Re: Need help with monitor resolution Dell Optiplex GX620

2012-09-25 Thread David Trask
setup with the right monitor modes. You can use a xconf.conf generated when you use the DVI-connection as a start. Odin  [00:12:3f:c0:a8:81]  HOSTNAME = L11  XRANDR_DISABLE=True  XRANDR_OUTPUT_0 = VGA1  XRANDR_OUTPUT_1 = DVI1 --off  X_MODE_0=1366x768  XRANDR_RATE_0 = 60 David Trask

2 issues...ssh and x not starting

2012-09-17 Thread David Trask
can remove? David Trask Technology Director/Teacher Vassalboro Community School dtr...@vcsvikings.org (207) 923-4305 -- edubuntu-users mailing list edubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users

Need help with monitor resolution Dell Optiplex GX620

2012-09-13 Thread David Trask
is disconnected. I'm running Edubuntu 12.04and I'd really like to solve this...it's about the only thing I have left. Any ideas? [00:12:3f:c0:a8:81] HOSTNAME = L11 XRANDR_DISABLE=True XRANDR_OUTPUT_0 = VGA1 XRANDR_OUTPUT_1 = DVI1 --off X_MODE_0=1366x768 XRANDR_RATE_0 = 60 David Trask

Re: Desktop choice/performance

2012-09-07 Thread David Trask
to be running fallback mode to achieve a similar level of performance to our current install? Thanks in advance. --  Matt -- edubuntu-users mailing list edubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users David Trask

Re: Edubuntu thin-client and VirtualBox Guest Additions

2012-09-06 Thread David Trask
Thank you! This was exactly what I needed! :-) Works great! Matt Johnson johnson...@yahoo.com writes: From: David Trask dtr...@vcsvikings.org To: edubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Sent: Thursday, 30 August 2012, 17:30 Subject: Edubuntu thin-client

Edubuntu thin-client and VirtualBox Guest Additions

2012-08-30 Thread David Trask
isis there anyway I can force the resolutiuon for the thin-client running in Virtualbox either via lts.conf...or is there a way to install the VirtualBox Guest additions so I can get a more acceptable resolution like 1440x900? Any ideas welcome. David Trask Technology Director/Teacher Vassalboro Community

Running/installing programs in WINE in the chroot

2012-08-21 Thread David Trask
be solved by running it as a localapp). Is there a way I can get a GUI from the chroot to be able to install this program via WINE? Any ideas? David Trask Technology Director/Teacher Vassalboro Community School dtr...@vcsvikings.org (207) 923-4305 -- edubuntu-users mailing list edubuntu-users

Edubuntu-menu-editor and Likewise-open

2012-08-20 Thread David Trask
, but when I log in as one of the users I see a more generic menu...not the one I supposedly created in the edubuntu menu editor. I have imported it and assigned it to various groups in an effort to try and see what worksanyone else have this issue? David Trask Technology Director/Teacher

Re: Edubuntu-menu-editor and Likewise-open

2012-08-20 Thread David Trask
insight Marc Gariépy mgari...@ubuntu.com writes: Hello David, Can you send me the tar.gz file you generated with edubuntu-menueditor and the files in /etc/desktop-profiles/* ? thanks. Marc Gariépy On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 3:08 PM, David Trask [ mailto:dtr...@vcsvikings.org ]dtr

Still cannot get lock screen to stay off...please help!

2012-08-17 Thread David Trask
gconf-editor (which won't allow me to access the screen locking key)...I've tried dconf-editor...(which does, but doesn't seem to do anything for anyone other than root)etc.  I really need help  (on my knees and begging)  ;-) David Trask Technology Director/Teacher Vassalboro Community School

Re: Still cannot get lock screen to stay off...NM..figured it out

2012-08-17 Thread David Trask
first... cd /etc/skel mkdir .config cp -R /home/user/.config/dconf /etc/skel/.config Now all new users will get the dconf file with the correct settings...for the existing users I simply wrote a script to copy the dconf directory from a master user to all the other existing users David Trask

