| ari_stress | morning all :D | 00:38 |
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| daya | hi channel, | 15:50 |
| daya | can i find mo for ldm , in ltsp | 15:51 |
| Mauricio__ | Hi... I have trouble with some thin clients that have a new card that requires the e1000 driver from intel... I have already tested the driver and my question is how to compile that driver into the ltsp chroot... the problem that I have rigth now is that when I try to compile the driver, kernel version on the chroot is different from the server (server has 2.6.22-14-server and ltsp chroot has 2.6.22-14-386), so the make utility complaint that the k | 19:02 |
| Mauricio__ | ernel source is not installed (requests 2.6.22-14-server!) | 19:02 |
| xander | hello peoples , i am new to linux , trying to set up a laptop for my friends daughter who is 12 years old , and they don't want her to be able to view pages like myspace ... i have edubuntu installed and runnin , but having some troubles... am hoping to find someone willing to help me out and walk me through a few basic things on linux :) if anyone can help , please pm me or email ccnhub@gmail.com , thank you very much | 21:31 |
| johnny | i don't think you'll get personal emails for PM | 21:35 |
| johnny | just mention your troubles | 21:35 |
| johnny | or search for them | 21:35 |
| stgraber | xander: so you have problem blocking access to myspace ? | 21:35 |
| xander | yes | 21:39 |
| xander | wlel | 21:39 |
| xander | well | 21:40 |
| xander | im trying to install dan'sguardian | 21:40 |
| xander | but ive only been using linux for a couple hours lol | 21:40 |
| xander | ive been looking around on help pages and forums , but im so new that even the directions don't always make sense hah | 21:41 |
| xander | basically i just want something simple for a noob like me to use that will allow me to either block or grant access to webpages and applications | 21:41 |
| xander | for example , they would like to have her be able to use google talk , but not AIM | 21:43 |
| johnny | tha'ts impossible | 21:43 |
| xander | oh | 21:43 |
| johnny | you can use aim within gmail | 21:43 |
| johnny | in the web page | 21:43 |
| xander | oh | 21:44 |
| johnny | nothing you can block via software on the computer.. windows or linux | 21:44 |
| johnny | unless you block gmail.com too | 21:44 |
| xander | hmm ok | 21:44 |
| xander | well thats good to know ... | 21:44 |
| johnny | i don't think they have "parental controls" | 21:44 |
| johnny | in gmail | 21:44 |
| xander | now , how about restricting access to web pages ? | 21:44 |
| xander | was i correct in trying dansguardian ? | 21:45 |
| johnny | i don't know.. i've never wanted to restrict access to web pages :) | 21:45 |
| johnny | but.. you realize that she'll be able to figure out how to turn it off | 21:45 |
| johnny | if she comes and looks for help :) | 21:45 |
| xander | yes | 21:45 |
| xander | im not worried about that right now | 21:45 |
| xander | i just need to set it so that when she [or her friends] type in an address , it doesn't come up | 21:46 |
| johnny | yes you are | 21:46 |
| johnny | but you're going to have to read more about it on the web i'm guessing | 21:46 |
| johnny | as far as setting it up | 21:46 |
| xander | ive also read some examples of parents setting up only the things they want the kids to use , but that seems like alot of work | 21:47 |
| xander | ok heres one | 21:50 |
| xander | when i try to search for files , i get an error | 21:50 |
| stgraber | dansguardian should do what you want, another way is to set those websites to point to 127.0.0.1 (localhost) | 21:51 |
| stgraber | which will return an error and then not display the page | 21:51 |
| xander | oh cool | 21:51 |
| xander | thats sounds simple enough | 21:51 |
| xander | but where i set that ? | 21:52 |
| stgraber | just : sudo gedit /etc/hosts | 21:52 |
| stgraber | then add lines like : 127.0.0.1 www.myspace.com | 21:52 |
| xander | oh ok | 21:52 |
| xander | let me try | 21:52 |
| stgraber | save, close firefox, reopen firefox and try the website | 21:52 |
| stgraber | just be careful to not remove any lines that were previously there | 21:52 |
| xander | thereis nothing in there | 21:53 |
| xander | its blank | 21:53 |
| johnny | yeah | 21:53 |
| johnny | it's fine | 21:53 |
| stgraber | are you sure you opened the right file ? | 21:53 |
| stgraber | johnny: no it's not, /etc/hosts contains 127.0.0.1 127.0.1.1 and some ipv6 stuff by default | 21:53 |
| johnny | then it must be the wrong file? | 21:53 |
| xander | well ... im not sure about anything atm as i have only used this os for a matter of hours lol | 21:54 |
| stgraber | ok, so let's do that step by step :) | 21:54 |
| xander | and when i try to save , it says could not save , file not found , if that helps | 21:54 |
| stgraber | go to Applications -> Accessories -> Terminal | 21:54 |
| xander | thanks ,,, sorry | 21:54 |
| xander | usually im the one typing step by step | 21:55 |
| xander | hah | 21:55 |
| stgraber | once in the terminal enter : sudo gedit /etc/hosts | 21:55 |
| xander | weird to be on this end , thanks in advance | 21:55 |
| stgraber | it should ask for your password | 21:55 |
| xander | ok did that | 21:55 |
| stgraber | and you have an empty text editor ? weird ? | 21:56 |
| xander | opens a blank document | 21:56 |
| xander | and if i try to save , it says cannot find the file | 21:56 |
| stgraber | what does "ls -lh /etc/hosts" returns ? | 21:56 |
| xander | -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 246 2008-01-03 22:49 /etc/hosts | 21:57 |
| stgraber | ok, so it's 246bytes large ... certainly not empty | 21:58 |
| stgraber | try : sudo nano /etc/hosts | 21:58 |
| xander | k | 21:58 |
| stgraber | maybe you will have more luck opening it in a command line editor :) | 21:58 |
| xander | ok thats opened a file | 21:58 |
| xander | 10 lines | 21:58 |
| stgraber | you should have two lines at the top: one starting with 127.0.0.1 another with 127.0.1.1 right ? | 21:59 |
| xander | 127.0.0.1 localhost | 21:59 |
| xander | 192.168.1.9 edubuntu | 21:59 |
| stgraber | ok, so add for example: 127.0.0.1 www.myspace.com after the edubuntu line | 22:00 |
| xander | ahh ok | 22:00 |
| xander | now just have to figure out how to save lol | 22:01 |
| xander | man | 22:01 |
| stgraber | ctrl+w | 22:01 |
| xander | that does search | 22:02 |
| stgraber | oups :) | 22:02 |
| stgraber | try ctrl+x :) | 22:02 |
| xander | heh ok | 22:02 |
| * stgraber is using too much command line tools :) | 22:02 | |
| stgraber | (and is more of a vi addict) | 22:02 |
| xander | i think that did it let me test | 22:02 |
| johnny | you should try to get it working with gksudo gedit from the cli | 22:02 |
| johnny | gksudo gedit /etc/hosts | 22:02 |
| johnny | so you can use a gui text editor | 22:03 |
| xander | ahh ok | 22:03 |
| xander | cause that didn't work | 22:03 |
| stgraber | try the "gksudo gedit /etc/hosts" thing, but I don't see why it would work and the sudo one wouldn't | 22:04 |
| johnny | or just gksudio gedit and then navigate and open /etc/hosts | 22:05 |
| xander | well it opens the file | 22:05 |
| xander | and i can edit it | 22:05 |
| xander | but its not blocking the page | 22:05 |
| johnny | firefox caches too much | 22:05 |
| johnny | clear your cache | 22:05 |
| xander | oh ok | 22:06 |
| johnny | you might even have to clear your dns cache | 22:06 |
| johnny | i don't recall how to do it, but a reboot would fix it :) | 22:06 |
| xander | ahh ok i restart it then brb | 22:06 |
| xander | nice!!! | 22:09 |
| xander | that works !! | 22:10 |
| xander | wow thats easy | 22:10 |
| xander | haha | 22:10 |
| xander | thanks so much | 22:10 |
| stgraber | np | 22:10 |
| stgraber | btw, that blocks any kind of access to that URL, not only http | 22:11 |
| stgraber | so if you can find the name of the various IM server you want to block, you can block them the same way | 22:11 |
| xander | wow thats handy hah | 22:12 |
| xander | ok one more for today if you don't mind | 22:12 |
| xander | when i am in my file browser ,and i go to go>search for files, and put something in i get the following message | 22:13 |
| xander | the folder contents could not be displayed. the name org.freedesktop.Tracker was not provided by any .service files | 22:14 |
| stgraber | try installing the "tracker" and "tracker-search-tool" packages, that should fix that | 22:15 |
| stgraber | tracker is a file indexing engine | 22:15 |
| xander | ok and i can do that in the synaptic package manager ? | 22:15 |
| stgraber | yes | 22:16 |
| xander | nice ok brb :) | 22:16 |
| stgraber | just search "tracker" in it and you should find the two packages | 22:16 |
| xander | alright | 22:19 |
| xander | thats got it , dam this is very helpful , thank you for your time | 22:20 |
| xander | im sure you will be seeing lots of me in the next few weeks :) | 22:20 |
| johnny | just make sure to read some docs before asking all the questions tho :) | 22:21 |
| xander | oh i did | 22:22 |
| xander | hah i spent hours on the forums , but they don't always address the exact problem ,and this is much more efficient | 22:22 |
| xander | hah | 22:22 |
| johnny | also just regular linux resources | 22:25 |
| johnny | not just ubuntu forums | 22:25 |
| johnny | and the wiki too | 22:25 |
| xander | yeah used that as well thanks | 22:26 |
| xander | searching | 22:27 |
| xander | around for answers can be fun , but i don't get many days off | 22:27 |
| xander | so better to go to the source if i can , thanks | 22:27 |
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