Re: want to ask about VIA/S3G Unichrome IGP Pro

2007-12-06 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > i have problem in setting this display cardi used GG > what have i done : > - i already follow what ubuntu forum said -- failed > - install xserver for openchrome -- failed > i kept doing after setting up - sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh > xserve

Re: booting thin clients and firestarter

2008-01-31 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi David DB Clinton wrote: > I completely uninstalled Firestarter (including the config settings) but > the clients are still getting hung early in the boot process ("no ip > address"). I suspect that the system is still using the dhcpd.conf file > in dhcp3 rather than the dhcpd.conf in ltsp (alth

Re: Advice on a good LTSP switch

2008-03-18 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi Jim > As far as LTSP goes just make sure you have switches with GB uplinks and > 100MB to the > clients. Run at least gigabit from the server to your switches and gigabit > between the > switches. If you follow those rules any switch should work great. In terms of connecting switches, I wo

Re: Still having sound issues

2008-09-29 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi Luis Luis Montes wrote: > doing "sudo apt-get install libsdl1.2debian-all" (which did remove > libsdl1.2debian-alsa) allowed Tuxpaint, and Childsplay and others to > correctly close on exiting the programs. > > However, now it appears that sound in flash doesn't work. Any chance there's >

Re: Adobe Reader as localapp

2009-01-10 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi M Rathburn wrote: > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > E: Couldn't find package AdobeReader_enu-8.1.3-1.i386.deb > > I went ahead and downloaded the .deb file from Adobe and placed into my > /root folder. How do I install that direct

Re: Firefox as local app and networking

2009-01-12 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi M Rathburn wrote: > eth1 - is the thin client network with scheme 192.168.0.254 (server). > > I understand -why- it doesn't work. Just wondering if there's a way to add > a static route/whatever to make it work both ways (internet from the server, > and internet from the thin client's localap

Re: Help! Would you recommend running ltsp on Ubuntu 8.04 or 8.10?

2009-02-17 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi John john wrote: > I've been trying to migrate from 7.04 to 8.04 since last fall. I can > only do it during downtime at our school. I have this week while kids > are on break to try and get the new system in. My problem is that I > can't seem to scale the LTSP installation based on 8.04 past

Re: Edubuntu 8.04 LiveCD query

2009-04-02 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi Bret Bret Busby wrote: > Please advise whether Edubuntu 8.04 is available as a single Live CD or > DVD image. Unfortunately the Edubuntu Live CD's aren't available anymore. Ubuntu has grown to the point where it has become plenty of work to ensure that it fits on a single CD when shipped, whi

Re: Sabayon updates for jaunty.

2009-05-26 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi Scott Scott Balneaves wrote: > With the hope of widening the testing as far as possible, we have some test > builds of sabayon that (appear) to work. > > After an intense couple of days of hacking, applying some upstream patches to > the latest 2.25 "bitter tea" release of sabayon, and some ot

Re: how about a community script repository?

2009-07-17 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi Jordan Jordan Mantha wrote: > My idea is that maybe we can create a Launchpad project to collect and > distribute this good work by Edubuntu users. The actual scripts can be > put into a bazaar repository where people can contribute to them, > collaborate together, and write some documentation

Re: Managing LTSP users

2009-07-17 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi nm...@sjut.ac.tz wrote: > I have the Ubuntu 8.01 terminal server up and running.But the problem > come with users. > I want the administrator to have access to all user documents and data but > other users not to access the administrator data. >From a command line, you could type: sudo dpkg-r

Re: Hiring Edubuntu Staff

2009-07-24 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi Scott R. Scott Belford wrote: > For what it is worth, it is now nearly a year since I tracked down > every key Canonical employee I could find at Linuxworld 2008, both at > the conference and at after-hours events, to communicate two messages: > the state of Edubuntu and its User community was

Re: Editing the Teams pages on the Wiki

2009-08-26 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi Ace Ace Suares wrote: > Jonathan, I took the freedom to bring your changes in line with the > proposed style. Thanks for using the WikiSite though - I get the feeling > that all my work was NOT for nothing :-) Thanks, it does actually look better. -Jonathan -- edubuntu-users mailing list

Re: Leaving Edubuntu

2009-10-03 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi Ace (I'm cc'ing you since I don't know whether you're on the list anymore) Ace Suares wrote: > See http://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2009/10/02/%23ubuntu-meeting.html#t17:59 > > On the agenda was a proposal from LaserJock, which would resolve the > deadlock around cleaning up the wiki. It was not add

