Re: Need help with monitor resolution Dell Optiplex GX620

2012-09-13 Thread Richard Doyle
On 08/11/2012 05:26 PM, David Trask wrote: Ok folks...another one... I have a bunch of Dell Optiplex GX620's that I want to use in my lab. They have one video output with a DVI-VGA dongle. I am using a DVI to VGA adapter to connect to my VGA only ACER G185H monitor which has a native

Re: Creating a school computer lab with edbuntu and ltsp

2012-05-21 Thread Richard Doyle
On 05/21/2012 09:00 AM, Quynh Vu Do wrote: Hi, 2012/5/21 Giacomo Trovato giacomo.trov...@gmail.com mailto:giacomo.trov...@gmail.com Hi All, I'm running Edubuntu 10.01 with 10 thin clients in a school. I started with 3 GB on the server, but when thin clients surf the

Pessulus

2012-05-11 Thread Richard Doyle
Pessulus, a lockdown tool, is getting some attention: http://tranzistors.wordpress.com/2012/05/07/being-accepted-in-gsoc-and-revamp-of-pessulus/ -Richard -- edubuntu-users mailing list edubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at:

Re: Wiping donated computers for recycling question

2010-11-19 Thread Richard Doyle
A hammer is my favorite method, but Darik's Boot And Nuke (www.dban.org) works quite well. On Fri, 2010-11-19 at 12:02 -0500, dbclinton wrote: This might amuse you: I was told (by an insider) that every Canadian overseas embassy has one government issue hammer for properly removing data from

Re: Google Chrome as Local App?

2010-09-07 Thread Richard Doyle
On Tue, 2010-09-07 at 08:52 -0400, Jonathan Carter (highvoltage) wrote: 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

HP st5747

2010-06-22 Thread Richard Doyle
Has anybody used/considered using an HP st5747 streaming client in an LTSP environment? These are cheaper than other HP thin clients with an Atom processor, and come with 2 GB of RAM. Although clearly not designed for an LTSP environment, I'm wondering whether they might be (ab)used here. I can't

Re: Wiki Cleanup

2009-07-23 Thread Richard Doyle
On Thu, 2009-07-23 at 20:39 -0400, Ace Suares wrote: Hi, I started mastering the wiki. The beast is now whimpering at my feet but can not hold back an occasional growl, exposing its flickering teeth. First off, I'd like to draw your attention to the following page:

Re: Way to auto-login gnome on startup?

2009-03-08 Thread Richard Doyle
On Sun, 2009-03-08 at 17:28 -0600, David Groos wrote: Hi All, Another issue to solve :) I donĀ“t have access to the room that will house the server for my thin-client classroom network. The computer has iLO so I can remotely restart and even start a computer that is shut down. However, I

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

2009-02-17 Thread Richard Doyle
On Tue, 2009-02-17 at 10:17 -0800, john wrote: Hi all, 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

RE: 8.04 ltsp +sound

2009-02-11 Thread Richard Doyle
...@lists.ubuntu.com [mailto:edubuntu-users-boun...@lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Richard Doyle Sent: 2009-01-30 11:52 To: edubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Subject: Re: 8.04 ltsp +sound On Fri, 2009-01-30 at 10:17 -0500, Ken Campbell wrote: Hi to all, I have been monitoring this list since 4

Re: What user management software do you use?

2009-01-14 Thread Richard Doyle
On Wed, 2009-01-14 at 06:57 -0600, David Groos wrote: Hi All, snip interesting stuff Last night LaserJock told me that Sabayon isn't being developed Actually, Federico posted a minor change to upstream Sabayon just a couple of days ago, so the project isn't completely dead. Sabayon is buggy,

Re: How to copy menus and application settings between users ?

2008-10-26 Thread Richard Doyle
On Sun, 2008-10-26 at 05:21 -0700, Sergio Dicandia wrote: I'm preparing a new server for our classrom with 20 thin clients. I need to customize menus and change some application settings, but I cannot find a way to replicate the same settings on new users. It seems I need to do the same things

Re: How to share a folder among Edubuntu users ?

