Sorry for the ambiguity, yes i do indeed mean Swindon in Wiltshire, UK. Thanks for the messages of support everyone and I will keep you posted.
On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 10:10 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Send edubuntu-users mailing list submissions to > [email protected] > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > You can reach the person managing the list at > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of edubuntu-users digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: School in Swindon considering going Linux! (Mike) > 2. Re: School in Swindon considering going Linux! (norman) > 3. Re: School in Swindon considering going Linux! (alan c) > 4. Re: School in Swindon considering going Linux! (alan c) > 5. Re: School in Swindon considering going Linux! (Gavin McCullagh) > 6. Re: School in Swindon considering going Linux! (alan c) > 7. Re: LTSP5 Ltsp-localapps (Asmo Koskinen) > 8. Suggestions for preventing ultra-hi monitor resolution (Tom Wolfe) > 9. Re: Suggestions for preventing ultra-hi monitor resolution > (Jordan Erickson) > 10. network-admin seg fault on edubuntu (VY) > 11. Re: Suggestions for preventing ultra-hi monitor resolution > (Gavin McCullagh) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2008 22:06:22 +1000 > From: Mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: School in Swindon considering going Linux! > Cc: [email protected] > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > Dermot Mc Laughlin wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > > > I have only recently subscribed to this list and have been impressed > > with the level of support that it has provided. I am the head of > > Business Studies and ICT at Greendown Community school in Swindon and > > I'm also charged with ICT Strategic Management. I'm new to the job and > > have a little bit of Linux experience. I have talked to the schools > > senior leaders and the network manager here and people are certainly > > interested in the school clients/servers being switched to open source > > (for cost reasons initially). In fact, I'm slowly introducing the idea > > to staff and students already. > > > > The network manager and I would love to come by to meet up with people > > on this list to discuss feasibility. Can you let me know when the next > > such event is happening? We would need a fair bit of help getting > > ourselves skilled up and we would be regular posters on this list. > > > > Thank you, > > Dermot Mc Laughlin > > > You don't say where Swindon is, which country? > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2008 12:18:55 +0000 > From: norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: School in Swindon considering going Linux! > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain > > < big snip > > > I assume this is Swindon UK so why not post this in > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Norman > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2008 13:12:09 +0000 > From: alan c <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: School in Swindon considering going Linux! > To: Dermot Mc Laughlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: [email protected] > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > Dermot Mc Laughlin wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > I have only recently subscribed to this list and have been impressed with > > the level of support that it has provided. I am the head of Business > Studies > > and ICT at Greendown Community school in Swindon and I'm also charged > with > > ICT Strategic Management. I'm new to the job and have a little bit of > Linux > > experience. I have talked to the schools senior leaders and the network > > manager here and people are certainly interested in the school > > clients/servers being switched to open source (for cost reasons > initially). > > In fact, I'm slowly introducing the idea to staff and students already. > > > > The network manager and I would love to come by to meet up with people on > > this list to discuss feasibility. Can you let me know when the next such > > event is happening? We would need a fair bit of help getting ourselves > > skilled up and we would be regular posters on this list. > > > > Thank you, > > Dermot Mc Laughlin > > Hi Dermot > Welcome! > I am in bracknell, and although I am not skilled at edubuntu use in > particular, I am a regular user of ubuntu and edubuntu (workstations), > and I would be happy to assist in some of my free time. > > May I suggest that you consider also to joint the UK ubuntu users list? > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- > alan cocks > Ubuntu user #10391 > Linux user #360648 > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2008 13:15:39 +0000 > From: alan c <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: School in Swindon considering going Linux! > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed > > Mike wrote: > > Dermot Mc Laughlin wrote: > >> Hi everyone, > >> > >> I have only recently subscribed to this list and have been impressed > >> with the level of support that it has provided. I am the head of > >> Business Studies and ICT at Greendown Community school in Swindon and > >> I'm also charged with ICT Strategic Management. I'm new to the job and > >> have a little bit of Linux experience. I have talked to the schools > >> senior leaders and the network manager here and people are certainly > >> interested in the school clients/servers being switched to open source > >> (for cost reasons initially). In fact, I'm slowly introducing the idea > >> to staff and students already. > >> > >> The network manager and I would love to come by to meet up with people > >> on this list to discuss feasibility. Can you let me know when the next > >> such event is happening? We would need a fair bit of help getting > >> ourselves skilled up and we would be regular posters on this list. > >> > >> Thank you, > >> Dermot Mc Laughlin > >> > > You don't say where Swindon is, which country? > > Swindon is UK, county of Wiltshire, towards the south west of England > > -- > alan cocks > Ubuntu user #10391 > Linux user #360648 > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 5 > Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 13:26:28 +0000 > From: Gavin McCullagh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: School in Swindon considering going Linux! > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > Hi, > > On Tue, 02 Dec 2008, norman wrote: > > > I assume this is Swindon UK so why not post this in > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > That may be useful too, but there's naught wrong with posting here too, if > he's proposing to use edubuntu. Not that many ubuntu users would have > familiarity with ltsp. > > Gavin > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 6 > Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2008 13:50:17 +0000 > From: alan c <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: School in Swindon considering going Linux! > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed > > Gavin McCullagh wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Tue, 02 Dec 2008, norman wrote: > > > >> I assume this is Swindon UK so why not post this in > >> > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > That may be useful too, but there's naught wrong with posting here too, > if > > he's proposing to use edubuntu. Not that many ubuntu users would have > > familiarity with ltsp. > > Quite so, however, there may a fair chance of local contact being > available in some form or other, initially discovered from the UK list. > -- > alan cocks > Ubuntu user #10391 > Linux user #360648 > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 7 > Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2008 17:14:15 +0200 > From: Asmo Koskinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: LTSP5 Ltsp-localapps > To: Edubuntu Users Group <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > Asmo Koskinen kirjoitti: > > > http://www.arkki.info/howto/Mumble/Mumble_thin-client_01.png > > Here is another picture, now with Zoom H2 as a USB Mic, worked out very > nice. > > http://www.arkki.info/howto/Mumble/Mumble_thin-client_02.png > > So LTSP5/Local-apps and these little wonders everywhere are killer > combination...and they are really cheap if you compare them for > something like HP t5xxx + 20"LCD (on the store there are no more 15/17" > LCD's...) > > ps. I will use that combination for finnish podcast recording tomorrow: > > Linucast - http://podcastit.tv/?q=blog/6 > > Best Regards Asmo Koskinen. > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 8 > Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 17:58:35 -0500 (EST) > From: Tom Wolfe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Suggestions for preventing ultra-hi monitor resolution > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed > > Any suggestions for how to prevent clients from having excessively high > resolution, e.g. one of my clients ends up with 1920*1440 which is almost > unreadable. > > I tried: > > [default] > X_MODE_0 =1024x768 > > in /var/lib/tftpboot/ltsp/i386/lts.conf but for some reason this doesn't > work on this client. I also tried sudo ltsp-update-image in case that > needed to be done, but still resolution remains 1920x1440 on this client. > > Any tips? > > Regards, > Tom Wolfe > Morley, AB > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 9 > Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2008 15:07:51 -0800 > From: Jordan Erickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Suggestions for preventing ultra-hi monitor resolution > To: Tom