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CirceI have been impressed with everything so far!00:07
* lns just wanted to see if there was a central issue regarding gutsy -> hardy upgrade and "Internal Error - Failed to initialize HAL", plus "Gnome-settings-daemon" crashes upon login (logging in via VNC, but don't think that should matter.. ? )00:29
CyndreSimple question - does anyone have a torrent link for the desktop cd, or am I faced to suffer 30 kb/s download speeds?02:04
Circetorrent.ubuntu.com02:06
Circethere is some more to the address.02:07
CirceI usually google "ubuntu torrents"02:07
Circethe quickest method is get the desktop ubuntu torrent and the edubuntu add on torrent.02:08
Circehere is the address for all the torrents... torrent.ubuntu.com/6969/02:10
CirceI had 1mb/s on both the desktop distro and the addon cd02:11
Cyndrety circe, setting up a spare comp for the kids02:12
Circesame here, I am a school teacher setting up donated hardware in my classroom. Using edubuntu because for the kids!02:14
CyndreCircle: dual xeon 1.7 ghz 2 gigs of ram - should run nice?02:16
CyndreCircle: Was just getting 1.5 Mb/s then it dropped to a third02:17
Circeyeah def. my edubuntu install is dual core 1.6 ghz with 1 gig of ram. Runs like a charm. Full desktop effects.02:19
Circeit flucuated for me as well.02:19
Circethe add on cd took longer than the regular distro. I think because more people are seeding the distro then the add on.02:20
CyndreCirce: Not as nice as yours, (old school dual cpu xeon)02:20
CyndreCirce: got the add on alread02:20
Circemine is a cheapo Acer that could not run Vista. I wiped the drive and installed Ubuntu. Can't believe how much more the computer can do now!02:22
Circenice.  Which ubuntu torrent did you choose?02:23
CyndreDesktop, 8.0402:23
Circethe quickest for me was the i386 desktop cd 8.04. I must of had 120 seeders.02:24
Circewhat torrent client are you using?02:24
CirceI use transmission.02:26
CirceI find it to be lightweight and straight forward.02:26
CirceuTorrent and Azureus are more popular I believe.02:26
Guest3883536hmmm02:28
Guest3883536that was wierd02:28
Guest3883536ahhh - hitting 2 mb/s download right now02:28
Circewhat happened?02:28
Circeit should be done any minute then.02:29
Guest388353630 seconds02:29
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Cyndreyay done02:30
Circewhen I had those speeds I went ahead and snagged the DVD as well. 3 gigs but has some more apps on it.02:30
Circenice02:30
CyndreI can't believe I used to wait 3 days for 700 megs before02:30
CirceLOL. Now you can be done in minutes.02:31
Circeare you installing on a desktop or laptop?02:33
Cyndredesktop02:33
Cyndreso much for that plan :( no blank cd roms - have 100 or so blank dvds dammit02:37
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kwakis there a linux software that is like Adobe Visual COmmunicator or Varasoftware VideoCur07:06
kwakVideo Cue07:06
bimberi!hi07:59
ubottuHi! Welcome to #edubuntu!07:59
RichEdhi ogra ... you around & about & feeling better today ?11:16
stgraberwhat time is today's meeting ?11:19
RichEdstgraber: i'm in a sprint ... so I won't be in the meeting ... you'll need to check with ogra11:21
stgraberisn't ogra at Linuxtag in Berlin ?11:21
ograstgraber, RichEd, i have slight fever and stayed in bed most of the day, feeling a bit better now but surely not in the condition to run meetings15:39
RichEd-2ogra: np ... what time was the meeting meant to be ?15:41
* RichEd-2 is in the commercial sprint all day & into the evening15:42
highvoltageomg, what happened to RichEd-1!? has he been replaced?15:48
johnnyno. incremented15:49
johnnyhe's +1 good now15:49
highvoltageah, shew. that's fine then.15:51
* RichEd-2 the bot marvels at the wit & wisdom of the humanoids15:57
RichEd-2and ... RichEd-2 woul,16:17
RichEd-2oops16:17
RichEd-2and ... RichEd-2 would in fact by RichEd-1 decremented no ?16:18
OculusAquilaehi16:28
OculusAquilaeHow ist the KDE-Version of Edubuntu going?16:28
RichEd-2OculusAquilae:  ? what do you mean by that ?16:46
OculusAquilaeRichEd-2: Are storage devices on the thin clients shown in the dolphin device list?16:48
RichEd-2if you are using KDE, then you would be able to insert add/remove any or all of the education applications onto your system16:49
OculusAquilaeIn 7.10 they are only mounted to /media/$USER16:49
OculusAquilaeLTSP16:49
OculusAquilaeis the problem16:49
ograOculusAquilae, not until KDE gets fixed to monitor /media properly16:53
OculusAquilaeogra: ???16:54
ograthere are hacks floating around to put links on your desktop while thats a very nasty way of doing it and wouldnt be accepted as upstream default, you can use it as workaround16:54
OculusAquilaeogra: kde displays file systems depending on hal I think16:54