2008-10-12 Thread Richard Doyle
On Sun, 2008-10-12 at 13:55 -0700, Sergio Dicandia wrote: Hi, I have a problema on a 8.04 running in my school. Each thin client logs on using a username (pc01, pc02, ..., pc10) and have its own home dir. Since kids can log onto a different client each time, I need to show them their docs,

Re: Ubuntu-ltsp is not a mess! [ but needs some polish :) ]

2008-09-11 Thread Richard Doyle
On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 09:37 -0500, Scott Balneaves wrote: On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 02:07:23PM +0200, Pierre Yann Baco wrote: First sites used woody+LTSP4.2. Last june, the local education department required all schools to be updated to Ubuntu Hardy + LTSP5. I've done so (inc. adding an

Re: how do you kill a user's old processes when they try to log back on

2008-09-01 Thread Richard Doyle
On Mon, 2008-09-01 at 12:34 +0200, Dean Mumby wrote: I must say that the move from 7.04 to 8.04 has been very disappointing. I have 8 HP t5125 which are 400MHz 128MB ram machines. They ran perfectly under 7.04 avoiding heavy websites. Under 8.04 they are useless if the user starts

Re: Core 2 Quad

2008-05-14 Thread Richard Doyle
On Thu, 2008-05-15 at 05:04 +1200, Krsnendu dasa wrote: Has anyone had any problems or good experience with Intel Core 2 Quads running edubuntu? I am having weird problems and wondered if it could be the quad core processor? Works fine for me. -- edubuntu-users mailing list

Re: OpenSSL vulnerability

2008-05-14 Thread Richard Doyle
On Tue, 2008-05-13 at 21:12 -0700, Richard Doyle wrote: There is a potentially serious vulnerability in OpenSSL which affects Edubuntu and other Debian-based distributions: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-612-1

Re: request for some help with performance and sound

2008-02-05 Thread Richard Doyle
On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 13:42 -0500, Patrick McKnight wrote: Greetings, I am new to Edubuntu but not new to linux (using exclusively since 1996). Recently, I installed Edubuntu in my research lab. Which version? The install was a replacement for an Ubuntu (Dapper) setup with LTSP that was

RE: request for some help with performance and sound

2008-02-05 Thread Richard Doyle
On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 14:50 -0500, Patrick McKnight wrote: Richard, Thanks for the quick reply and sorry about excluding relevant information. Were you using the default Via driver (the xorg version) in both instances? I am using 7.10 (Gutsy) now. The install is the AMD64 version on my

Re: request for some help with performance and sound

2008-02-05 Thread Richard Doyle
any of them work. Thanks for the questions. They are leading me at least in a direction to figure out the source of my problem. On Feb 5, 2008 3:11 PM, Richard Doyle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 14:50 -0500, Patrick McKnight wrote: Richard

Re: How to mass create users

2008-01-23 Thread Richard Doyle
On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 12:01 -0700, Jim Hutchinson wrote: On Jan 23, 2008 11:33 AM, Joseph Hartman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been reading a lot of recommendations for giving each student their own account on the terminal server but I am loathe to go through the user creation process

Re: FreeNX connect to Edubuntu

2008-01-23 Thread Richard Doyle
On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 16:02 -0500, Jim Kronebusch wrote: Does anyone have a good tutorial or link to instructions to getting FreeNX working with Edubuntu? This isn't exactly what you are asking for, but Nomachine NX is free as in beer (apparently the libraries and some components are GPL 2,

Re: locking down the desktop

2008-01-21 Thread Richard Doyle
On Mon, 2008-01-21 at 08:01 -0800, btabor wrote: All students log in the same (see the same desktop). Then they can navigate to their network folders. Why did you set things up this way? You wouldn't have overly cluttered desktops if you'd used the default configuration, with separate desktops

Delayed-mounter

2008-01-11 Thread Richard Doyle
Since, according to ogra, delayed-mounter is only used for floppies or devices that exist before login, would there be any negative consequences of removing S10-delayed-mounter altogether, other than having no access to floppies and pre-existing devices? Our thin clients lack floppy or CD drives,

Re: Local devices vs. Gutsy

2008-01-09 Thread Richard Doyle
On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 14:27 +0100, Oliver Grawert wrote: hi, On Di, 2008-01-08 at 10:33 -0800, Richard Doyle wrote: We upgraded our lab from Feisty to Gutsy over the last couple of weeks. All was working well until I noticed that no more than one client could use local usb drives