Wiki Hug Day

2009-10-05 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi! I'm posting this to edubuntu-users and edubuntu-devel since the wiki issues have been discussed on both recently. What is a Wiki Hug Day? Well, in the Ubuntu world, a hug day is often dedicated to a certain problem where a group of people dedicate a few hours or the entire day to a specific p

Re: Leaving Edubuntu

2009-10-05 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi David David Van Assche wrote: > 1. Edubuntu Handbook to be updated, remove LTSP parts and link from > external upstream documentation. > 2. Update Website to incorporate news, especially the recent roadmap > explanation posted by Stephane. > 3. Update website to list applications on the Edubunt

Re: meeting time poll results

2009-10-19 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Jordan Mantha wrote: > 17:00-19:00 UTC Saturday > 17:00-19:00 UTC Sunday > 13:00 UTC Thursday > 01:00 UTC Tuesday > > I would suggest maybe we should maybe rotate between 19:00 UTC > Saturday/13:00 UTC Thursday or 19:00 UTC Sunday/01:00 UTC Tuesday to > keep the days fairly close in the week but d

Re: meeting time poll results

2009-10-20 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Jonathan Carter (highvoltage) wrote: > Jordan Mantha wrote: >> 17:00-19:00 UTC Saturday >> 17:00-19:00 UTC Sunday >> 13:00 UTC Thursday >> 01:00 UTC Tuesday >> >> I would suggest maybe we should maybe rotate between 19:00 UTC >> Saturday/13:00 UTC Thur

Re: 9.10

2009-10-28 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi Farid Farid Ansari wrote: > *It is 9 AM of 29th October 2009 but still no sign of our Ubuntu 9.10. > Can someone advise if the new version will be available for download > when it is 29th October in the north americas ? It would be some time during the 29th, yes, so be the time it it gets late

Re: Can someone help me understand this message "packages cannot be authenticated"

2009-10-28 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi John john wrote: > I have an LTSP server running Jaunty. I want to install apticron on > the server. Apt wants to install an MTA along with apticron which is > fine with me, however > it wants to install postfix AND exim4 and it also warns that the > packages cannot be authenticated. Can someo

Edubuntu 9.10 Released

2009-10-29 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi Everyone Today marks the release of Edubuntu 9.10. While things were a bit wobbly for this release at some stages, everything pulled together and the resulting product of everyone's work turned out to be really good. Edubuntu 9.10 is now a DVD installation as many requested since the switch to

Re: no ltsp-server option in ubuntu-9.10-alternate-i386

2009-11-01 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
David Groos wrote: > I would like to jump in here for a moment and highlight that there are > multitudes of things that can waylay users who are smart, > tech-wise-but-not-experts-in-the-system. Things that seem trivial to > those who have been on the path many times, can be show stoppers to > tho

Re: Clean up of proposed Edubuntu Member applications

2009-11-10 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi Jordan Jordan Mantha wrote: > During our last meeting we discussed the state of the Edubuntu Members > Launchpad team [0], particularly the fact that we have about three > times as many "proposed" members as current members. The vast majority > of the proposed members are completely unknown to

Re: Too much network activity?

2009-11-15 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi David David Groos wrote: > Interesting, I think, that the newer clients take 1/4 of the time of the > older. This seems to imply that the cause isn't just on the server? Have you checked on something like top or htop what's using the CPU when it's maxed out? > "LDM_DIRECTX=/True" /what does

Edubuntu Council Elections

2009-11-15 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi As most of you noticed, the Edubuntu project have been going through some big changes recently. Something we have been working on with the Ubuntu Community Council for a while now is to have the Edubuntu Council back to a reasonable size (5 members). That's why, today, we announce that there w

Re: why is firefox such a CPU hog?

2009-11-17 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi john john wrote: > Thanks in advance for your ideas! I am personally also quite frustrated with Firefox performance issues- and that's just on a standalone machine. I installed Chromium from the daily build PPA's and it's shaping up very nicely. Performance-wise it's definitely better than Fir

Re: Edubuntu-ohjelmia

2010-01-11 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Tervehdys 2010/1/11 Ville Pöntinen : > Meillä on käytössä normaalit työpöytäasennuksen ohjelmat (+Inkscape > yms sekalaista), mutta varsinaisista opetusohjelmista vain Kig. En ole varma, jos joku tässä luettelossa ymmärtää suomea. Olisiko mahdollista lepo kysymykseenne Englanti? (käännetty Googl

Re: Teachers and Edubuntu and more

2010-01-19 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 4:56 PM, Scott Balneaves wrote: > I agree totally.  Like I say, I think I'd rather just see us handle it all in > edubuntu. > > When we get to the point where there's 50 teachers in there working on lesson > plans, and 50 developers all talking, and we're stepping on each o

Re: Why end-of-life LTS releases in April?