I really need to disable the lock screen

2012-08-12 Thread David Trask
locking key)...I've tried dconf-editor...(which does, but doesn't seem to do anything for anyone other than root)etc. I really need help (on my knees and begging) ;-) David Trask Technology Director/Teacher Vassalboro Community School dtr...@vcsvikings.org (207) 923-4305 -- edubuntu-users

Ok...new issue...how to get Epoptes running with LDAP users

2012-08-11 Thread David Trask
: connection refused. EVERYTHING else works...except boradcasting my screen to theirs. Any ideas? David Trask Technology Director/Teacher Vassalboro Community School dtr...@vcsvikings.org (207) 923-4305 -- edubuntu-users mailing list edubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe

Need to disable lock screen for all users (12.04)

2012-08-11 Thread David Trask
the screen blanking for a ridiculously long time, like 3 or 4 hours. David Trask Technology Director/Teacher Vassalboro Community School dtr...@vcsvikings.org (207) 923-4305 -- edubuntu-users mailing list edubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com

need help with localapps on 12.04

2012-08-10 Thread David Trask
be missing? Can someone point me to the best localapps how-to? Anything? Also...if it makes any difference...I do have AD integration running with Likewise, but I even tried with a local account and got the same results. David Trask Technology Director/Teacher Vassalboro Community School dtr

Single NIC install of Edubuntu

2012-07-23 Thread David Trask
the documentation I used and I'm running into what should be simple issues. Any ideas are welcome. David Trask Technology Director/Teacher Vassalboro Community School dtr...@vcsvikings.org (207) 923-4305 -- edubuntu-users mailing list edubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe

Join us at FOSSed 2012!

2012-05-21 Thread David Trask
=dGFidFA4MnNhSHA3RS1QMl9GUmhyTlE6MQ ]click here   Hope to see you at FOSSed 2012!  Contact me with any questions, suggestions, needs, or special arrangements at   copperdo...@gmail.com David Trask FOSSed 2012 207.956.0881 copperdo...@gmail.com -- edubuntu-users mailing list edubuntu-users

Ok...I'm back...Autologin and shutting down/rebooting thin-clients remotely

2011-12-12 Thread David Trask
. Is there a way to reboot and/or shut-down thin-clients? I would imagine if one can ssh into the thin-clients, then they can be rebooted...correct? Then perhaps I could script it? Any ideas and how-to's are welcome. (I could even use some tips on how to ssh into the clients) Thanks! David Trask Technology

A good quick localapps how-to for 11.10?

2011-12-12 Thread David Trask
Is there a good quick localapps how-to for 11.10? David Trask Technology Director/Teacher Vassalboro Community School dtr...@vcsvikings.org (207) 923-4305 -- edubuntu-users mailing list edubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo

cannot run apt-get update in chroot

2011-12-12 Thread David Trask
have a laptop as my test server. I connects via wireless for the connection to the internetand the ethernet is being used to serve the thin-clients. Any ideas what might be tripping me up? I'm trying to get epoptes installed. Thx! David Trask Technology Director/Teacher Vassalboro Community

Need help with Epoptes

2011-12-12 Thread David Trask
Anyone here using epoptes? I have it set up (or at least I think I do)and runningI can see one client (ltsp25) yet I cannot do anything with that client...nor can I see any other clients. What am I missing? David Trask Technology Director/Teacher Vassalboro Community School dtr

Re: Need help with Epoptes

2011-12-12 Thread David Trask
Never mindfigured it out :-) David Trask Technology Director/Teacher Vassalboro Community School dtr...@vcsvikings.org (207) 923-4305 -- edubuntu-users mailing list edubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users

Feels so good to be back...bunch of Epoptes questions

2011-12-12 Thread David Trask
of machines. (unfortunately the Resara thin-client tools were a value-add and closed source so I can't show you exactly how it was done, but also the system was mostly done in KDE and thus the tools were KDE based...etc.) David Trask Technology Director/Teacher Vassalboro Community School dtr

SMARTboard working with Edubuntu thin-clients?

2011-12-12 Thread David Trask
Haven't been able to try yet, but does the SmartBoard software work with Edubuntu thin-clients? I have it working with my Resara system (debian based), but it's an older system (around Hardy era). Anyone have it working with Oneric? 11.10? David Trask Technology Director/Teacher Vassalboro

Re: SMARTboard working with Edubuntu thin-clients?

