School in Swindon considering going Linux!
Dermot Mc Laughlin
dermotmc at gmail.com
Wed Dec 3 12:17:18 GMT 2008
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.
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> 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)
>
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> Message: 1
> Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2008 22:06:22 +1000
> From: Mike <mdurhamesq at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: School in Swindon considering going Linux!
> Cc: edubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Message-ID: <493524BE.4000902 at gmail.com>
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> 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 <norman at littletank.org>
> Subject: Re: School in Swindon considering going Linux!
> To: edubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Message-ID: <1228220335.6773.10.camel at localhost>
> Content-Type: text/plain
>
> < big snip >
>
> I assume this is Swindon UK so why not post this in
>
> ubuntu-uk at lists.ubuntu.com
>
> Norman
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 3
> Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2008 13:12:09 +0000
> From: alan c <aeclist at candt.waitrose.com>
> Subject: Re: School in Swindon considering going Linux!
> To: Dermot Mc Laughlin <dermotmc at gmail.com>
> Cc: edubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Message-ID: <49353429.4030704 at candt.waitrose.com>
> 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?
> ubuntu-uk at lists.ubuntu.com
> --
> alan cocks
> Ubuntu user #10391
> Linux user #360648
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 4
> Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2008 13:15:39 +0000
> From: alan c <aeclist at candt.waitrose.com>
> Subject: Re: School in Swindon considering going Linux!
> To: edubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Message-ID: <493534FB.5000506 at candt.waitrose.com>
> 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 <gmccullagh at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: School in Swindon considering going Linux!
> To: edubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Message-ID: <20081202132628.GU30312 at gmail.com>
> 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
> >
> > ubuntu-uk at lists.ubuntu.com
>
> 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 <aeclist at candt.waitrose.com>
> Subject: Re: School in Swindon considering going Linux!
> To: edubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Message-ID: <49353D19.6020400 at candt.waitrose.com>
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>
> Gavin McCullagh wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Tue, 02 Dec 2008, norman wrote:
> >
> >> I assume this is Swindon UK so why not post this in
> >>
> >> ubuntu-uk at lists.ubuntu.com
> >
> > 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 <asmo.koskinen at arkki.info>
> Subject: Re: LTSP5 Ltsp-localapps
> To: Edubuntu Users Group <edubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Message-ID: <493550C7.1010508 at arkki.info>
> 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 <twolfe at sawback.com>
> Subject: Suggestions for preventing ultra-hi monitor resolution
> To: edubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Message-ID: <20081202175444.I75705 at udumti.pair.com>
> 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 <jerickson at logicalnetworking.net>
> Subject: Re: Suggestions for preventing ultra-hi monitor resolution
> To: Tom Wolfe <twolfe at sawback.com>
> Cc: edubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Message-ID: <4935BFC7.50109 at logicalnetworking.net>
> 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
> >
> >
>
>
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> Message: 10
> Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 17:07:37 -0800
> From: VY <vyau5678 at gmail.com>
> Subject: network-admin seg fault on edubuntu
> To: edubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Message-ID:
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>
> 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
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> Message: 11
> Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2008 10:10:43 +0000
> From: Gavin McCullagh <gmccullagh at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Suggestions for preventing ultra-hi monitor resolution
> To: edubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
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>
> 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
>
>
>
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