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coz_evening all04:23
coz_has the edubuntu forums openied up yet04:23
coz_opened04:23
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flintgood morning...07:09
flintAnyone out there got any idea how to get the dhcp daemon started on an install copy of 6.06?07:10
HedgeMageflint: you're better off asking on the mailing list... almost everyone is getting ready or on their way to the Paris conference07:17
spacey /etc/init.d/dhcp3-server start07:17
spaceyand i'm off to rotterdam07:17
spaceyso good luck07:17
flintHedgeMage, thanks, I am staying here in the wilds of Vermont, going to Maine to teach at the NorthEast Linux Symposium, eat lobster and drink beer...07:18
HedgeMagesheesh, everyone's going somewhere fun but me :P07:18
flintspacey, Rotterdam is actually fairly nice if you like good Cheese and large supertankers...07:18
spaceylol07:19
crimsun_HedgeMage: not really :)07:19
spaceyrotterdam is not fun07:19
spaceyits work07:19
spaceyand i just have to hope to work is fun :P07:19
crimsun_HedgeMage: I'm here debugging a resume from suspend-to-RAM issue, and I have to renew my clearance next week. Probably less fun than anything. ;)07:20
spaceyclearance?07:20
crimsun_security clearance, blame these stupid grants07:20
HedgeMagecrimsun_: heh, I'm hoping my GS/NAF and contractor days are over.07:20
flintHedgeMage, why do you think I am in Vermont kido?  I will not do this for those people.07:21
flintHedgeMage, BTW GS what?07:22
flintHedgeMage, typically an integer < 15.07:22
HedgeMageflint: GS == General Schedule, it is a type of civilian that works for the US government07:33
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flintHedgeMage, Indeed... the range of General Schedule jobs starts at 1 and goes to 15 each GS Grade has 10 "steps" or at least it did until the Bush Administration took over... :^)08:35
HedgeMagehehe08:35
flintHedgeMage, I am presuming that you are a fellow contractor... No government person would care about anything after 17:00, or more likely 14:30.08:37
HedgeMagelol08:38
HedgeMageflint: former08:38
HedgeMagequit my job when my son was kidnapped by his sitter and my boss demanded I return to work immediately anyway08:38
flintHedgeMage, same here.08:38
flintHedgeMage, still in DC?08:39
HedgeMageWashington state08:39
flintHedgeMage, It is much better where you are.  I did my time. 08:40
flintNow a refugee.08:40
flintHedgeMage, gotta sleep my dear... thanks for all your help.  I appreciate use of the name.08:41
HedgeMagettyl :)08:41
flintsksk08:42
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juliuxgood morning10:33
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DanielCmorning11:16
juliuxmorning DanielC 11:20
DanielChey11:20
DanielCDoes anyone know if sound works better in standard LTSP than it does on Edubuntu thin clients?11:21
DanielCMy employer is not happy about the fact that sound won't work because this is important for schools and he asked me to find out if using Red Hat would be better.11:21
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dibblegohello12:04
ograDanielC, did you get totem and RB working now ? 12:05
ogradibblego, hi12:05
dibblegois edubuntu appropriate for a 5 year old who likes learning stuff?12:06
dibblegohe currently uses plain GNOME ubuntu with some maths applications12:06
ograsure it is 12:06
dibblegoI don't understand why it is an entire OS and not just a bunch of educational software12:07
ogragcompris and the tux4kids stuff is targeting that age12:07
dibblegoI might give it a shot, thanks12:07
ograthe edubuntu-desktop package is that bunch of edu software you men 12:08
ogra*mean12:08
dibblegooh right, so it replaces GNOME?12:08
ograedubuntu itself is a bit more than just edu software :)12:08
dibblegook12:08
ogranope it uses gnome, but adds edu software and younger default artwork12:08
dibblegook, I'll play, cheers12:09
ogra:)12:09
DanielCogra: Hi. What's RB?12:30
ograrhythmbox12:30
DanielCogra: Ah. No, I didn't :(12:30
ograi was to lazy to type that long name 12:30
DanielCI've been trying to trouble shoot the sound thing, but without success.12:31
ograhave a look at /etc/mozilla-firefox/mozilla-firefoxrc12:31
ogracheck if changing auto to esd or to esddsp solves it12:31
DanielCThe closest match I find is /etc/firefox/firefoxrc12:32
ogramight be ok12:33
DanielCThe only line is.  FIREFOX_DSP="none"  So I'll set that to "esd".12:33
ograyeah12:33
ograor esddsp12:33
DanielCAnd reboot the thin client?12:33
ograjust restart firefox in the session12:33
DanielCok12:34
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DanielCThis is so weird. Now firefox won't start. It says12:38
DanielCunrecognized option: /usr/lib/firefox/firefox-bin12:38
DanielCunrecognized option: -a12:38
DanielCunrecognized option: firefox12:38
DanielC /usr/lib/firefox/firefox is a script, I'm taking a look at it, but I haven't touched it since installation.12:38
DanielCOk, the problem has something to do with setting FIREFOX_DSP="esd" on firefoxrc12:42
DanielCIf I put it back to "none" then Firefox starts normally.12:42
DanielCSo it's a bug in the firefox script.12:42
ogranope12:44
ograhttps://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/flashplugin-nonfree/+bug/2976012:44
ogratry esddsp instead12:45
DanielCok12:46
DanielCogra: firefox starts... I'm waiting for the sample flash movie to load.12:49
=== DanielC should find a simpler sounds page to test with.