2010-01-20 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi John On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 10:09 PM, john wrote: > I was sort of idly wondering why does Ubuntu end-of-life their LTS > releases in April? Whose interest does it serve? > From my prospective (e.g. a school computer admin) it's a terrible > time. It leaves me with unsupported software for 3 m

Re: Why end-of-life LTS releases in April?

2010-01-21 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 6:19 PM, john wrote: > Yes, I think you are right. The more I consider my question, the > sillier it seems. :-P I appreciate your examples. No problem, I didn't think it was silly :) -Jonathan -- edubuntu-users mailing list edubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify setting

Re: Network Install special config Edubuntu

2010-01-26 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
HI Matte On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 2:49 PM, Mattias Hemmingsson wrote: > Im waiting for the release of the new ubunut / edubuntu. > And this time im thinking of making it poosibel to dom e sort of network > installation. > > I thing of it i can make my own iso file with packaged and config files r

Re: LTSP Boot Across Subnets

2010-01-30 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 5:14 PM, Ben Francis wrote: > Can an LTSP client boot from a server on another subnet? > > For example, can a client that gets an IP address of 192.168.1.5 boot from a > server (192.168.2.10) on a separate router? The short answer is 'no', but everything except dhcp w

Re: size of ltsp/images/i386.img

2010-04-21 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi Lee On 20/04/2010 16:56, Lee Harr wrote: > Everything is working (well... except for blender. See my other > recent message about that) but I noticed that before the update > the image file was about 230MB and now after the update it is > over 335MB. My guess is that it contains the packages t

Re: user list email

2010-05-26 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi! On 25/05/2010 15:58, Shryok Char wrote: > My name is Char Shryock and I am a technology integration specialist > in a k-12 district that is beginning to implement Ubunutu in a one to > one laptop initiative. My email is cshry...@fairview.k12.oh.us Welcome to the list! You might also be i

Re: LTSP woes with Lucid Lynx

2010-06-06 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi Andrew On 05/06/2010 23:47, Andrew wrote: > I am posting this here in the hope that someone may be able to offer > some suggestions, or, even better, some nuggets of insight, to help me > out of this hole here I've got myself into ... > > In summary, I've installed ltsp-server-standalone in a

Re: Language Packages for Edubuntu

2010-08-03 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi Jack On 03/08/2010 10:38, Jack ODonnell wrote: > Jorge I did check the language packages that were installed. All were > installed. I removed them and reinstalled. Still I have only some of > the educational software in Spanish. NOTE: only some of the software > added by the edubuntu packag

Re: Whiter Edubuntu? [was: Re: Applets fail to load -- huge drag!]

2010-08-09 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
On 09/08/2010 05:18, Theo Schmidt wrote: > john wrote: > ... >> p.s. I am sorry to see these lists so quiet, we need to be a resource >> for each other. > > I am also a bit astonished at the low volume of this list. Not that I need > any > more messages, but I would have thought that this list i

Re: Netbook interface

2010-08-18 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
On 18/08/2010 05:38, Theo Schmidt wrote: > Charl Wentzel wrote: > ... > > The installer shows a very nice netbook interface and the site says that > > you can install it afterwards but I can't find any instructions on which > > package to install to get that nice interface. > > If you can't fin

Re: Acer Netbooks + Edubuntu

2010-08-19 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi Charl On 19/08/2010 09:57, Charl Wentzel wrote: > I would like to get a feel whether anybody would be interested? It is > early stages and I need some indication of interest as part of the > negotiation. > > (This is South Africa only for now, may expand to Southern Africa later) > > Please

Re: Helping new users with setting up Edubuntu server

2010-09-03 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
On 17/06/2010 21:53, Belinda Lopez wrote: > Not sure there is a long term vision for edubuntu at the moment. :-( > It's being driven by the developer community and they have done an > outstanding job to keep the project moving forward. Other than > blueprints for the next cycle I would love to s

Re: Swap filling up, apps crashing

2010-09-04 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi Nick On 04/09/2010 13:21, Nick Fenger wrote: > I'm having an issue where swap fills to 100% (0Kb free) after > running applications such as openoffice and chrome/firefox but does not > decrease substantially when the applications are closed. Ultimately when > swap reaches 100%, browser plugins

Re: Google Chrome as Local App?