ograOculusAquilae, ltspfs doesnt use hal16:54
ograit relies on the desktop to monitor /media16:54
ograwhich xfce and gnome do well16:55
OculusAquilaeogra: on gnome there are hacks16:55
RichEd-2you'd need to check with ogra or riddel on that level of detail16:55
ograRichEd, its simply that KDE is the only desktop not monitoring that dir ...16:56
OculusAquilaeogra: Isn't gnome using such a ubuntu-specific hack itself16:57
ograno16:57
ogragnome uses gvfs and did use gnome-vfs before16:58
ograwhich both simply use inotify of teh kernel for monitoring /media16:58
OculusAquilaeogra: ok16:58
OculusAquilaeogra: and there is no possibility to let it be done by kde like this?16:59
ograanyway, i think debian added an lts.conf option, and the link code (just saw that there) i'll see that we can get it into 8.1016:59
ograwell, the KDE backend would have to do the same but as i was told it acts on an abstract layer way abouve what gnome-vfs or gvfs do17:00
ograso thats apparently not easily possible17:00
OculusAquilaeogra: so, you suppose to choose another distro?17:00
ogramy idea was to rewrite ltspfs to use faked hal devices, but thats still in its early stages and i dont have much time anymore for ltsp development at all17:01
ograOculusAquilae, ???17:01
ograwhat would another distro change here ?17:01
OculusAquilaeogra: perhaps they solved this problem17:01
ograthey wont have a different KDE and still the same ltsp17:01
OculusAquilaeI could at least try17:01
OculusAquilaeogra: you said that debian had something like this17:02
ograsure try what you like, fedora has just released a very basic implementation of ltsp with fc9 (their first attempt)17:02
OculusAquilaewould it be possible to do this on debian17:02
ogradebian has the same LTSP and KDE packages17:02
ograbut they added the five line hack to add links on user desktops17:03
OculusAquilaeok17:03
ograits a trivial handfull of python code you can add to ltspfsmounter17:03
ogra(i guess yu can even do it in one line if you hardcode it)17:03
OculusAquilaewhy not doing this for ubuntu too?17:03
OculusAquilaeThe problem is that I don't want to provide security updates myself17:04
ograbecause we dont add lnks to devices on desktops if there is a volume management backend doing that better ... i like to not hack around stuff but fix it17:04
ogrause dpkg-divert on /usr/sbin/ltspfsmounter to prevent your thing from being overwritten17:05
ograanyway, as i said we'll add hist code for the lts.conf option to the 8.10 ltspfs17:05
OculusAquilaeogra: thanks for the information17:05
OculusAquilaeogra: is it in debian stable?17:06
ograoh, and indeed you need debian unstable for these hacks ... that wont get you into the problem of caring for security updates :P17:06
ograits pretty new hackish code17:06
OculusAquilaeunstable, hm17:06
OculusAquilaeogra: do you know if it is in ltsp-server ?17:08
ograno17:08
ograit is in ltspfs17:08
OculusAquilaethanks17:09
ograhttp://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ltsp-upstream/ltspfs/ltspfs-trunk/annotate/vagrant%40freegeek.org-20080302225903-rmrn56huy46yyuwf?start_revid=wtogami%40redhat.com-20080428224302-dkxj5o7wkmjvmh50&file_id=kdedesktopicons-20080302225737-q6d8ttvp6y7nfi4a-217:09
ograthats the code17:09
OculusAquilaethanks17:10
OculusAquilaeogra: This code will be executed automatically by ltspfs?17:13
OculusAquilaein /etc/ltspfs/mounter.d ?17:13
ograno idea, i havent used it yet, it smells like you also need support for ltspfs.d or so17:13
ograhttp://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ltsp-upstream/ltspfs/ltspfs-trunk/revision/vagrant%40freegeek.org-20080302080458-7hthsgddljqju2x8?start_revid=wtogami%40redhat.com-20080428224302-dkxj5o7wkmjvmh5017:14
ograseems to be that snippet17:14
ograi'D really just add an ln command to ltspfsmounter17:14
ograits hackish anyway17:14
ogralink on "ltspfsmounter add" rm on "ltspfsmounter remove/cleanup"17:15
ogratwo lines17:15
OculusAquilaehm17:17
OculusAquilaeI'll look at it17:20
ogranote that neither the patch nor just adding links will give you proper device icons17:22
ogratehy are linked folders17:22
OculusAquilaeogra: better than 15 children not finding their cds17:23
ograwell, you could generally put a link to /media/$USER on their deesktops ... a non dynamic one and give it  descriptive name17:25
ogra*a descriptive17:25
OculusAquilaethat's right, we thought about this possibility17:26
ograbest would indeed be if all desktops would use the same way for handling devices :)17:27
ograbut i didnt find any open ear in the KDE community yet17:27
OculusAquilaeogra: why doesn't gnome use the kde way would be a possibility17:28
ograespecially since all devs are busy getting 4.0 into usable shape17:28
ograbecause there are more desktops using the gnome way ... its a matter of amount of changes you hae to do in different places17:28