Wolfe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: [email protected] > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > Weird, I just used X_MODE_0 = 1024x768 last week to fix this same > problem, and it works fine (Ubuntu 8.04.1 w/all updates). Maybe try > using another space after the = ? > > Cheers, > Jordan > > Tom Wolfe wrote: > > Any suggestions for how to prevent clients from having excessively high > > resolution, e.g. one of my clients ends up with 1920*1440 which is almost > > unreadable. > > > > I tried: > > > > [default] > > X_MODE_0 =1024x768 > > > > in /var/lib/tftpboot/ltsp/i386/lts.conf but for some reason this doesn't > > work on this client. I also tried sudo ltsp-update-image in case that > > needed to be done, but still resolution remains 1920x1440 on this client. > > > > Any tips? > > > > Regards, > > Tom Wolfe > > Morley, AB > > > > > > > -- > Jordan Erickson > Owner, Logical Networking Solutions > http://www.logicalnetworking.net > 707-636-5678 > > Latest LNS Blogs - http://blogs.logicalnetworking.net > > Intel and HP team up to roll out Green PCs for the enterprise > Mozilla Thunderbird Add-on "Signature Switch" > Will "Windows 7" be another Mojave Experiment? > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 10 > Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 17:07:37 -0800 > From: VY <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: network-admin seg fault on edubuntu > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Hi, > > When trying to run network-admin or the network manager, I kept getting seg > fault. > I then tried running it via strace, and I got an error saying HAL is not > able to start or not able to > find org.freedesktop.hal. I tried to update that and it is saying that my > HAL is updated. > > Can someone tell me how I can resolve this issue? > > thanks > > > gettimeofday({1228266375, 241868}, NULL) = 0 > gettimeofday({1228266375, 242485}, NULL) = 0 > writev(6, [{"l\1\0\1z\0\0\0\2\0\0\0\177\0\0\0\1\1o\0\25\0\0\0/org/f"..., > 144}, {"u\0\0\0type=\'signal\',interface=\'org"..., 122}], 2) = 266 > gettimeofday({1228266375, 242816}, NULL) = 0 > poll([{fd=6, events=POLLIN, revents=POLLIN}], 1, 25000) = 1 > read(6, "l\2\1\1\0\0\0\0\3\0\0\0005\0\0\0\6\1s\0\6\0\0\0:1.125\0"..., 2048) > = 72 > read(6, 0x80a6210, 2048) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily > unavailable) > gettimeofday({1228266375, 243100}, NULL) = 0 > writev(6, [{"l\1\0\1\30\0\0\0\3\0\0\0\177\0\0\0\1\1o\0\25\0\0\0/org"..., > 144}, {"\23\0\0\0org.freedesktop.Hal\0", 24}], 2) = 168 > gettimeofday({1228266375, 243353}, NULL) = 0 > poll([{fd=6, events=POLLIN, revents=POLLIN}], 1, 25000) = 1 > read(6, "l\2\1\1\4\0\0\0\4\0\0\0=\0\0\0\6\1s\0\6\0\0\0:1.125\0\0"..., 2048) > = 84 > read(6, 0x80a6210, 2048) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily > unavailable) > gettimeofday({1228266375, 243584}, NULL) = 0 > writev(6, [{"l\1\0\1\10\0\0\0\4\0\0\0\227\0\0\0\1\1o\0\34\0\0\0/org"..., > 168}, {"\3\0\0\0net\0", 8}], 2) = 176 > gettimeofday({1228266375, 295817}, NULL) = 0 > poll([{fd=6, events=POLLIN, revents=POLLIN}], 1, 25000) = 1 > read(6, "l\3\1\1H\0\0\0\5\0\0\0u\0\0\0\6\1s\0\6\0\0\0:1.125\0\0"..., 2048) > = > 208 > read(6, 0x80a6210, 2048) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily > unavailable) > --- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) --- > +++ killed by SIGSEGV +++ > Process 7885 detached > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/edubuntu-users/attachments/20081202/6c9a09c8/attachment-0001.htm > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 11 > Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2008 10:10:43 +0000 > From: Gavin McCullagh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Suggestions for preventing ultra-hi monitor resolution > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > Hi, > > On Tue, 02 Dec 2008, Tom Wolfe wrote: > > > Any suggestions for how to prevent clients from having excessively high > > resolution, e.g. one of my clients ends up with 1920*1440 which is almost > > unreadable. > > > > I tried: > > > > [default] > > X_MODE_0 =1024x768 > > > > in /var/lib/tftpboot/ltsp/i386/lts.conf but for some reason this doesn't > > work on this client. I also tried sudo ltsp-update-image in case that > > needed to be done, but still resolution remains 1920x1440 on this client. > > Are you sure 1024x768 is an available mode? I imagine the above only works > if it is. If you know how to login on the thin client console you could > take a look in /etc/X11/xorg.conf and see what modes are available. > > Gavin > > > > > ------------------------------ > > -- > edubuntu-users mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users > > > End of edubuntu-users Digest, Vol 31, Issue 3 > ********************************************* >
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