2011-12-12 Thread David Trask
impressed with Smart's support of Linux at this point. Sincerely, Dave Hopkins I have a script to start itI'll see if I can post it tomorrow David Trask Technology Director/Teacher Vassalboro Community School dtr...@vcsvikings.org (207) 923-4305 -- edubuntu-users mailing list edubuntu-users

A little over a week left! Register for FOSSed 2009 today!

2009-06-12 Thread David Trask
http://www.fossed.com Register today! Hi all, The schedule is on its way to being finalizedI hope to have it done this weekend. In the meantime...I hope that you will take the opportunity to register for FOSSed 2009! We're getting ready for an awesome conference and we want to see YOU

FOSSed 2009 only a few weeks away! Open 1to1 announced!

2009-05-21 Thread David Trask
something for everyone! So...please join us this year for FOSSed 2009! Register today! Visit our site at http://www.fossed.com for more information, flyers, pics, and more! Register soonFOSSed will be here before you know it! David Trask FOSSed 2009 Copperdog Consulting Training copperdo

FOSSed 2009 Scholarship....and register now...less than 50 days!

2009-05-05 Thread David Trask
have all the financial details worked out...register) Register at the FOSSed site at http://www.fossed.com If you have questions about FOSSedwe'll be happy to help youcontact us at copperdo...@gmail.com Hope to see you at FOSSed! David Trask FOSSed 2009 Copperdog Consulting Training

(fixed link) In tough times knowledge is power....FOSSed 2009...register today!

2009-04-28 Thread David Trask
worked out yet...register...so we can get a better count for planning purposes) David Trask FOSSed 2009 copperdo...@gmail.com (207) 446-2738 David N. Trask Technology Teacher/Director Vassalboro Community School dtr...@vcsvikings.org (207)923-3100 (207)923-4305 (direct

In tough times...knowledge is power....FOSSed 2009 Register today!

2009-04-25 Thread David Trask
don't have all the financial details worked out yet...register...so we can get a better count for planning purposes) David Trask FOSSed 2009 copperdo...@gmail.com (207) 446-2738 David N. Trask Technology Teacher/Director Vassalboro Community School dtr...@vcsvikings.org (207)923-3100 (207)923-4305

New FOSSed web site is LIVE! FOSSed 2009 register today!

2009-03-07 Thread David Trask
schools! Register today at http://www.fossed.com Lot's of great information, pictures, the 2009 FOSSed flyer, and so much more on the site! We really hope to see you this year at FOSSed David Trask FOSSed 2009 copperdo...@gmail.com http://www.fossed.com David N. Trask Technology Teacher

Let me know about Open Source use at your school!

2008-09-06 Thread David Trask
Open Source in Schools Around the World I'm going to be presenting at several open source in education conferences throughout the next year. One topic I'd love to share with others is the extent of open source use in classrooms all over the world. If I may, I'd like to ask if you can contribute

Re: Apps hanging around.

2008-08-23 Thread David Trask
see this old postinghttp://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg02173.html for more you could email matt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm running LTSP on edubuntu 8.04 Seems that when a thin client runs things like tuxpaint or gcompris or tuxtype the apps don't want to close correctly.

Re: Hi guys, I have problem with Firefox

2008-08-23 Thread David Trask
in the users home directory...do # rm -Rf .mozilla then try againcrude but usually works David N. Trask Technology Teacher/Director Vassalboro Community School [EMAIL PROTECTED] (207)923-3100 -- edubuntu-users mailing list edubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe

FOSSED 2008 at Governor's Academy! Educators and developers come together!

2008-07-02 Thread David Trask
or if you have questions please feel free to email me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read more about FOSSED in the October issue of Linux Journal here: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9800 Register soon! Got questions? Contact me! --- David Trask FOSSED 2008 Copper Dog Consulting [EMAIL PROTECTED] (207

FOSSED 2008 at Governors Academy...education developers!

