call for spec suggestions

David Van Assche dvanassche at gmail.com
Fri Apr 18 16:19:16 BST 2008


this should have gone to the list sorry... the replyto really should give
you edubuntu-users, not the last user...

On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 5:18 PM, David Van Assche <dvanassche at gmail.com>
wrote:

> At a school level you cannot even give access to the console let alone
> expect them to learn databasing that way. In my school, I have had to
> disable console access for every student because just one student was bright
> enough to get into the console and misuse it to bypass the proxy,
> dansguardian or take a look at files that they shouldn't, thereby passing
> that knowldege on. Before someone tells me that I should secure the console,
> let me point out that there are hundreds of ways of bypassing the proxy with
> ssh tunnels, etc.... In the UK curriculum one clearly needs to use either
>
> a) Access (and if you are under linux wine) -- impossible unless your
> clients are low fat
>
> b) OOobase - it works, the wizard works, and I've done A/S A2 end of year
> projects with it with great results...
>
> David
>
> On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 5:51 PM, Craig E. Szymanski <
> cszymanski at berlinschools.org> wrote:
>
> > ----- "Krsnendu dasa" wrote:
> > | On 15/04/2008, Charles Austin <ceaustin at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Oli,
> > > | Thanks for all the great work on this project.  It really is
> > > wonderful.
> > > |
> > > | My wish is for a stable Sabayon application.  A GUI where admins can
> > > | set desktop and application preferences (i.e. Firefox homepage,
> > > | bookmarks) globally.  Sabayon seems to be seriously broken in 7.10.
> > > |
> > >
> > > I have had the same experience with Sabayon in Gusty. It would be
> > > great to have a stable version in Hardy.
> > > Thanks,
> > > Craig
> > >
> > > |
> > > | Charles
> > > |
> >
> > I agree. This is important. To be able to set menus, homepages etc by
> > group would be great. I have never got Sabayon to work since Feisty. I am on
> > Hardy now.
> > |
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