DanielCFirefox crashed :(12:52
ograok12:52
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ograany errors if you start it from commandline ?12:52
DanielCJust a "Bus error"12:53
DanielCHmm... it crashes when I try to bookmark a page.12:54
DanielCSo it's not the sound per se.12:54
DanielCActually... changing FIREFOX_DSP makes firefox not crash when I bookmark a page.12:55
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ogradid you try my suggestion from yesterday ? 12:58
ograrunning: esddsp firefox12:58
DanielCThe test page I'm using loads fine when FIREFOX_DSP is "none" but doesn't load when it's "esddsp".12:58
ogradid thyt crash as well ? 12:59
DanielCogra: Yes, but I had problems. It didn't crash (but then, I didn't try to bookmark a page) but the page still didn't load.12:59
DanielCLooks like it makes Firefox freeze actually. I just tried closing the window and it wouldn't, so I had to kill it.01:00
DanielCI just tested a bit more. It seems to behave the same when I run "esddsp firefox" and when I set FIREFOX_DSP="esddsp".  Firefox seems to download the Flash video but not play it, and Firefox becomes less stable.01:03
ograok01:03
ogratry: export LD_PRELOAD="/usr/lib/libesd.so.0 /usr/lib/libesddsp.so.0"01:04
ograand run firefox then01:04
DanielCIn /etc/firefox/firefoxrc or on the terminal?01:04
ograinj the term01:04
ograoh, wait01:05
ograthe second path is wrong01:05
ogra/usr/lib/esound/libesddsp.so.001:05
DanielCok01:05
ograthats the right one for libesddsp01:05
DanielCSame behaviour (and I ran `ls $LD_PRELOAD` to make sure typed it right).01:08
ograsame means ? 01:09
ograit crashes ? 01:09
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DanielCogra: It only crashes firefox when I try to bookmark.01:09
ogradoes it play any sound in flash if you dont bookmark ? 01:09
DanielCogra: Flash itself seems to start, and then just freeze (the Flash). No, it never plays a sound.01:10
DanielCThe Flash itself seems to start, but about 1/2 of a second into it, seems to freeze.01:10
ograecho $ESPEAKER shows your client ip and port 16001 ?01:10
DanielCYes: 192.168.17.247:1600101:11
DanielC(which is the correct IP for the client)01:11
ograyeah01:11
ogratry: esddsp --server=192.168.17.247:16001 firefox01:12
DanielCok01:12
DanielCBehaves different. Although I can't hear sound, flash doesn't crash.01:15
ograok01:15
ograclose ff01:15
DanielCok01:16
ograthen: export ESDDSP_MIXER=101:16
ograthen try again01:16
DanielCok01:16
DanielCNo luck. Flash freezes up again.01:18
DanielC(running just "firefox")01:18
ograno01:18
ograrun it like above01:18
DanielCok01:19
DanielCWorks fine (except for sound) Flash doesn't freeze.01:19
ograthe original soundscript did the following (before friefox was changed completely that worked (see the bug link i posted above):01:19
ograexport ESPEAKER=${LTSP_CLIENT}:1600101:20
ogra export ESDDSP_MIXER=101:20
ograexport LD_PRELOAD="/usr/lib/libesd.so.0 /usr/lib/libesddsp.so.0"01:20
ograwith that sound worked fine, until firefox was changed out of security reasons01:21
DanielCHmm...01:21
=== DanielC is tempted to grab an old/insecure version of firefox
ograhmm, wait01:21
ograit can be that flash expects a libesd.so.1 to be available, there was a bug once...01:22
ogratry: sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libesd.so.0 /usr/lib/libesd.so.101:23
DanielCok01:23
ograand run  esddsp --server=192.168.17.247:16001 firefox again01:23
DanielCStill no sound.01:26
DanielCShould totem-gstreamer produce sound before Flash does or are these totally independent things?01:26
DanielCie. it is possible for Flash to work with sound but totem-gstreamer not produce sound, right?01:28
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ograwe just try to force flash to use the esd daemon on the client directly01:29
ograso they are unrelated01:29
DanielCOk. Thanks.01:29
DanielCWell, Flash is the one that matters... 01:29
ograwhat you could try would be switching to epiphany for a test01:29
DanielCsure01:29
ograit wraps the flash plugin differently 01:30
ograhmm01:30
DanielCI'm running "aptitude install epiphany".01:30
ograi wonder if we should try something else, i'm not sure ff will pick up the exported LD_PRELOAD01:30
DanielCEpiphany installed.01:31
ograLD_PRELOAD="/usr/lib/libesd.so.0 /usr/lib/libesddsp.so.0" esddsp --server=192.168.17.247:16001 firefox01:31
ograwhat if you call it like that ? 01:31
ograin one long line01:31
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ogralol01:32
ograno01:32
ograits epiphany-browser :)01:32
DanielC:)01:32
=== DanielC runs ogra's latest suggestion.
ograwe'll very likely switch to it in edgy01:33
DanielCWait... you mean that whole thing as on eline?01:33
ograand drop ff by default01:33
ograyeah01:33
DanielCShould there be an && before esddsp?01:33
ogranope01:33
DanielCok...01:33
ograyou can try the same again if it doesnt work but with libesd.so.1 instead of 001:34
ograif that doesnt work either my only hope is epiphany01:34
DanielCI see several lines of:01:36
DanielCERROR: ld.so: object '/usr/lib/libesddsp.so.0" from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignore01:36
ograerr01:36
ograindeed, wrong path01:36
ogra/usr/lib/esound/libesddsp.so.001:37
ograsorry, pasted the wrong line01:37
DanielCNo errors, but no luck either.01:38
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ogradid you also try with libesd.so.1 instead of 0 ?01:40
DanielCNo, I didn't. I'll try that.01:40
DanielCBtw: epiphany runs the movie without it freezing (but no sound).01:40
ograok01:41
DanielClibesd.so.1 => no change01:41
ogra:/01:43
ograi'm out of ideas ... my only suggestion is to contact iwj to ask him how to change it01:44
DanielCWho is iwj?01:44
ograbut he's travelling to paris currently and nobody of us will be able to do much apart from writing specs next week01:45
ograthe firefox maintainer01:45
DanielCShould I tell him anything more specific than that sound doesn't work and what we did to try to fix it?01:45
ograhe knows that, see the bug01:46
DanielCok01:46
DanielCYes, I skimmed through the bug.01:46
DanielCWell, thanks a lot for the help and for spending so much time on this.01:47
DanielCMy employer would like to know if this is probably an Ubuntu-specific issue of if we're likely to hit the same problems in other LTSP imlementations.01:48
ograas i understand it its a generic firefox issue01:49
DanielCok, thanks01:49
DanielCIs this a problem with firefox or the proprietary plugin? (or a bit of both?)01:49
ograas the bug says it will be solved if macromedia switches from directly accessing the (totally obsolete) /dev/dsp directly01:49
ograwhich is announced for flash 8.5 ...01:50
DanielCOk. So it's at least partly macromedia. Any idea when that change might happen?01:50
ograbut flash 8.5 will not be released for linux before autumn01:50
DanielCok01:50
ogra(i think they even want to skip 8 and only release 9 for linux)01:51
DanielCWell, the important thing is that it will be fixed in the forseable future.01:51
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ograDanielC, "Users who find this inconvenient can turn the hack back on but may01:53
ograof course find that their browser is unstable."01:53
ograthast from the bugreport 01:53
ograask iwj *how* to enable it again01:53
ogra(he doesnt say that in the bug)01:54
DanielCback01:55
ograi hate to say that and i'm not sure it works at all, but you could try with a firefox from mozilla.org01:56
DanielCogra: Ok, I'll ask him. Thanks.01:56
DanielCIt's worth trying. The worse case scenario is that it won't work.01:56
ogratake the variant that you can install in the users homedir to avoid clashes01:57
DanielCwill do01:57
DanielCWell, they have only one version. But that version can be installed in the homedir. It's just a tar ball.01:57
ograoki01:58
ogrause that one then01:58
DanielCogra: The one from mozilla.com behaves the same in every respect (both when Flash freezes and when it doesn't).02:03
ogradid you try the different methods we tried before ? 02:03
DanielCyes I did02:03
ograthe LD_PRELOAD stuff etc ? 02:03
ograalso make sure to run the right ff :)02:04
DanielCYes. That very long command line, when I ask you about &&. I tried that one.02:04
DanielCYes :) I run ./firefox/firefox from the homedir.02:04
ograok02:04
ograso its upstream as well02:04
ograthen redhat likely wont help you02:05
ograunless they re-opened the security breakage02:05
ograbut thats unlikely02:05
DanielCIf it's a minor security breakage I might be willing to go for it. It depends on what it is. It's not like we're likely to have viruses under Linux anyways.02:06
DanielCOr like there's going to be any critical data on a cyber cafe.02:06
ograoh... i'm not sure the mozilla browser was changed in that area, thats probably worth another try02:06
ograits a major security breakage02:06
ogranot minor02:06
DanielCWhat is it?02:07
ograyou can inject code 02:07
ograit wont be critical in a cybercafe i guess, but well02:07
DanielCIf I could make it work with the security breakage I'll have a discussion with my employer.02:08
ograsince its also not working with upstreams firefox, you will likely have to change ff soucrecode and recompile it to even change it ...02:08
DanielCFor a cyber cafe it really shouldn't matter...02:08
ograyou surely dont want that02:08
DanielCNo, I draw the line at recompiling firefox :)02:08
ograyeah02:08
ograeven on our fastest machines in the datacenter compiling it takes several hours02:09
ogratry with mozilla-browser as a last resort02:09
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ogranooo02:10
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ograthere is a package02:10
DanielC?02:10
DanielCok02:10
ogrause the package from universe02:10
ograor was it main ?02:10
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ograuniverse :)02:11
=== DanielC runs "aptitude install mozilla-browser"
DanielCHow do you find out if a package is on main or universe?02:11
DanielCCan aptitude tell you that?02:11
ograapt-cache madison <package>02:11
ogradunno about aptitude since i know nobody who uses it02:11
DanielCI use aptitude :)02:12
DanielCOk, I see it with apt-cache. Thanks.02:12
ograyeah, i see02:12
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coz_morning all02:14
coz_does anyone here know of a link that lists the locations within the US where edubuntu has already been implemented,  what the systems set up for each location required as well as the "switch over" reqirememnts were..ie.. if installed in school, what requirements were needed to be met in terms of software according to state requirements02:20
DanielCogra: mozilla is the same: running with the LD_PRELOAD line Flash freezes, running stand-alone Flash runs (without sound), with the plain esddsp --server line Flash runs (without sound). So it's the same as Firefox.02:20
ograhmm02:21
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ogracoz_, there is no such list, but you could ask on the edubuntu-users mailinglist02:21
DanielCSo I'll talk to iwj later.02:21
ograyep02:21
coz_orthanks02:21
ograi see no other solution atm02:21
coz_ogra, `thanks02:21
ogracoz_, youre welcome :)02:22
DanielCcoz_: "switch over" might be too ambitious.02:22
DanielCcoz_: Most schools that implement Edubuntu will use it as a complement to their existing system.02:22
coz_DanielC, that was one fo the things i was curious about02:22
DanielCThere's too much educational software that won't run on Linux. And sound support on thing clients is spotty at best.02:23
ograDanielC, well, there are some that switch over from k12ltsp :)02:23
DanielCcoz_: ok :)  Fully migrations will likely be unexistent.02:23
coz_DanielC, yeah that was my concern abut this02:23
ograthats not true02:23
DanielCogra: Do you know of any school that is running only Linux thin clients?02:23
ograas i said i know some schools that switched from being k12ltsp to edubuntu02:24
DanielCBut do they not also have non-Linux boxes?02:24
coz_orga where are these located02:24
ograsure, in the use eastcoast ... jelkner, flint and kjcole run some installs at schools02:24
ogras/use/US/02:24
coz_orga what bout libraries 02:24
ograkjcole and jelkner run libraries on edubuntu since breezy already02:25
ogranot many though, three or four each02:25
ograthey both maintain several schools and public libs02:25
DanielCFrom what I can tell, ltsp is a long way off from being a full solution for a school. It only looks viable as part of a larger system (e.g. you could have two labs, one ltsp and one windows).02:25
coz_so is this being implemented ini third world countried02:25
coz_countried02:26
coz_damn countries02:26
DanielCLibraries are a much simpler setup than schools.02:26
ograDanielC, the ltsp.org guys *live* from ltsp installs ...02:26
DanielCltsp should work well for a library.02:26
coz_DanielC, yes because of state requirements for software02:26
ograthere is a pretty big community 02:26
DanielCogra: I'm sure that's true. But that doesn't make it a full solution for a school.02:27
ograDanielC, plenty of schools would disagree02:27
ogra:)02:27
DanielCcoz_: Truth be told, Linux needs software for schools that doesn't exist yet. That's why there is work on SchoolTool and the like.02:27
DanielCogra: I'd be interested in learning more about those schools, honestly.02:27
coz_I used to teach elementary special Ed for a number of years, edubuntu was pretty exciting to me the first time I ran it02:27
coz_I ws hoping that some schools may have adopted it already02:28
DanielCIf we can make Edubuntu a full solution for schools we'll jump at that opportunity.02:28
ograDanielC, you should talk to highvoltage then, TSF runs nearly all schools they are responsible for on ltsp02:28
DanielCMe and my boss are very strong open source advocates, but it has to work.02:28
coz_DanielC, I think it is possible for "in class" learning02:28
DanielCogra: Ok, I'll ask him.02:28
ograDanielC, and iirc that are ~14002:28
DanielCogra: 140 schools that use nothing but Linux?02:29
ograDanielC, its really a question what you expect and where you are located02:29
ograDanielC, yes02:29
coz_mm02:29
DanielCogra: I'm located in the UK. Yes, it's about what you expect. Schools expect several software applications that Linux doesn't have and they expect sound :)02:30
ograsouthamerican, african and asian schools are more likely to run linux based solutions for example 02:30
DanielCyes02:30
DanielCtrue that.02:30
DanielCWhen I say "schools" I'm certainly thinking from a UK POV.02:30
coz_DanielC, sound? I found no problem with sound..02:30
ograskolelinux runs ~400 schools on linux solutions (many mixed solutions among them though)02:30
DanielCcoz_: Have you got Firefox to play sound on thin clients?02:30
coz_DanielC,  no I haven't tried yet02:31
DanielCogra: As far as I can see, mixed solutions are all we can reasonably hope for here for now.02:31
ografirefox plays sound fine on thin clients ;) flash doesnt02:31
DanielCcoz_: exactly.02:31
DanielCwell...02:31
DanielCFlash then.02:31
coz_org ok that will probably change next year02:32
ograits neither a prob of ff nor of linux, its a prob of macromedia not opening the source and relying on an soundsystem thats obsolete since 5 years so that can be fixed02:32
ogras/can/ant/02:33
ogragrr02:33
ogras/can/cant/02:33
DanielC:(02:33
coz_change of subject ... I post a bit of artwork on the forums some of wich is for edubuntu... who are the people responsible for  artwork in edubuntu/02:34
ograwe have an art team, look at launchpad.net02:34
coz_ok02:35
coz_thanks for all the information guys .. having taught for some years i really like the idea of edubuntu so I will probably be back every so often to ask questions ... thanks again02:36
Rondomtoo bad that many teachers don't have the abilities to run linux in school02:46
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DanielCRondom: That may be true, but it's not what I was thinking of just now. It's not the teacher's fault if Linux doesn't have an application for something they need.02:52
RondomDanielC: yeah, but my informatics teacher is glad that his arktur-server works02:53
Rondomyou know arktur?02:53
Rondomit's a slackware based distro for school servers02:53
Rondomit's pretty old and unmaintained still has php 3 on it....02:54
RondomI told him about edubuntu and he didn't want to change a running system02:54
DanielCRondom: Ok. I don't understand how this is an example of a teacher not knowing how to use Linux.02:54
DanielCIf he can manage slackware, he's probably reasonably competent.02:55
RondomWell, I actually don't want to put edubuntu on the machines, because I don't want to maintain the whole stuff and I doubt anyone will continue doing so after I leave school02:55
RondomDanielC: he can't manage slackware02:56
Rondomhe reads tutorials asks in forums02:56
Rondomasks=asked02:56
Rondomreads=read :-/02:56
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DanielCyay!03:00
ograadd the following to the top of /usr/bin/firefox03:01
ograif [ ! -e /tmp/.esd/socket ] ; then03:01
ogra/bin/mkdir /tmp/.esd03:01
ogra/bin/touch /tmp/.esd/socket03:01
ografi 03:01
ogra(add the right indedation there)03:01
RondomDanielC: you said anything after my last msg?03:01
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ogranow every start of ff will check for it and create it if it doesnt exist03:02
DanielCRondom: nope03:02
Rondomok03:02
DanielCogra: yes, I know bash :)03:02
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ograbut it will be overwritten on firefox upgrades03:03
ograso dont forget about that if you have security upgrades :)03:03
DanielCYeah... I'll make a note of this.03:03
DanielCThanks for the help!!03:03
ograalso note down the libesd.so.1 link for future reference ;)03:04
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DanielCok03:04
DanielCI'll add this to my tips page.03:04
ogracool :)03:05
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topoori have a compaq deskpro as ltsp client with a on borad cirrus graphic card i get only a screen resolution of 640/48003:11
topooriput in lts.conf XSERVER         = cirrus  X_MODE_0        = 800x600         X_HORZSYNC      = 30-92  X_VERTREFRESH   = 50-16003:13
topoorbut resolution is still 6400/480 any idea?03:14
rodarvusgood morning03:15
DanielCogra: Did you say yesterday that X_MODE was ignored? Might this be topoor's problem?03:19
topoorDanielC: i read it too X_MODE_0 through X_MODE_2 Not yet implemented but how to change the resolution?03:23
DanielCtopoor: I wish I knew...03:24
DanielCSomeone here ought to know.03:24
DanielCThis is definitely the right place to ask. It's just a bit quiet right now.03:24
DanielCMaybe because a lot of people are preparing to leave on a trip to Paris for an Ubuntu meeting.03:25
topoori solve it: i put  X_COLOR_DEPTH   = 8 and now i get 800X600 strange for me but ... 03:26
topoorit works03:26
DanielCcool03:27
DanielCI'll take a note of that.03:27
topoorstrange and stranger X_COLOR_DEPTH Not yet implemented https://wiki.edubuntu.com/EdubuntuLtsConfParams03:28
DanielCweird...03:28
topoori am testing with X_COLOR_DEPTH   = 16 wait a bit...03:32
topoorX_COLOR_DEPTH   = 16 it goes back to 6400x480 refresh rate is 85 hz (from 60 to 85 hz)03:38
DanielCOk. So it's the color depth then.03:39
DanielCMight be a limitation in the video card (e.g. too little video memory)03:39
topoorhow can i find out the video memory fo my graphic card?03:42
DanielCGood question... I'm not sure.03:42
DanielCIf it's anything remotely new then it's not the card.03:42
DanielCBut if we're talking of a 486 computer, then it might be.03:42
topoori ty03:43
DanielCLast time I had to worry about video card memory I was running a 486 computer and pentiums were the latest thing.03:43
topoori try to go to /optltsp/i386/proc but the directory is empty, where are the proc of the clients?03:44
DanielCFirst create a root account for the clients so you can login locally.03:44
DanielCYou won't see it in /opt/ltsp03:44
DanielCRun: sudo chroot /opt/ltsp/i386 passwd03:45
DanielCCreate a root password.03:45
DanielCThen on the client press ctrl+alt+f1, login to a terminal and take a look at /proc03:45
DanielCI don't know what to look for in /proc though...03:47
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AstroKingI have a question about the money in Tux4Kids Maths.  It's in Euros.  Our school is in the USA, so we would need it in dollars for the students.  Is there a way to change the program to US currency?03:51
AstroKingHello?  Anyone here?03:53
DanielChello03:57
DanielCI don't know.03:57
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AstroKingThis is the one thing that I keep running into when I propose switching our school to edubuntu.  Administration won't go for it because of the Euro issue.03:58
DanielCWhat's the command-line program? tuxmath?03:58
DanielCYup...03:59
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AstroKingI can't remember right now - I'm on a Windows machine at the moment and don't have access to my edubuntu system.03:59
DanielCI don't see the Euro symbols. Where are they?04:00
AstroKingIn TuxMaths it has a lesson on coins and they are Euro coins - not US currency.  Let me start up my live cd on this other computer and see if I can find it real quick.04:01
DanielCAre you sure this is tuxmath we're talking about?04:01
DanielCMight that be Gcompris?04:01
AstroKingMy apologies - I think that was the program.  Sorry, I got confused.04:02
DanielCThe images are in /usr/share/gcompris/boards/money/04:02
AstroKingOk, let me look04:03
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DanielCI'm not aware of any package that has pictures of US money, but if you can find those pictures (e.g. use a digital camera) you could replace the Euros by the dollars.04:06
AstroKingYeah, well now that I know the location (I'm a linux newbie), I can probably Google for images of US coins.  Thanks - that helps a lot.04:07
DanielCIf you need help with that just come back here and I'll help.04:08
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topoorDanielC: thanks u very much now i can take a look to the log of the clients04:15
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highvoltageLaser_away: ping05:51
highvoltageogra_: pinr05:51
highvoltageogra: ping05:51
ograhighvoltage, ponr05:51
ograhighvoltage, pong05:51
DanielCheh05:51
highvoltageogra: lol! ogra, my cell phone number changed, it's +2778 108 258805:51
ograoki, will note it05:51
ograthnks05:51
highvoltagejust in case you get a call from a strange number tomorrow :)05:51
ograheh05:52
highvoltagewhen are you leaving? my flight is quite late, 11:45PM tonight05:52
ograi just looked into the routeplanner, apprently i was wrong and its only 450km from here 05:53
DanielChighvoltage: Are you located in the UK?05:53
ograso only a 3-4h drive05:53
ograso i'll drive tomorrow morning05:53
DanielCogra: Are you in Saarbrucken?05:54
ogranope05:54
ograi'm in the middle of nowhere near the belgian border05:54
ograbut i'm about to move to the middle of the country (right after paris)05:54
DanielCMy boss says he met an Oliver from Ubuntu in Saarbrucken last year, with a guy called Manfred. It was about an EU project for a sever or something like that.05:54
ograyeah05:55
ograthat was me05:55
DanielCok :)  My employer is Ian Lynch, if you remeber the name.05:55
ograhe's the openoffice advocate, right ? 05:55
DanielCyes05:55
ograyeah, i remember him05:55
DanielCok :)05:55
ograthat meeting was a bit pointless :)05:56
DanielCSo it seems...05:56
DanielCOh well, such is life.05:56
highvoltageDanielC: i'm in south africa05:56
ograyeah05:56
ograwell, it wasnt pointless since i met ian :) 05:56
DanielC:)05:56
ograsend him greetings05:57
DanielCwill do.05:57
ogra:)05:57
DanielCIan's attitude is that you never know which one of these meetings will turn into something, so you just give it a go and eventually something will turn out.05:58
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ograyeah, but the problem was that they had no idea what they wanted05:58
ograit could have been a good meeting if that would have been clear from the beginning05:59
ogratoo many different interests ...05:59
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flintGood morining05:59
highvoltagemorning mr flint!06:00
DanielCogra: Yeah, that's what Ian says too.06:00
DanielCflint: morning06:00
flintAnyone got any idea how to get around the Edubuntu ltsp login bug?06:00
ograhey flint !06:00
DanielCflint: If it's morning for you I take it you are in the US/Canada west coast?06:00
ograflint, there is no login bug, only users that didnt read the docs :P 06:00
ograflint, run: sudo ltsp-update-sshkeys 06:00
flintOgra highvoltage I beat the dhcp bug.  The trick is to configure the card from the gui!!!06:01
ograflint, everytime you change ip settings for the ltsp part in edubuntu ;)06:01
flintthanks Ollie!!!!!06:01
ogra;)06:01
flintI swear a mighty oath, this looking over Jonathan's stuff is good for me!06:01
flintHow is Paris, you damn swains?06:02
ograyeah, its good for everyone :)06:02
ograhmm06:02
ograhighvoltage, do you have set something up that kicks people for the term swains ?06:02
ogra*g*06:02
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ogralol06:03
ograflint, *giggle*06:03
ograwhat did you do ?06:03
flintogra with this last sudo ltsp-update-sshkeys working (and it did!!!) I will forge on with this conference in Main USA, eat lobster and think of good expresso and cigars...06:04
highvoltageogra: *g*06:04
ograflint, cool06:04
ograflint, i'm not in paris yet btw06:04
ograflint, mdz just arrived there though06:04
highvoltageflint: we're not in paris yet, so we'll find out tomorrow06:04
flintanyway you two keep that teamspeak thing in front of folks I may want to try to link our conferences if you want...06:05
ograyeah06:05
highvoltagei'm just looking on th radisson sas site to try to figure out if they have a map available06:05
flintah give my best to the wild zimmerman...06:05
ograflint, he's in #ubuntu-devel :)06:05
DanielCDo you guys get some time to travel around Paris? Or is it all work?06:05
highvoltagezimmerman? wild?06:05
ograhighvoltage, yes, he *can* be wild :)06:05
highvoltageheh. ok :)06:06
flinthighvoltage: Jonathan, the problem is it will be in French!  06:06
highvoltagei thought it's just the elmo you find in the wild.06:06
flintogra trust me I can get him wild, I just use FITS!06:06
ograDanielC, canonical pays flights and the hotel, since you can pick the time for the flights yourself, you can just stay a week longer and move to a cheaper hotel ...06:06
flintask the man about Flint Induced Tourettes Syndrome... everyone shold have it...06:07
highvoltageflint: i get an idea there will be little time for anything but work, but we'll have tomorrow evening and saturday morning, although i get a feeling that might be busy too. i haven't seen the schedule yet.06:07
DanielCogra: Oh, that's nice of them.06:07
ograflint, so try how FITS works out via teamspeak ;)06:07
flintogra ah remote FITS 06:07
ograDanielC, well, you'd have to pay the second hotel youerself indeed06:07
highvoltageare they compatible?06:07
DanielCogra: Well, if you are coming from South Africa that's still a very nice deal.06:08
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ograhe should really stop playing with his network settings while chatting :)06:08
ograDanielC, true06:08
flintgotta go my braves - be vERY smart!06:08
ograciao flint 06:08
flintand Thanks!!!06:08
flintsksk06:08
ograDanielC, i used that opportunity in sydney :)06:08
DanielCcool06:08
DanielCI've never been to Australia.06:09
ograwe flew a week earlier06:09
DanielCI want to go some day.06:09
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ograenjoy06:10
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pygihey HedgeMage 08:30
HedgeMagehiya pygi 08:31
pygiwhat you wanted to talk about related to  cookbook?08:31
pygiI can steal some time to talk08:32
HedgeMageI wanted to put together some sort of chapter spec08:32
pygihm, I saw you already wrote something?08:32
HedgeMageI put the overall outline together...08:33
HedgeMageI'm talking about something stating how an individual chapter should be formatted, what individual items need to be there, etc.08:33
pygiright, so chapters layout08:33
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pygihm, that will take some time08:36
pygiI shall try to get some time to assemble something08:36
HedgeMageI figure once we hack out the ideas, I could put together some sort of docbook template for folks to use.08:36
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DanielCYou know what would be cool? If we could setup per-client auto-login through lts.conf08:37
DanielCSo, when I boot the first client it auto logs in as "user01" and the second client auto logs in as "user02" etc.08:38
DanielCSo I can tell the teacher that all they do is turn the client on and it "just works".08:39
DanielCIs this possible at all?08:39
ograDanielC, https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+spec/ltsp-login-and-session-handling08:42
ograwe'll discuss it in paris08:43
DanielC*click*08:43
DanielCGood man :)08:43
DanielCogra: The specification is empty :)08:45
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ograDanielC, sure, we're meeting in paris to write it08:49
DanielCah08:50
DanielCI look forward to reading the spec later.08:50
DanielCBut do you at least have a couple of use cases?08:51
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HedgeMage hi Seveas 08:56
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Seveashi09:06
cbx33hey Seveas 09:08
cbx33whois mvo09:09
cbx33whoops09:09
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kbrookscbx33: AHA10:09
kbrookscbx33: fou nd ya10:09
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cbx33hi kbrooks 10:30
kbrookswhats up?10:30
cbx33i think it's solved it now :p10:32
cbx33so, how could I improve my code?10:32
kbrookswhat's solved now10:34
cbx33hehe10:35
cbx33another python app problem10:35
kbrookscbx33: oh k10:35
kbrookscan we talk in #gisomount?10:35
cbx33sure10:35
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