2010-09-07 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi Nick On 07/09/2010 00:25, Nick Fenger wrote: > I'm wondering if anyone has google chrome working as a local app? If so, > what configuration worked? NFS instead of NBD? Chrome works much better > with google docs so I would like to get it going. Adding this to lts.conf should do the trick: S

Re: Local Apps

2010-09-10 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi Kees On 10/09/2010 12:11, Kees wrote: > I am trying to install firefox as a local app (following this guide: > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSPKarmicLocalAppsFirefox) > However I get stuck at the first hurdle. When I am trying to update apt > in the chroot environment it seems like

Re: Local Apps

2010-09-12 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi Kees On 10/09/2010 18:53, Kees wrote: >> The nameservers are probably not set in the chroot, try this before you >> do the 'sudo chroot...' step: > > That worked, thanks. The only problem I have now that I get a warning > about http://ftpmaster.internal/, is that normal? Also do a: cp /etc/ap

Re: Edubuntu School Server in a Box blueprint

2010-09-16 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi Jorge On 16/09/2010 02:44, Jorge Salamero Sanz wrote: > On Thursday 16 September 2010 04:27:34 Belinda Lopez wrote: > It could provide: firewall, qos, proxy with content filtering, ldap > management, > samba, etc and it's already in Ubuntu :) > > https://launchpad.net/~zentyal > http://www.z

Re: where does the latest version of the ltsp manual live?

2010-09-17 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi John On 17/09/2010 13:46, john wrote: > I need to understand more about the lts.conf file. Could someone point > me to the latest version of the ltsp manual? I believe this is the official manual: http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/ltsp/index.php?title=Ltsp_LtspDocumentationUpstream With r

Re: Open Source Adult Literacy Software

2010-09-18 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi Jack On 17/09/2010 20:03, Jack ODonnell wrote: > One of our partners has requested that we send computers that can be > used in an adult literacy programs. Since the computers will be > equipped with Edubuntu we are hoping to add programs to help them > address this need > > Does anyone know

Edubuntu 10.10 Released!

2010-10-10 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Edubuntu 10.10 has been released! http://edubuntu.org/news/10.10-release Thanks to everyone who made it possible! -Jonathan -- edubuntu-users mailing list edubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users

Re: cant start netbook desktop on VirtualBox VM

2010-10-13 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi Joao On 13/10/2010 04:40, Joao Ferreira gmail wrote: > I am a Linux / Debian / *buntu user for some time now. Great software :) > > I was trying out edubuntu 10.01 for my 9 year old boy. I installed it on > a VirtualBox VM and I requested the instalation of the Netbook Desktop. > > It happens

Re: Support Needed for Edubuntu PXE Installation in Chicago

2010-10-22 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi Jack On 21/10/2010 12:51, Jack ODonnell wrote: > We are a 503c international education/technology organization. Our main > mission is to collect working computer refurbish them and send them to > partners(Peace Corps, Rotary, USAID, UN, ministers of education etc) in > developing countries wh

Re: About Unity thing

2010-10-26 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi Asmo On 26/10/2010 04:59, Asmo Koskinen wrote: > what we can expect from this Unity thing for simple LTSP users like me? The plan is to have decent 2D fallback modes before it gets implemented. If your thin clients have 3D acceleration, performance will actually be better than a 2D desktop on

Re: Life after LTSP

2010-11-09 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi Robert On 08/11/2010 15:34, Robert Arkiletian wrote: > In my opinion, the days of LTSP are numbered. For a few different reasons. > > 1) > hardware is so cheap now. You can buy a brand new power efficient and > fast desktop system for about $200 (not including monitor). Thin > clients are ac

Edubuntu Council Renewals

2010-11-11 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi Edubuntu users and developers! In a bit more than a month, the current Edubuntu Council's term will be coming to an end and will be up for renewal. It's unlikely that we'll do re-elections, we will probably have one or two current council members stepping down because of other responsibilities

Re: Life after LTSP

2010-11-12 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi Charl These are all good questions, I'll try to respond from them from my point of view... On 11/11/2010 23:00, Charl Wentzel wrote: > 1. Is Edubuntu = education software? > This was the obvious starting point, delivering FOSS eductional software > to kids/schools. Is this "big" enough. It s

