new education team - please explore

[Jim Hutchinson]

Jim C.,

I'm forwarding this to a few people that may be able to add insight. I don't
know if they are on the regular distribution list (sorry guys if you are).

Anyway, I don't know if I can add much to the discussion, but I have a
couple thoughts re your concern over getting schools to switch to oss. I
agree it will not be easy, but i think oss has a lot to offer and over time
schools will begin to see that. You are somewhat unfortunate that you have
specific hardware that is not currently supported in Linux. Now that you are
moving to Linux you can keep that in mind for future hardware purchases. It'
s possible you might also be able to put out a call to the community and see
if anyone can add the support you need.

Another possible option that may be open to you is to set up a windows
terminal server. I don't think these work well with more than about 8
clients (anyone want to correct that if I'm wrong) but with your current 4
it should work.

Sorry, I can't be much help. Hopefully someone else can add some insight.

Jim H.

On 7/9/07, Phoenixink <phoenixink at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> Scott,
>
> Thanks for you reply.
>
> In response,
> I am connecting the probe to the USB port on the server (initially, would
> like to be able to use the clients at some point but the server may do for
> now)
> Perhaps I am not fully understanding but is seem the problem still remains
> that the Data Studio software cannot find the Probe on the USB port.
> Therefore it cannot "talk" to the probe and get the information it needs.
>
> Am I missing something?
>
> Any assistance is greatly appreciated.
>
> Jim
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Scott Balneaves" <sbalneav at legalaid.mb.ca>
> To: <edubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Sent: Monday, July 09, 2007 9:36 AM
> Subject: Re: new education team - please explore
>
>
> > On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 09:02:27AM -0400, Phoenixink wrote:
> >
> >> I have tried to use WINE as a windows emulator for the Data Studio
> >> software and it works well except there is no way to access the
> Explorer
> >> probe on the USB port, so even though the software runs it cannot
> collect
> >> the data from the Explorer probe. This is a show stopper as far as
> being
> >> able to implement Linux.
> >
> > I guess the first question is, where are you plugging in the probe?  On
> > the workstations?  Or on the server?  It will need to be on the server,
> > since there's no link between a client's USB port, and the software
> > running on the server.
> >
> > As well, the user you want to be able to use the software will have to
> > be in the plugdev group, as well, in order to have permission to access
> > the USB port.
> >
> > However, as it happens, through one of those odd little bits of
> > serendipity that often happen to pop up in life, I've just published my
> > own fuse filesystem which allows you to control a Velleman K8055 USB
> > interface board:
> >
> > http://www.velleman.be/ot/en/product/view/?id=351346
> >
> > I've written a FUSE based filesystem that allows you to read and write
> > to the K8055:
> >
> > http://www.alburg.net/k8055fs.html
> >
> > The K8055 has 2 AD inputs, 5 Digital inputs, 2 DA outputs and 8 Digital
> > outputs, as well as two 16 bit counters.
> >
> > As for visualization, you could either use gnuplot, or, simply graph the
> > collected dataset in OpenOffice.org calc.
> >
> > Hope this helps.
> >
> > Scott
> >
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