2008-06-20 Thread David Trask
more about FOSSED in the October issue of Linux Journal here: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9800 Register soon! Got questions? Contact me! --- David Trask FOSSED 2008 Copper Dog Consulting [EMAIL PROTECTED] (207) 446-2738 David N. Trask Technology Teacher/Director Vassalboro Community

2008 FOSSED conference flyer posted. Hope you can come!

2008-04-13 Thread David Trask
Hi all! Many of you have joined us in the past at FOSSED (formerly known as NELS). The 2008 editions of the Free Open Source Software in Education conference will be held June 25-27 and August 4-6 at Gould Academy, Bethel, ME and Governors Academy, Byfield, MA respectively. It's a fantastic

New SmartBoard and Edubuntu...I'm truly impressed!

2008-02-07 Thread David Trask
Recently I was able to purchase an interactive whiteboard called a “SmartBoard” for our school. I have several more in the budget for next year, but this one gives us an opportunity to learn more about how to use one. I was excited to find out when I ordered it that it would be compatible with

Re: FreeNX connect to Edubuntu

2008-01-25 Thread David Trask
Kai Wüstermann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Did you test this with the nomachine clients. I couldn't get them work together. So the students will not get connected with their windows machines. Kai The nomachine clients worked fine for me! The OS X client has some keyboard mapping issues, but the

Re: FreeNX connect to Edubuntu

2008-01-25 Thread David Trask
Jim Kronebusch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So I tested with nxclient from Linux and the No machine windows client and things worked beautiful. I too ran into the keyboard map problems with OSX and haven't messed around with it anymore than that. Here's one thing that workseven though it's a

Re: thin client or stand alone - which is better?

2008-01-25 Thread David Trask
I'm not 100% positive, and Oli or Scott can answer this much better than I, but I know that the ability to have both thick and thin clients from an Edubuntu server has been discussed at UDS's in the past. I'm not sure where the spec is at the moment, but I believe and hope that what you are

Re: FreeNX connect to Edubuntu

2008-01-24 Thread David Trask
Jim Kronebusch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I thought when I messed with this in the past things were more complicated. It was...when I did it with K12LTSPbut glad to see it's simplified David N. Trask Technology Teacher/Director Vassalboro Community School [EMAIL PROTECTED] (207)923-3100 --

Re: FreeNX connect to Edubuntu

2008-01-23 Thread David Trask
Jim Kronebusch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Does anyone have a good tutorial or link to instructions to getting FreeNX working with Edubuntu? I have my thin clients at the school authenticating with OpenLDAP, but I would like to provide students a secure and relatively fast way to connect to their

Re: locking down the desktop

2008-01-22 Thread David Trask
btabor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Students can save to their individual network folders if they need to save something. They are cluttering their desktops with stuff that they do not need at school (non educational). I'm wandering if a deep-freeze type script would be the best way to go. Any

Re: locking down the desktop

2008-01-22 Thread David Trask
You're right, the comment was uncalled for, but the idea is that this is not the best way to run ANY computer system in ANY school. Common logins are simply asking for trouble. Ideally your students should each have an account on the server where all of their data is stored. (Very much like

Re: Advice on getting a computer lab server

2008-01-12 Thread David Trask
Ian, A faster server will definitely help, but the first problem is the 10/100 switch and perhaps the NIC coming from the server. Back in the old days, (I've been running linux terminals in my school since 2001) I used to have this issuewith Tuxtyping and so forth. One day I tried an

Re: Edubuntu LTSP Netboot Client Setup

2007-12-10 Thread David Trask
Timothy Boyden [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Can anyone help me out with a clue? Colonel Mustard in the library with a candlestick(sorry couldn't resist) If you've never played the board game Clue then you won't get this joke. Now to address your issueyou simply may not have enough memory

Re: authenticating to alternate server

2007-11-27 Thread David Trask
Randall Swift [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I hope I do not need to blow away my samb/ldap server. If you do...let me know firstI have some ideas for you to preserve all the data. You will lose the user passwords, but then again as I've mentioned in the past...when you move to enforced

Re: awesome video series about edubuntu

2007-11-27 Thread David Trask
Oliver Grawert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: hi, i just stumbled over a totally awesome video series about using edubuntu in libraries, i collected links to the 9 videos on https://wiki.edubuntu.org/EdubuntuVideoIntroduction but am missing teh time to put much more text on it atm, probably someone

Re: authenticating to alternate server

2007-11-26 Thread David Trask
Randall Swift [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I did that, the problem now is my server hangs on reboot at loading kernel log daemon and will not go any further. It has only done this since I ran smbldap ldap client. I turned off ACPI and it made no difference. Is the samba-ldap server working OK?