Re: Life after LTSP

2010-11-12 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi Asmo On 12/11/2010 09:47, Asmo Koskinen wrote: > Same hardware in LTSP needs more to do ( + Local Apps): > > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/AtomIon > > This discussion about DRBL and LTSP is very, very freshing. I find it interesting, we had some DRBL discussion quite a while b

Re: DRBL and Technology

2010-11-14 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi Jim On 10-11-13 10:31 AM, Jim Christiansen wrote: > As for including DRBL in Edubuntu it would seem to be a no-brainer. We > can't hold up progress, we've got to embrace it and roll with > it every step of the way. I'm in a school where the Principals have > always been supportive of Linux an

Re: DRBL and Technology

2010-11-15 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi Todd On 10-11-15 06:22 AM, Todd O'Bryan wrote: > I hadn't realized how nice the support for fat clients was in LTSP > until I looked at the docs. Especially in a mixed thin/fat environment > (where you're buying machines to replace thin clients over time), it > seems like this might be the way

Re: DRBL and Technology

2010-11-15 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi Todd On 10-11-15 05:22 PM, Todd O'Bryan wrote: > What if the thin clients are i386 and the fat clients are amd64? You'll have to have separate i386 and amd64 chroots. Typically though, i386 images are used for both. > Also, I guess I'm not understanding something about how the chroot > works.

Re: X configuration file in Edubuntu 10.04

2010-11-17 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi Saikat On 10-11-16 09:53 PM, Saikat Saha wrote: > Please let me know the x configuration file in edubuntu 10.04. I am > not able to add any resolution as the file is not xorg.conf file is > not availabale here. Please help me. This wiki page should explain everything: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X

Re: Boot options

2010-11-22 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi Giacomo On 10-11-21 04:58 PM, Giacomo Trovato wrote: > I have seen that in Debian Edu it is possible to choose, at PXE boot, if > a client boots as thin client or as diskless workstation. > Is it possible to implement this on Edubuntu 10.10? While that sounds nice, I'm not sure whether there's

Re: DRBL and Technology

2010-11-24 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
hi Todd On 10-11-23 10:35 PM, Todd O'Bryan wrote: > I create a fat-client chroot that has a bunch of stuff in it. In > particular, in my lab I teach programming, so I've got a few > programming languages installed, Google Chrome, etc. Then I run > ltsp-update-kernels, ltsp-update-image, and ltsp-u

Re: Invalid card number

2010-12-13 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi Asmo On 11/12/10 05:26 PM, Asmo Koskinen wrote: > Does not helped. > > Has anyone else tried Natty as a ltsp server? I'm planning to do so today :) > Is this Compiz/Unity/whatever-thing really this bad in this point of > development? It's getting better, but it is indeed very early days an

Re: Invalid card number

2010-12-15 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
On 15/12/10 02:56 AM, Asmo Koskinen wrote: > 13.12.2010 16:41, Jonathan Carter (highvoltage) kirjoitti: >> It's getting better, but it is indeed very early days and not at all >> ready for anything else than experimental use (imho). > > Did you find something - do you

Re: Building an ltsp client

2011-02-07 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi Guillermo On 07/02/11 09:35 AM, guillermo wrote: > I would appreciate very much your help to this problem. > > I have some old pcs that can be used as thin clients. So I tried to build an > ltsp from different distribution. > > sudo ltsp-build-client --arch i386 --dist hardy > > After many

Re: Fat clients boot but no internet on clinets...

2011-02-17 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
On 17/02/11 12:57 PM, Jim Christiansen wrote: > I have a student who has done an ltsp install on top of Ubuntu 10.04 > server. He has built the fat client image and the clients boot, test > users can log on and even play openarena. > > The only trouble we have so far is that the browser can not

Re: Fat clients boot but no internet on clinets...

