thread Ralf Gesellensetter
Dear list, to check regularily on new / misconfigured clients, I use mostly grep and other cl-tools. Now, I am looking for a more sophisticated tool to get a csv from /var/lib/dhcp3/dhcpd.leases Apparently, there are some tools like dhcpd status, but most are thought to be run as cgi module. Ev

Re: Generic Screenshots in all debian packages? // Re: golearn and debtags - something is wrong

2013-05-11 Thread Ralf Gesellensetter
Hello Philipp, thanks for clarifying. Am Samstag, 11. Mai 2013 schrieb Philipp Huebner: > It wouldn't help to include screenshots in packages as you would need to > install them first to be able to actually view the screenshots. > => golearn would depend on all the packages it is show-casing Rig

Generic Screenshots in all debian packages? // Re: golearn and debtags - something is wrong

2013-05-10 Thread Ralf Gesellensetter
Hello all, Am Dienstag, 7. Mai 2013 schrieb Petter Reinholdtsen: > [Andreas Tille] >> I tried goscience and noticed that there are way too less screenshots >> displayed. > > I know we made some effort to have screenshots for most of the biology > > related X applications but there are close to n

Alternative: LibreOffice >=3.6

2013-04-19 Thread Ralf Gesellensetter
Hi there, please allow me to keep you up to date with my findings: I just managed to install LibreOffice 4.0.2 from their deb packages, containing cdrlib, and impressingly, all items of some Corel Draw file (2 pages Geography exam including text & graphics) are imported without any flaw into Libr

Re: RFD: Can we use on KDE for our international, multi-platform project?

2013-04-08 Thread Ralf Gesellensetter
ag, 2. März 2013 schrieb Ralf Gesellensetter: > Dear friends, > > once, and now, it turns out that in a multi-platform network > with international encodings, we produce file names that > are not compliant to the official codebase of their filesystem. > > After some research

suggestion for bug#311188 // Re: Report from Debian Med Sprint

2013-03-08 Thread Ralf Gesellensetter
Hey Jonas, how is it going? Am Freitag, 8. März 2013 schrieb Jonas Smedegaard: > I argue that even though all Debian Edu packages are in Debian, it can > only be installed outside of Debian. Reason for that is bug#311188. First thought coming into my mind: You can't install a fish tank from wit

RFD: Can we use on KDE for our international, multi-platform project?

2013-03-02 Thread Ralf Gesellensetter
Dear friends, once, and now, it turns out that in a multi-platform network with international encodings, we produce file names that are not compliant to the official codebase of their filesystem. After some research (1st I thought it was just dolphin to blame), I found out, that this problem affe

Re: Question regarding ... // Fwd: Frage zu KMail und DisklessWorkstations

2013-02-03 Thread Ralf Gesellensetter
Hi folks, thanks for direct replies to the poster, or to the German list. The exact error message on diskless clients, according to Sven, states: "postoffice.intern: SASL(-1) generic failure: GSSAPI Error: Unspecified GSS" No probs with ordinary workstations... I suppose, some of you will know

Re: Please help golearn (from the goplay package) become more useful for Debian Edu

2013-01-09 Thread Ralf Gesellensetter
Am Dienstag, 8. Januar 2013 schrieb Petter Reinholdtsen: > You need to wait a bit for the index to update. Not quite sure how > long it take. Thank you, works now, is this a feature or is it a bug? I think xapian could improve its guessing... Parley seems to be missing as vocab trainer on 1st s

Re: Please help golearn (from the goplay package) become more useful for Debian Edu

2013-01-08 Thread Ralf Gesellensetter
Dear list, happy new year to you all! Dear Petter, thank you for getting back to goplay, a tool that was last mentioned 5 years ago as for the German user list (I just posted an update). I just got stuck after installing goplay in my debian sid system: from http://cdn.debian.net/debian/ sid/m

Cronjob regarding holidays?

2012-12-20 Thread Ralf Gesellensetter
Dear list, now, our school closes for approx. 2 weeks, hence I had to stop some cronjobs that are responsible to wake up our displays (wake on lan) each morning. Of course, I have to remember reacticating them in January. Hence I wonder if there is any approved approaches / extensions to cronjobs

Re: Git is fun, Git is pretty, Git is useful, so why not using it?

2012-04-03 Thread Ralf Gesellensetter
Am Sonntag 01 April 2012, 17:19:26 schrieb David Prévot: > P.-S.: no, it's not an April fools prank Hi everybody, recently I found some minutes to use svn for updating some minor scripts. Of course, I am willed to learn git as well, some day... BTW: any migration work in progress? I am having pr

Re: Problem/Blocker: ~/.mozilla blocks login

2009-02-16 Thread Ralf Gesellensetter
Okay, today I had a more meaningful error message from an etch based system. And I got a lucky hand and happened to remove the right file at once: ls -l .mozilla/firefox/xy22.default/ 1656725 Dec 1 09:32 XPC.mfasl In another case this file had a timestamp of Dec 10, but I am quite sure

Re: Are we ready to release 3.0r1?