Re: Local devices vs. Gutsy

2008-01-09 Thread Richard Doyle
On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 17:02 +, Gavin McCullagh wrote: Hi, On Wed, 09 Jan 2008, Richard Doyle wrote: Everything, including usb drives, is working well now, As someone who hasn't yet put gutsy into production, this is most reassuring. So you just had to fix the thin clients color

RE: Edubuntu 7.10 - A Released Debacle and a Practice in Failure -Response

2007-12-12 Thread Richard Doyle
On Wed, 2007-12-12 at 10:08 -0800, Mike White wrote: A sensible school (in my opinion) should do once a year upgrades during the yearly transition (summer break for us). My 2 cents, Jim Not sure how unique our situation is, but as we use 7.04 to serve 28 student machines in

Upgrade?

2007-12-07 Thread Richard Doyle
We're happily running Edubuntu 7.04, but are interested in upgrading to Gutsy (Edubuntu 7.10) over the winter holidays. Is the upgrade worthwhile? Faster start-up of client sessions under Gutsy is attractive, but what are the negatives? I'm concerned about reports of problems with local devices

Re: I am having difficulty lisening to the radio online

2007-11-04 Thread Richard Doyle
On Sun, 2007-11-04 at 12:31 -0800, Charlie Dorff wrote: Hi... I am having difficulty listening to the radio online. I click on listen. A dialog box pops up and asks me what I want to do with this file. Open with Rhythmbox media player (defalt) is checked I click on ok. Then Rhythmbox Media

Re: Unable to boot thin clients

2007-10-30 Thread Richard Doyle
Google thinks you are trying to load a module compiled for a different architecture. More details on your setup might help. On Tue, 2007-10-30 at 10:00 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have installed Edubuntu 7.10 and now when my thin clients try to boot they stop at the message: [25.144524]

Re: Ubuntu 7.04 and LTSP

2007-10-06 Thread Richard Doyle
On Sat, 2007-10-06 at 18:40 -0400, Tom Misilo wrote: Hi, I am trying to setup a LTSP server with 7.04 using this tutorial https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ThinClientHowto and https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ThinClientHowtoNAT I have two network cards, The internet is on eth0: 192.168.0.x

Re: Sabayon and Ebuntu don't play well together was Re: cant login

2007-10-02 Thread Richard Doyle
On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 13:48 -0700, john wrote: Hi all, I just wanted to toss my .02 in on this old discussion. Today I installed Sabayon because I wanted to set some user defaults under gnome and after the install no users could log in via LDM. Did you assign Sabayon profiles to these users?

Re: Edubuntu 7.04 still not working: thumb drives/local dev

2007-08-13 Thread Richard Doyle
On Mon, 2007-08-13 at 12:16 -0700, john wrote: Hi all, I am still unable to get thumb drives to work under edubuntu 7.04 I am using the linux-image-server kernel 2.6.20-16-server since I have 8 gigs of memory. I have added a local user to the fuse group and lsmod shows fuse

Re: Thin-client manager not working - ideas?

2007-08-07 Thread Richard Doyle
On Tue, 2007-08-07 at 11:22 -0500, Jim Kronebusch wrote: On Tue, 07 Aug 2007 03:14:19 -0400, David Trask wrote Ok, Last issue and I'm going home (it's 3 a.m.) I've just finished getting 2 Edubuntu servers up and runningthey are in dhcp-load balance/failover mode (working

Lockdown

2007-07-21 Thread Richard Doyle
I'm a new user of Edubuntu (7.04) setting up a classroom network for student use. The Lockdown editor is accessible to all users without requiring a superuser password, which seems odd. Can one lockdown the lockdown editor? -- edubuntu-users mailing list edubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: Lockdown

2007-07-21 Thread Richard Doyle
On Sat, 2007-07-21 at 13:23 -0700, Richard Doyle wrote: I'm a new user of Edubuntu (7.04) setting up a classroom network for student use. The Lockdown editor is accessible to all users without requiring a superuser password, which seems odd. Can one lockdown the lockdown editor? Apparently