2011-02-21 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi Jim On 21/02/11 02:38 PM, Jim Christiansen wrote: > Thank you Johnathon. My students used your how to that I had come upon > to do the ltsp install on 10.04. It was your how to that told my > students to apt-get openarena. The how to looked good when I skimmed it > so I just had them go thro

Re: Edubuntu 10.10 LTSP - LDM autologin don't work

2011-03-01 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Have you had any luck with this? I've been testing auto-logins in maverick today and couldn't reproduce this problem. -Jonathan On 18/02/11 01:27 PM, X-Dimension wrote: > Thank you very much for this guide, but it still don't work for me! > > I've tried > > [client_ip_address] > LDM_AUTOLOGIN=t

Re: Edubuntu 10.10 LTSP - LDM autologin don't work

2011-03-06 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi On 05/03/11 05:16 AM, X-Dimension wrote: > I've found the reason why LDM_Autologin don't work in our productive > environment! > We are using italc and i set "START_ITALC = True" in the [default] > section of lts.conf. > But with "START_ITALC = True" autologin don't work! > > Does anybody have

Re: configure some clients to boot from fat image

2011-03-24 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi Lee On 03/22/11 13:45, Lee Harr wrote: I have a lab of computers running plain LTSP with thin clients. Some of the clients are more powerful "LTSP Term 1620"s which I thought I would try out as fat clients. They work pretty well as thins. Would you expect them to work any better as fat clie

Re: configure some clients to boot from fat image

2011-03-25 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi Lee On 03/25/11 09:24, Lee Harr wrote: """ [default] FAT_RAM_THRESHOLD=512 [00:A1:08:11:F2:C8] LTSP_FATCLIENT=false """ So, using this method, is a separate fat client image needed, or do the fat and thin clients both use the same image? It seems to me that making changes in lts.conf w

Re: Interactive whiteboards with Ubuntu

2011-03-28 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi Veli-Matti On 03/28/11 10:46, Veli-Matti Lintu wrote: There are probably quite a few people here who are interested in interactive whiteboards and their linux compatibility. Finding up-to-date information on the different models and how to get them working with Ubuntu has been quite a chal

Re: Sabayon and Unity Interface

2011-05-31 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi Steve On 31/05/11 01:04 PM, Rippl, Steve wrote: > There's a thread running at the moment about current versions of > Ubuntu/Edubuntu and their respective support for things, but I'm > specifically interested in (concerned about) the new Unity UI and the > profile lockdown tool Sabayon in future

Re: Switching to Kubuntu; problems?

2011-10-23 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi Robert On 11-10-23 12:32 PM, Robert Curriden wrote: > Let's all be honest. Fallback is not Classic; I'm hoping that 12.04 has > more common sense, and maintains the Classic desktop. I'm using the fallback mode and it works pretty much like the classic mode for me. What is it missing for you?

Re: Switching to Kubuntu; problems?

2011-10-24 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi Robert On 11-10-24 07:59 AM, Robert Curriden wrote: > Panels, visual effects, plug-ins, forcing the use of Gnome shell... In gnome fallback I can change my panels and my layout as I wish. I can also choose another window manager like compiz. -Jonathan -- edubuntu-users mailing list edubuntu

Edubuntu Council Elections

2011-11-22 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Dear Edubuntu Users and Developers The Edubuntu Council[1] is up for re-election[2]. If you'd like to nominate an Edubuntu Member[3] for the Council, please confirm with the person that he or she is willing to stand and then post the nomination to either myself[4] or to the Edubuntu Developers[5]

Re: Edubuntu Council Elections

2011-11-22 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
, Jonathan Carter (highvoltage) wrote: > Dear Edubuntu Users and Developers > > The Edubuntu Council[1] is up for re-election[2]. If you'd like to > nominate an Edubuntu Member[3] for the Council, please confirm with the > person that he or she is willing to stand and then post the no

Edubuntu at Ubuntu Developers Week

2012-01-30 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi! Want to get involved in Edubuntu? Have some questions about the project? Join the Edubuntu session at Edubuntu Developers Week tomorrow! Announcement with links to details here: http://edubuntu.org/2012-01-27/ubuntu-developer-week See you there! -Jonathan -- edubuntu-users mailing list e

Re: LTSP server crash

2012-04-11 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi! On 11/04/2012 13:48, dbclinton wrote: I messed my device names up and managed to lose my thin clients in the process. I'm running 10.04 LTS, by the way. Originally the device facing the Internet (via an Ipcop proxy server) was eth0 and the device facing my clients was eth1. The Internet inte

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

Debian Edu / Skolelinux 7.1

2013-09-29 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
From the Edubuntu team, congratulations to our friends at Debian Edu / Skolelinux on the release of Debian Edu / Skolelinux 7.1 (wheezy)! http://www.debian.org/News/2013/20130928 -Jonathan -- edubuntu-users mailing list edubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https: