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LaserJockI'd talk to #ltsp though perhaps00:00
LnsSvenstaro: what are the most commonly used apps in the network?  What are your server specs?00:01
SvenstaroDepending on the lesson, the clients will do research on the web, watch youtube videos, watch educational videos, compile Lazarus applications, create documents in openoffice.00:02
SvenstaroServer specs are roughly 2x2.6ghz xeon (gives me 8 cores), 16GB RAM, 750GB*3 in Raid1, 1Gbit*2 NICs.00:03
LnsSvenstaro: you should have no issues with that i think00:10
Lnsthe only thing i'd watch out for is the streaming video, which is hard to deal with when lots of people are doing it at the same time00:10
Lnsmight want to use localapps for that portion, otherwise you're way over spec (imho).00:10
SvenstaroLns, what would you use for 50 clients to match the demands that I have listed earlier?00:11
LnsSvenstaro: I'd also look into Ethernet bonding (check out http://www.howtoforge.com/network_bonding_ubuntu_6.10 ) to handle the network load00:11
SvenstaroLns, I was planning on doing that.00:11
Lnsyou should be fine.00:11
LnsI can't say what i'd use, but I can tell you that for 35 clients, i'm using a 2x dualcore xeon 1.6GHz system w/8GB RAM, and it works fine.00:12
Lnsthe only time it chokes is when people are doing things graphically intensive like huge flash enabled websites (usually proprietary software related)00:13
LnsWhat are your client specs?00:13
Ahmuck-Jrmine chokes when printing00:13
Ahmuck-Jrthe server doesn't, but every client does00:13
SvenstaroLns, depends, there are two generations for the most part, those using 1.6ghz amd athlons and those using 1.2ghz p4s00:14
LnsSvenstaro: how much ram? that's the biggest factor00:14
LnsAhmuck-Jr: are you doing local printing or network?00:14
SvenstaroLns, 512mb mostly, up to 1GB00:14
LnsSvenstaro: oh that's more than enough =)00:14
Lnsyou shouldn't have an issue00:14
SvenstaroOh sounds nice then, thanks :)00:15
Lnsmake sure your ethernet from the server is performing at 1Gb/sec though00:15
Lns(at least)00:15
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Ahmuck-JrLns: i'm using hplip (current) and printing from the client to a printer hooked to the server01:15
Ahmuck-Jroddly it wasn't doing it this afternoon01:16
Ahmuck-Jrbut i just did an update as well.  i'll have to do some more trouble shooting this evening.  i'm not sure if it happens when someone clicks on the notificaiton dialog01:16
Ahmuck-Jrthe notificaiton dialoge is a bit of a problem.  if the nurse prints out "John Doe's Sickness Progress Report" as a title, hplip spams it to every client.  as a result, everybody knows John Doe is sick01:17
Ahmuck-Jrwith something01:17
sbalneavAhmuck-Jr: This the notification icon, or the cups notification icon?02:36
sbalneavIf it's the cups one, you can just stop that from starting up by rmoving it from th global session.02:37
LaserJocksbalneav: hi02:43
nigrohola05:57
sbalneavMorning all14:52
brettdHi there15:03
LaserJockmorning Edu people16:25
stgrabermoin LaserJock16:26
sbalneavLaserJock: Hey heyh16:41
sbalneavWhen's our bug day?  I made some headway on the Sabayon bug last night. :)16:42
LaserJockoh yeah16:44
LaserJockhow far?16:44
LaserJockI'm lurking in the Desktop Team meeting right now16:44
LaserJockI'm going to poke them about sabayon16:44
LaserJocksince officially Sabayon is a Desktop Team package as well16:44
highvoltagecool16:54
* LaserJock bows to op-highvoltage16:55
highvoltageheh, oops17:02
highvoltageLaserJock: you forgot to bear me gifts!17:02
LaserJockwell, that was kind of a dead end17:08
LaserJocksbalneav: how did last Friday go?17:09
sbalneavGood17:21
sbalneavGot a bit closer to sorting it out17:22
sbalneavI'll be working again on it tonight17:22
LaserJockdo you have any specific patches?17:25
sbalneavNot yet.17:26
sbalneavBunch of tweaks I've done17:26
sbalneavAre you around tonight?17:26
LaserJockyeah, I should mostly be around17:29
sbalneavOK17:29
LaserJockI've got to teach lab this afternoon so might be afk early evening for you17:29
sbalneavI'll ping you17:29
LaserJockI'm just sick of these "OMG, I can't believe Ubuntu has left this for this long!!!!!"17:30
