Re: A PC for my grandchildren

2012-05-01 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi! On 27/04/2012 21:24, Adrie Taniwidjaja wrote: Just to add what Mike has been explained . Previously (cmiiw) Edubuntu have Net Nanny for parental control in the default repository so it was built in in the default instalation, but I don't know why this feature disapear now. I've been m

Re: Synchronize two LTSP servers' /home?

2012-05-01 Thread Joseph Bishay
Hello, Thank you for your reply. A /home NFS server won't work because of the bandwidth between the two server is not enough. I think a cron RSYNC job would be great -- do I just need to sync the non-hidden files in the /home/user folder? Any issues with permissions? Thank you Joseph On Fri,

Re: Firefox caching to NFS mounted home directories killing disk IO on file server

2012-05-01 Thread john
Hi all, I thought I'd resurect this old thread and ask is the current (as of May 2012) way to force global firefox preferences to create two files, one /etc/firefox/pref/firefox.js and one in the /usr/lib/firefox-version/firefox.cfg ? That seems like a huge step backward from the days when you cou

Re: Firefox caching to NFS mounted home directories killing disk IO on file server

2012-05-01 Thread john
Hi all, I'll answer part of my question by saying putting a firefox.js file in /usr/lib/firefox-12/defaults/pref results in that file being honored by thin clients, but not if firefox is being run as a local app. Since I am running local apps, I guess my question is reduced to where/how does firef