2007-11-25 Thread Ralf Gesellensetter
Am Sonntag, 25. November 2007 16:00:19 schrieb Petter Reinholdtsen: > This is not done yet.  Some work is done on the PR material, but it is > not quite yet complete. Hi, for the PR material it could be nice to have some skolelinux lab in action. I started collecting such motifs, but as for licen

Re: Problems with Netinstall (Workstation)

2007-10-18 Thread Ralf Gesellensetter
Am Donnerstag, 18. Oktober 2007 15:42:46 schrieb Bjarne Nielsen: > I have had problems with netinstall several times, usually it says wrong   > md5sum. The strange thing is that I used a cd to install from yesterday,   > today I took the cd out of the first server, and put it in to another, and >  

Re: Translation status for the installation questions (6 done, 16 not done)

2007-07-19 Thread Ralf Gesellensetter
Am Donnerstag 19 Juli 2007 00:47 schrieb Maximilian Wilhelm: > Done. > (Written in vim as 'apt-get install poedit' want's to fiddle around > with cpp and gcc packages) > > See de.po attachment. Hi Max, thank you for this fast and good job. Just two comments (to be discussed): I consider "Maschin

Article on KDE usability for Kids

2006-11-30 Thread Ralf Gesellensetter
http://reallylinux.com/docs/linuxforkids.shtml is a must for reading ;) This URL just came over the kde-edu list. Have fun Ralf. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Spanish translation for webmin-ldap-user-simple

2006-02-07 Thread Ralf Gesellensetter
Am Montag, 6. Februar 2006 22:42 schrieb Patrice Neff: > How can I add translations to the version of webmin-ldap-user-simple   > that will make it on the CD - and thus on version 2.0 of Skolelinux?   > I have translated the module into Spanish and would love to see it   > included in version 2.0 a

Re: d-i shrinking NTFS partitions?

2006-01-06 Thread Ralf Gesellensetter
Am Freitag, 6. Januar 2006 16:00 schrieb Joey Hess: > ie, alredy implemented since ages, though mysteriously nobody ever tries > to do this, even though we've now renamed the line to "Resize > partition". Hey Joey, thanks a lot for clarifying. It is really shocking to realize how much oneself te

Re: d-i shrinking NTFS partitions?

2006-01-06 Thread Ralf Gesellensetter
Am Freitag, 6. Januar 2006 08:53 schrieben Sie: > Then I guess it should be entered into bugzilla, or into debian BTS. > > > Now, I expect your comments eagerly ;) > > Maybe I will comment if the feature request is added into bugzilla Hi Finn-Arne, before adding it to the BTS (this is what I mean

proxy.pac

2005-10-31 Thread Ralf Gesellensetter
hi there, did anybody out there try to install some central proxy defining pac file? something like this: function FindProxyForURL(url, host) { return "PROXY webcache.intern:3128"; } I should be grateful for any documentation and further hints for different brands of browsers (also: transp

Re: [slx-www-int] Want to help with translation

2005-10-06 Thread Ralf Gesellensetter
X-Post, please Reply-To: debian-edu@lists.debian.org Dear Yus, dear list, as I feel, there is too few people reading [www-int], I take the ocasion to bring this topic to the main list: Few days ago, Yus offered translating Debian-Edu to Indonesian (> 300 millions of inhabitants) supported by a

auto negotioation / was Re: nscd problem

2005-09-22 Thread Ralf Gesellensetter
Am Dienstag, 20. September 2005 16:22 schrieb Ralf Gesellensetter: > if the trouble keeps going, I will > downgrade to      2.3.2.ds1-22. hi, this is what I did. The problem goes on - but is not a server problem - but below TCP/IP: I can stop the lagging by one of: /etc/init.d/netw

Re: Get happy! (Request for translation no->en)

2005-09-22 Thread Ralf Gesellensetter
Am Donnerstag, 22. September 2005 10:05 schrieb Conrad Newton: > Student Projects thank you, conrad, very much. for now I posted it to http://skolelinux.de/wiki/StudentGroups next steps: - translate to German (and other tongues) - drop into plone (or drop plone;) regards ralf -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: nscd problem

2005-09-20 Thread Ralf Gesellensetter
Am Dienstag, 20. September 2005 11:11 schrieb GesellensetterRalf: >      2.3.5-6 0 hi there, for now, I only upgradet libc6 and nscd to 2.3.5-6 for now. Yes, I alread realized that this is a testing version - if the trouble keeps going, I will downgrade to 2.3.2.ds1-22. installing a pr05

Re: icewm

2005-09-19 Thread Ralf Gesellensetter
Am Montag, 19. September 2005 23:01 schrieben Sie: > Hum that is a little out of my lead but is a start > point I will have to do more enquiring in the subject > of mirroring to do what you sugest ; but it sounds > pretty good and it might be what I am looking fore (a > client thin enough to be abl

Re: [Fwd: International Debian-Edu Gathering]

2005-09-19 Thread Ralf Gesellensetter
Dear Finn-Arne, I feel like having pulled some rope that I didn't mean to pull. I know that you do a lot for our project - and I really appreciate this, really. Am Montag, 19. September 2005 20:55 schrieb Finn-Arne Johansen: > I dont understand why people are sending me private emails that conc

Re: icewm

2005-09-19 Thread Ralf Gesellensetter
Am Montag, 19. September 2005 22:06 schrieben Sie: > How do I tell the installer to use ICEWM instead of > kde when installing the W/S profile? Dear Doug, as you might know, Skolelinux/Debian-Edu is very convenient to install - because everything is done automagically. I don't actually know if t

Re: Want to help out with debian-edu?

2005-07-15 Thread Ralf Gesellensetter
Dear Petter, thank you for this list. Am Freitag, 15. Juli 2005 10:22 schrieb Petter Reinholdtsen: > It would be great if we had a histogram of whick packages are in how > many education-related distributions, to make sure we have the most > popular (or even all) packages in Debian. Good startin

Problem solved ;)

2004-04-29 Thread Ralf Gesellensetter
Dear friends, sorry for panicking - the problem was as easy as this: Indeed, the partition containing the skole/.../home0 directory run out of memory! That's it! Just the reason for this is frightening: Several users' home directories contained a file named "music.raw" sized ca. 306 MB I fear