OculusAquilaeogra: I am using 4.0.417:29
ograthe 4.0 rewrite would have been the perfect opportunity to unify here17:29
OculusAquilaethat could be right17:29
ogramy personal main target is using hal for ltspfs anyway though ... as i said above17:29
ograbut i have approximately 2-3h a week left to work on ltsp which mostly just goes into basic fixes17:30
OculusAquilaeogra: then it would work on kde too?17:30
ograand reimplementing ltspfs will take more17:30
ograwell, then you would see something like that http://people.ubuntu.com/~ogra/ltspfs-hal-root.png17:31
ograwith all devices being added as fake blockdevices in hal17:31
ograthats using a way higher level then the kernel inotify mechanism17:31
ograand afaik KDE listens to hal for its devices17:31
ogra(that might have changed with 4.x as well, the last time i actually touched KDE personally was around 1.2 ... but thats the info i got from KDE folks)17:32
OculusAquilaeok17:33
ogramy persona ocus simply isnt on KDe integration and unless someone from a KDE dev crew steps up to help out we wont solve the prob other than switching to the hal method i think17:34
ogra*personal focus17:34
ogra... or hack around it like with adding links to user desktops which wil get funny if your client just crashed once and the link wasnt removed17:36
ogra(or if the user didnt log out properly etc)17:36
OculusAquilaeright, another problem17:37
OculusAquilaeI think hal would be a good thing to use17:38
ograright, but requires extra time i dont have .... and nobody else is working on that stuff ... debian prefers to add the hacks it seems so we waste manpower on workarounds that would better have been invested in doing the real fix ... but well, you cant tell volunteers where to invest their time :)17:39
ograand its stil better than nothing apparently17:39
OculusAquilaeIsn't it possible to write such a script for ltspfs to broadcast device information via hal17:41
ograwell, thats essentially what my change does ... but it has to happen in the suid binary which needs detailed auditing to not introduce security holes17:42
ograthe screenshot you saw essentially calls hal-add-device with the right parameters from the suid binary of ltspfs (lbmounter)17:43
ograerr lbmount17:43
ograits not easy to get right if you dont want all the code in the suid bit17:43
OculusAquilaehm right17:44
ogralbmount is already 300 lines of C .... i dont want to make it 150017:44
ograese the security team will kill me to have to audit it for every release17:45
ogra*else17:45
OculusAquilae:)17:47
ograwe'll get there eventually :)17:47
ograplans and ideas are there ... its just a matter of time17:47
ogra(and sadly i'm hogged with business stuff since 8.04 which limits my time to work on extra stuff like ltsp, but i'm confident someone will step up to help if i dont make it at some point)17:48
ograRichEd, btw, did you see adams mail ? i really wonder why we talked for days about all these issues, seems he didnt understand that 8.04 is done and over17:50
RichEdogra: let me check now ... been in meetings all day]17:50
ograah17:51
ograi answered already but t seems to me that he didnt understand much of what we discussed about and agreed on17:51
OculusAquilaeogra: Thanks that you helped me to understand the situation. I wrote an email to our deciders with this information.19:43
monteslu_did something with jetpipe change recently that requires authentication or anything like that?20:16
monteslu_my lts.conf is bad20:20
monteslu_isn't # the comment character?20:20
monteslu_I'm getting a syntax error on  a commented line20:21
johnnydon't think you can have comments inside the [default]20:33
johnnyor in any other []20:33
johnnyonly at the top perhaps20:33
monteslu_think that's right20:34
monteslu_took out the comments on individual clients and its good now20:34
monteslu_should file that as a bug :)20:34
monteslu_thanks20:34
moquistogra: ping20:39
monteslumoquist, you still doing smbldap things?21:20
monteslusummer's coming and its time for me to rebuild my smbldap server :)21:20
monteslufedora 5 worked well, but its four versions old now21:21
moquisthi there21:21
moquistyep, I'll get hardy working before the summer is out21:21
montesluwould like to base it on centos or ubuntu lts this time21:21
monteslusweet21:21
moquistBut seriously, if you don't have a reason to upgrade your LDAP server, don't.21:21
montesluwell, its a little flaky21:21
monteslui've had to do database recovers on just about every reboot21:22
moquistHardy *may* be better, then.21:22
moquistMaybe.21:22
monteslucentos 5 is my current favorite in server OS's, but whatever you want to build a script for works for me :)21:22
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