Re: Planning for summer work/next school year

2011-08-02 Thread David Van Assche
There are several books that have helped me along the way to understanding and building automated systems. I wrote most of my sequencing here: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Dextrose/Server thought date I do not believe it has been used. The theory is sounds though and has been replicated at a sing

Re: Planning for summer work/next school year

2011-07-23 Thread G. T. Stresen-Reuter
On Jul 23, 2011, at 5:24 AM, Bob Saltzer wrote: > I'd go with Mint 11. Stay away from the Unity desktop. It inhales air in > such volumes it creates a vacuum. With minimal tweaking > Mint will run videos on the internet well plus DVD's, as it's easy to install > the additional codecs. Are yo

Re: Planning for summer work/next school year

2011-07-23 Thread G. T. Stresen-Reuter
This document is incredibly useful. Thank you so much for sharing. I think it underlines just how difficult implementing this technology can be - people often think it is as easy as installing from a CD... And you didn't go into any detail on user or group management... And a final question for

Re: Planning for summer work/next school year

2011-07-22 Thread David Groos
Hi Jeff -- I'm just getting back to school technology, hope these thoughts will still be useful to you. On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 11:13 AM, Donaldson Jeffrey < jdonald...@ncs.k12.de.us> wrote: > ** > David, > > I'm the Technology Manager for a Charter School in Delaware. We've been > using a Thin C

Re: Planning for summer work/next school year

2011-06-03 Thread David Groos
Thanks Gavin, LVM--not heard of this so I just read up a bit about it. Looks doable and elegant but.. I'm not ready for 'one more thing' at this moment :) I've used clonezilla quite a bit and I've used that to approximate a roll-back system. Having some system with which to safely experiment has

Re: Planning for summer work/next school year

2011-05-31 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, oops, I should clarify this: On Tue, 31 May 2011, Gavin McCullagh wrote: > Gnome losing all settings (due to gconfd problem I suspect), ... until you logout and login again. It doesn't permanently lose settings. Gavin -- edubuntu-devel mailing list edubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modi

Re: Planning for summer work/next school year

2011-05-31 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, On Mon, 30 May 2011, David Groos wrote: > School year here in Minnesota is winding down, I'll take a bit of break, > then will be back to preparing the technology for the next school year. > I've had great success with 10.04 with localapps. Next year I want to move > to Fat Clients. I'm gue

Re: Planning for summer work/next school year

2011-05-30 Thread David Groos
Hi Todd, Great!Some people have previously posted some things on this forum and I'll hunt down that info and post it on the comparison page. Also, with other people hopefully weighing in, let's see where we're at next weekend. Here's a link to the page for everyone to peruse

Planning for summer work/next school year

2011-05-30 Thread David Groos
Hi Edubuntistas, School year here in Minnesota is winding down, I'll take a bit of break, then will be back to preparing the technology for the next school year. I've had great success with 10.04 with localapps. Next year I want to move to Fat Clients. I'm guessing I'm not alone in this. My BIG