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Cometehi09:36
bimberi!hi | Comete10:54
ubottuComete: Hi! Welcome to #edubuntu!10:54
jodgiHi people!12:51
jodgiany LTSP admins on today?12:54
joebakerIs there a problem with tftpd-hpa that is keeping ltsp from working besides the bug report I filed?17:38
ograthere are no known problems with tftpd-hp, no18:40
ograit runs fine for many many users out there, whats your prob ?18:41
aarmelvin_Linux?20:15
aarmelvin_Linuxcan we set up edubuntu to control all students.....like locking Desktop Screens and things like that..20:17
aarmelvin_Linuxsince i am Lecturer i need some details regarding this20:17
stgraberhave a look at iTalc20:18
stgraberit's included with 8.0420:18
aarmelvin_Linuxsince we are going to launch Netop software (a commercial software) to monitoring students laptop screen....and to control them..20:19
aarmelvin_Linuxok20:19
aarmelvin_Linuxthanks...20:19
aarmelvin_Linuxi will try20:19
aarmelvin_Linuxcan i know some features of that Utility20:19
stgraberiTalc is an opensource classroom management that can be used for both Linux and Windows. I did the integration with Ubuntu for Hardy20:19
aarmelvin_Linuxthanks a lot..20:20
stgraberdemo mode (fullscreen/windowed), screen locking, remote control, logout, shutdown, reboot, wakeup (if you have wake-on-lan), text message to the student20:20
stgraberhttp://italc.sourceforge.net is the upstream website20:20
stgraberpackages in Ubuntu are italc-client (installed with Edubuntu) and italc-master20:21
aarmelvin_Linuxthats cool...20:21
aarmelvin_Linuxok20:21
stgraberthe connection between the master and the clients is done using some SSL so you'll need to copy keys from the master computer to the clients (the public key) so you can then add them and control them20:21
stgraber(that's something we'd like to make easier in the future)20:22
Lnsstgraber, i was just looking at italc - is this pretty stable in hardy?20:22
stgraberwe still have some crashes with the integrated X11VNC server, I have built some debuging packages yesterday and hope to have time debuging that soon20:23
stgraberfor normal use it should work fine20:23
stgraberthe new release (that'll probably be backported to hardy) also has avahi so you get an auto-generated classroom with computers near you20:24
stgraberthe x11vnc crash seems to happen more often when using computers with high resolutions (> 1024x768) and stressing the VNC (compiz effects, video). Other than that it's stable20:24
Lnshmm...1024x768 is pretty common for me20:33
Lnsthat sounds nice though... so it's going to replace thin-client-manager eventually?20:35
stgraberindeed20:37
stgrabertcm is no longer maintained20:37
Lnsgotcha20:39
aarmelvin_Linuxcan we restrict students from installing softwares thro Synaptic Package manager.....since as far as Ubuntu is concerned, he/she can install softwares with his/her login passwd20:44
aarmelvin_Linuxi mean normal user passwd without root passwd20:45
Lnsaarmelvin_Linux, pretty sure you have to be in the 'admin' group to do that20:46
LnsFirst created user has that, but subsequent users don't20:46
aarmelvin_Linuxoh.....thats a good idea....thanks..20:46
Lnsnp20:47

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