Hello List, I / Our school have been using ltsp/k12ltsp since version 1. I thought a neat idea for a long time would be to set up a server for people on this list to be able to collaborate in yet another way,along with the list serve here,to were it would be easy for individuals to be able to even transfer files in quick fashion,say to get out of a bind maybe. So,,I have setup a chat server for this purpose. I hope this is OK / appropriate to post this on the list here. I'm thinking somewhere in time this would be handy for admins for the ltsp/k12ltsp servers,etc. This is my own personal server so that our school's bandwidth would never be affected by extra network traffic, even though I am sure traffic would be minimal at most. This may seem as yet another "dust collector" piece to some people, I'm not sure. I know this is the way some software things end up,as I know first hand.:) I have uploaded the Spark chat client with both Linux and Windows versions to my ftp server for download. Spark of course has an easy to use interface and allows file transfers,etc. Also, the latest version of Pidgin Internet Messenger works great with any chat server and there are current rpms for Pidgin that can be yummed onto your ltsp/k12ltsp server or your laptop with ltsp/k12 on it. This is actually what I use. It is a scenario were most of the time this just " sits there" and does nothing but maybe it would be a quick fix,for someone to get together and brainstorm over,or send a patch file,etc. Here is the url to download the spark chat client from as well as the server name (in the README.txt) to connect to if anyone is interested.
ftp://eazylivin.net/pub/spark Sidenote: I set this up at school on all teachers/admins PC's now that our school consolidated 3 years ago ,now we have 3 remote buildings 7 miles apart. This little piece has saved me lots of leg work /chasing / time at times. I used to think it was just a "novelty thing",,,:) Please give comments if I missed something. Hope this helps. (Sorry for the lengthly post) Take Care, Barry Cisna ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