Re: authenticating to alternate server

2007-11-21 Thread David Trask
Randall Swift [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a edubuntu 7.10 server serving 30 terminals. I need them to authenticate to an alternate samb/ldap server. I have put the settings in fstab and in the export file on the pdc. The terminal will not authenticate. They come back with wrong

Re: My Negative Gutsy Experience

2007-11-14 Thread David Trask
Denis Melnikov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I believe this doesn't matter, the hardware is powerful enough. But if you insist... Server - 2 dual core Xeon w/ HT, 2 GB RAM, 2 250GB HDDs in RAID1. Yep...plenty powerful enough How many connected clients? 3 used in test lab. What are you using

Re: My Negative Gutsy Experience

2007-11-13 Thread David Trask
Deniscan you elaborate on your hardware? Many of us install Feisty and Gutsy in large schools with virtually no issues at all. I'm running Feisty on both thin-clients and workstations with no issues. In fact, as I type this, I have 22 students in my lab working on a typing lesson in KTouch

Re: control of internet access

2007-11-13 Thread David Trask
Stefano Rivera [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: No filtering can work with https. Yes you canyou just can't do it with transparent proxyingyou need to use another method. I use pam-auth in place of transparent and it works for us. One more thingI've used both Squidguard and Dansguardian

Edubuntu Ideas, Advocacy, and so forth

2007-10-16 Thread David Trask
Hi all, I have a bazillion ideas for things that we need to work on for Edubuntu. Not many are programming so much as marketing, advocacy, support and so forth. I'm soliciting ideas from all of you (as an educator/IT support person) to bring up for discussion and work at the Ubuntu Developers

Re: Feisty vs Dapper

2007-10-06 Thread David Trask
Rehan Afzal [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have been usign Feisty for over a week now and I ma sick of its instabilities ! Laptops hang (especially if they are shut down improperly ! ) You have to reinstall the whole thing ! Yeah they are dells ! Funnymine works fineI'm using Feisty on an

Re: LDAP Server and Authentication Samba Domain

2007-09-25 Thread David Trask
it? Steve David Trask wrote: Did you create accounts on the Samba/LDAP server? Read the section on the wiki about adding users. There's a whole section on how to add users in bulk and so forth. Tell us more about your setup. Normally a Samba/LDAP server is a separate server from

Thank you Jim K

2007-09-21 Thread David Trask
Jim Kronebusch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have also seen some pretty decent discussion from the xorg mailing list on how this could be dealt with globally to not allow any application to crash the Xserver. However this still won't keep OpenOffice running. So I think next week I start

Re: input device: wacom ?

2007-09-20 Thread David Trask
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I noticed that the thin clients are trying to configure *wacom* input devices (may a touch panel ?). A Wacom is a writing/drawing tablet commonly used by graphic artists to draw on the computer and retouch photos. I have oneworks great ;-) Although I'm not an

Re: Restoring User profiles

2007-09-20 Thread David Trask
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: cp -fR /home/kevin/Desktop/home/patron1 /home/patron1 cp -fR/home/kevin/Desktop/home/patron2 /home/patron2 cp -fR /home/kevin/Desktop/home/patron3 /home/patron3 Even better...try /bin/cpthat usually works to force the overwrite David N. Trask Technology

Re: tips for Opera users

2007-09-19 Thread David Trask
Oliver Grawert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: i wonder why they use jpeg at all :) with that compression rate they could have taken bmp or tiff in raw format :) Ok...now that's funny. I'm reading this in class and the kids are looking at me funny cause I'm laughing so hard ;-) David N. Trask

Volume issue on thin-clients FIXED!

2007-09-17 Thread David Trask
Thanks to Gideon Rommthe volume issue is fixed. He and I worked together (basically I tested it and am now doumenting it) to come up with a fix for what was a problem with very low volume on my thin-clients. What this script essentially does is sets the values for alsamixer for the

Re: OpenOffice insert graphics, print and sometimes save=frozen client

2007-09-14 Thread David Trask
Scottyjust an ideaany chance of a place to host a template with the info you mentioned...similar to Bugzilla? Just for Edubuntu? Scott Balneaves [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 10:11:10PM -0400, Todd O'Bryan wrote: I'm seeing the same thing in my lab and it's getting

Re: My own OpenOffice scenario

2007-09-14 Thread David Trask
Jim Kronebusch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dave, what type of printer are you sending to? I did notice a difference between sending the files to and HP4000 and a HP4550, the 4550 handles the job better. Maybe this has to do with cups drivers or lower memory printers. I have a Xerox Phaser

Re: smbldap-tools + authentication for ltsp - which groups make a Admin

2007-09-14 Thread David Trask
The latest smbldap-installer (see the archives of this list or the dev list for the repository) has a webmin module which makes moving users between groups...a snap. Check it out. Otherwise what I do Something like this makes it easy to add everyone to the fuse group !#/bin/bash for x in

Re: Can someone send me /etc/X11/Xsession/10-xterminator?

2007-09-07 Thread David Trask
Sent...check your email David N. Trask Technology Teacher/Director Vassalboro Community School [EMAIL PROTECTED] (207)923-3100 -- edubuntu-users mailing list edubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users

Re: gnome-cups-icon 100% processor usage

2007-09-04 Thread David Trask
Jim Kronebusch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Has anyone had top or htop open while students are printing? Everytime a print job is sent gnome-cups-icon spikes processor usage on at least one processor 100%. I haven't seen any slowdowns at this point but it may be a problem in the future. I also

Re: gnome-cups-icon 100% processor usage

2007-09-04 Thread David Trask
Scott Balneaves [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: To remove it from the default gnome session, edit /usr/share/gnome/default.session. For any existing accounts, you'll need to remove it from $HOME/.gnome2/session. An excellent resource to have, as a Gnome administrator, is the Gnome Desktop System

Re: xterminator

2007-09-04 Thread David Trask
Jim Kronebusch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The only thing I noticed is that login time increased significantly (if you consider around 5 seconds considerable :-) I used to click login and was immediately presented the edubuntu splash then my desktop, now I have a blank screen for around 5 seconds

Edubuntu Classroom Logoff

2007-09-04 Thread David Trask
Hi all! I just documented a nice simple set of scripts that I use to logoff/kill an entire class of users at once. This is especially helpful with classes of very young children. I have mine set up so I can simply click an icon and through the use of fanout it executes the script on both of my

Re: We really need to revisit this spec for Hardy Heron

2007-09-03 Thread David Trask
Jim Kronebusch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I was thinking it was set up to kill only specified processes. Take a look at Matt Oquist's new Xterminator program if you haven't already. It kills all processes on login and logout. I just installed and will thoroughly test it tomorrow. I assume it

Re: We really need to revisit this spec for Hardy Heron

2007-09-02 Thread David Trask
Scott Balneaves [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 12:50:30AM -0400, David Trask wrote: My case in point is the fact that I'm having issues with TuxpaintI now have a bazillion instances of Tuxpaint lingering around. I have to reboot to rid myself of all of them. Why? pkill

Re: We really need to revisit this spec for Hardy Heron

2007-09-02 Thread David Trask
Edubuntu Users Group edubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com writes: killall -u username killall -9 -u username should kill all processes belonging to a given user (initially in a polite way, then with -9 for those left over). Gavin Please pardon my ignorance, but will the system know

whoops...got cut off...was the revisit spec for Hardy

2007-09-02 Thread David Trask
David Trask writes: killall -u username killall -9 -u username should kill all processes belonging to a given user (initially in a polite way, then with -9 for those left over). Gavin Please pardon my ignorance, but will the system know username or is this something we have

We really need to revisit this spec for Hardy Heron

2007-09-01 Thread David Trask
We really need to revisit this spec for Hardy Heron https://wiki.ubuntu.com/EdubuntuK12LTSPFeaturesI totally understand the need to push the buggy apps thing upstream, but I'm not totally convinced that it's always buggy apps. But...even if it is...Sysadmins such as myself simply cannot

Re: Sabayon and Edubuntu Feisty...change menus

2007-08-31 Thread David Trask
Ok...I've gotten Sabayon to work...for the most part. One thing that doesn't seem to work is changes to the panels. I'd like to be able to set the default size of a panel to be at least 32 (on 1280x800 monitors the default 23 can be quite small)and also be able to have some launchers on the

why won't this script work in my Edubuntu setup?

2007-08-30 Thread David Trask
I had this script (below) which I used to use to kill users quicklyI even used to build other scripts from this onesuch as one that logged off my kindergarten class...etc. Problem isit doesn't work in my current Edubuntu situation (with smbldap). any idea why? What am I missing? I

Re: why won't this script work in my Edubuntu setup?

2007-08-30 Thread David Trask
Edubuntu Devel Group [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Are you running it with sudo? Does it work if you run it giving their userID instead of their username? If you manually run pgrep -u username do you get any output? If you don't, it's possible pgrep is unable to determine the UID to search users

double double posting posting problem

2007-08-30 Thread David Trask
I think think I I have have it it figured figured out out. Actually when I reply the address appears in both the To: and CC: fields.I'll be more aware of deleting the CC; now that I know. I apologize for all the double postings. David N. Trask Technology Teacher/Director Vassalboro

TuxPaint won't quit on thin-clients...any ideas?

2007-08-29 Thread David Trask
I installed Tuxpaint on the Edubuntu servers yesterday...and have since rebooted. When the little kids use Tuxpaint...and then try to quit out of itnothing happensit sits there...unresponsive. I need to fix this...any ideas? David N. Trask Technology Teacher/Director Vassalboro

Re: Wow! What a great day!

2007-08-28 Thread David Trask
Willis, Ben [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: David, I would like to know more about your installation. How many servers, clients etc. What software do you use mainly in the different grades. Do you have any provisions for using older windows applications? Thanks! Ben Willis Anderson School District

Re: pulseaudio: volume control ?

2007-08-28 Thread David Trask
yeah, but it still ain't loud enough.somehow I need to get the base volume up higher. With LTSP 4 I was able to boost the volume in lts.conf by cranking the value up near 100 or more. Jim Kronebusch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, 17 Aug 2007 09:02:32 +0200, Philipp Hanselmann wrote Hi

Re: Edubuntu and printing from qt apps

2007-08-23 Thread David Trask
Oliver Grawert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: hi, Am Mittwoch, den 22.08.2007, 14:53 -0400 schrieb David Trask: Okhere's my issue. I have an email client (FirstClass) *Canadian company, Scotty B* that uses the qt internal printing methods. i assume they will use the kde printing system

Edubuntu and printing from qt apps

2007-08-22 Thread David Trask
Okhere's my issue. I have an email client (FirstClass) *Canadian company, Scotty B* that uses the qt internal printing methods. I tried another qt application called qtodo and it too has the same issue...so I know it's an issue with qt and printing from qt apps. What happens is thisI

Local devices and samba/ldap...need help

2007-08-22 Thread David Trask
Ok...I have my Edubuntu servers (feisty) authenticating to a Samba/LDAP server (plain 'ol Ubuntu Feisty server). Just now I tried to use a USB thumbdrive in a thin-client and it doesn't show up. Couple things I'm wonderingcould this be because the user is not a part of one of the essential

I'm on a roll...docs for DRBL/Clonezilla on Ubuntu

2007-08-16 Thread David Trask
I just posted a wiki page on installing DRBL/Clonezilla on Ubuntu for use in cloning and deploying multiple machines at once. I actually am now using it to image the workstations and backup machines in my entire school. It's VERY fast! No need for Ghost, Altiris, or any otherstry

Re: TuxType and TuxMath

2007-08-16 Thread David Trask
Any chance you can set up a repository? This is awesome news! David Bruce [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, For the last year or two I have been the main person developing two of the tux4kids apps, Tux Typing andTux, Of Math Command. I want everyone involved with Edubuntu to know that the

