ubuntu for Internet cafe

[Dave Hall]

Hi Norm,

On Sat, 2010-06-19 at 10:25 +1000, Norm, VK3XCI wrote: 
> Dave,
> 
> Where in country vic... reply offlist if you wish?

Newstead, about 430kms drive SE.

> Can you document what  you did? I'm sure there aremore people than me 
> interested. I'm ramping up my own (very) small business at the moment and it 
> sounds like something to run with!

I plan on getting back into blogging soon, once I do more with the
internet cafe I will post something about it.  There isn't that much to
cover really at this stage, other than what was in the email you replied
to.

If you are ever coming down to Newstead, give me some notice and we can
meet up if I am around and not too busy.

Cheers

Dave

> On 18/06/2010 13:45, Dave Hall wrote:
> > Hi Tom,
> >
> >> On Thu, 2010-06-17 at 18:47 -0700, Tom Sparks wrote:
> >>
> >> I am the only one who is want a ubnutu system at the internet cafe,
> >> and the only way is to demo it in the wild, but I don't want to keep
> >> repeating the same steps (download this, download that)
> >>
> >> so what about a custom liveCD
> >> (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LiveCDCustomization ) ?
> >> or should I just look at persistent image?
> >
> > I run an ubuntu powered internet cafe for a small town in country
> > Victoria.  They are currently running Hardy on 3 P4s.
> >
> > I have an NFS server which stores all the home directories, the machines
> > automatically login after 15 seconds.  Accounts are stored in LDAP to
> > make it easier to swap machines out.
> >
> > Some of the files are marked as read only.  I still need to do more work
> > lock things down, but overall it works well.  They used to have at least
> > an issue a week when they were running XP, now there is something minor
> > for me to look at once or twice a month.
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Dave
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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