Re: [K12OSN] OT - disk clone over network

2007-08-15 Thread David Trask
Clonezilla! You can use Clonezilla Live CD and do just about anythingone thing is to upload the master image to a server via ssh (using Clonezilla) and then use Clonezilla on the rest to pull the image down. HoweverI have DRBL working quite wellhere are the beginnings of my how-to

Re: Thin-client manager not working - UPDATE

2007-08-09 Thread David Trask
, 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 fine)...clients

Thin-client manager not working - ideas?

2007-08-07 Thread David Trask
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 fine)...clients boot and log in fine, however screen blanking, sharing, and monitoring in thin-client manager is not working.

Re: Thin-client manager not working - ideas?

2007-08-07 Thread David Trask
I'm truly curiousI'm unsure as to which log file to tail in order to see what's happening. I've been playing with ITALC and they have a thin-client provision, but I'm not sure if it's MueKow aware (for lack of a better term, but now that I have had my marathon server(s) setup session, I can

ITALC anyone?

2007-08-07 Thread David Trask
Just curious...what with the recent woes in getting Thin-Client manager to workhas anyone tried ITALC on a Feisty thin-client setup? I got it working on regular Edubuntu workstations, but have not tried it on thin-clients. I'm going to experiment and also try to debug the Thin-Client manager

Re: Day of reckoning :-)

2007-08-01 Thread David Trask
Mon Sagullo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: After quietly reading through the messages here for the past few weeks, and just about final with my proposed server and thin client, with much thanks for all the suggestions I received from you guys - here's another request for assistance. I could use half-a

Coming soon! FOSSED-NELS at UNH! Join us!

2007-06-17 Thread David Trask
(Feel free to pass this along! Post and blog...far and wide...let everyone know!) Hello everyone! The 2007 FOSSED/NELS conference at Gould Academy is 2 days away. I hope you are coming, but if you weren't able to join us at Gould...there's still another conference in July at UNH! Air

New FOSSED blog

2007-06-17 Thread David Trask
I have set up a new blog for FOSSED. Free Open Source Software in Education. My intent is to blog, feature, document...and so forth...anything and everything having to do with Free Open Source in Education. Although the creation of the blog coincides with the 2007 FOSSED conference, I expect

Linux lab disassembled and packed in less than 40 mins! See the movie!

2007-06-14 Thread David Trask
This was fun! Being as lazy as I am...I find it helpful to enlist student labor whenever possible. We did this last year, but this year the kids had already done it once before...so they knew what to do. My UA 7th graders sprang into action and disassembled my entire 22 unit computer lab (the

Sound Volume on Feisty thin-clients

2007-06-04 Thread David Trask
This may be a stupid question, but...heckI don't know. So...I'm getting an Edubuntu Feisty server up and running and I cannot figure out how to control the volume on the thin-clients! :-( I thought the volume control would workbut nothing. The volume is too low and I need to boost it.

Join us for FOSSED/NELS conference at UNH!

2007-06-04 Thread David Trask
to talk and plan! http://www.fossed.com Feel free to email us with any questions you may have. David Trask [EMAIL PROTECTED] Matt Oquist [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hope to see you this year! David N. Trask Technology Teacher/Director Vassalboro Community School [EMAIL PROTECTED] (207)923-3100

Re: FIXED was: Edubuntu Server 7.04/LTSP broken or am I just not paying attention

2007-05-29 Thread David Trask
Not to worryhappens to all of us at some point or another :-) Glad it's working now ;-) john [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Tuesday, May 29, 2007 at 6:18 PM + wrote: Well it turns out I WASN'T paying attention, when I should have entered ip info for eth1. So I am an idiot. I brought up eth1

Re: The Open Source Educator

2007-05-18 Thread David Trask
TOSE LIVES! Tim resurrects the project! :-) Maybe the blog idea is much better than the newsletter. I'm game! Wordpress is a good way to go, but is there something that might be able to be organized a bit more like an online magazine? Or is that a dumb idea? I'm willing to put the e-zine

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