sbalneavThe issue is, of course, it's broken upstream17:34
LaserJocksbalneav: it does keep the bug count down17:39
LaserJockyou pretty much know any new bug report is a dup ;-)17:39
Lns'morning, folks18:02
highvoltage'morning Lns18:02
highvoltagewhat's the good word? :)18:03
Lnshmmmmm....18:03
* Lns thinks18:03
LnsRain.18:03
highvoltagenice.18:03
Lnsha18:03
LnsOur area needs it bad, and we got it last night..thunder, hail and all18:03
LaserJockLns: dude, it's even raining *here*!18:03
LnsLaserJock: !!! wow. Hopefully you've built some sand caves! ;)18:04
highvoltagetoday was the first time in a while that it hasn't rained here. but if it comes back I'll send some your way18:04
LaserJockI try to stay on high ground18:04
Lnshighvoltage: thanks, just use the machines China used during the olympics ;)18:04
highvoltageheh. I always imagined LaserJock's area to be a very desert-like place with very little rain18:04
LaserJockyep18:05
highvoltageLns: oh, I'll just send them via IRC.18:05
Lnshaha18:05
highvoltageI just do my IRC rain dance and whala!18:05
LaserJockDDC SEND Rain18:05
highvoltage\o\ \o/ /o/18:05
LaserJockor is that DCC18:05
LaserJockI never use it so I never remember18:05
highvoltageDirect Client Copy18:05
Lnshahaha18:05
Lnswhat's new with edubuntu??18:06
highvoltageI think LaserJock and sbalneav talked to the desktop team about sabyon18:06
highvoltagebut I haven't been able to follow18:07
Lnsyeah i've seen a few bug report chatters18:07
LaserJockinitially I just got "patches welcome" from seb12818:07
LaserJockbut ember just asked if I had a particular bug # in mind18:07
LaserJockhighvoltage: you feeling up to do some edubuntu.org page cleaning for Jaunty?18:08
LaserJockI've got a piece of paper here where I went through all the edubuntu.org content and made some notes on what needs to get updated/renamed/deleted18:08
highvoltageLaserJock: *very*18:09
LaserJockI don't think I've got time to actually do the changes18:09
highvoltageLaserJock: (really)18:09
LaserJockbut I can throw up my notes somewhere so we have a TODO list18:09
highvoltageLaserJock: can you put that paper up somewhere?18:09
highvoltagethat would be cool18:09
LaserJockyep18:09
highvoltageeven if you send me a jpg of that paper it would be cool18:09
LaserJockthe basic problems look to me like 1)version specific pages with generic names and 2) redundant pages18:10
LaserJockwe had/have 3 different download pages, 2 home pages, and like 2 FAQs18:10
highvoltageLaserJock: in the spirit of community involvement I'll log bugs for all of the changes and post it to the list, then people who want to help with it that already have editing rights can get involved18:10
highvoltage2 home pages?18:10
LaserJockyeah18:11
LaserJockan old home and a new home18:11
LaserJockthe problem is when you make a new node as a draft, work, then change the URL alias to the new page18:11
LaserJockyou're then left with the old node18:11
highvoltageah18:12
LaserJockI was thinking that we should use some sort of naming scheme using the version18:16
LaserJockwe have release pages for the current releases, but it's not always clear what release they belong to18:16
LaserJockand I'd like to have more supporting documentation (application lists, Errata perhaps, etc.) for *each* release18:17
highvoltagegood idea18:17
highvoltageLaserJock: oh, are these the notes you're pasting now?18:18
LaserJockso pehaps we should do something like <release number>: <page>18:18
LaserJockno, these are my general thoughts18:18
LaserJockI just have really quick thoughts to write down18:18
LaserJockI'll throw up a wiki page18:18
highvoltageok thanks18:18
LaserJockI *really* wish we could get rid of most of our wiki.ubuntu.com pages18:18
LaserJockthere's just so much old cruft and organization that it's really unhelpful18:19
highvoltagewhat we could do is put a deletion banner on all of the ones that we think should be deleted18:19
highvoltageand just redirect them all to a "This page has been deleted" page with the reasons and links to the better pages18:20
LaserJockI think we have something ~ 200 wiki pages18:20
highvoltage*gulp* @ https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Home?action=fullsearch&context=180&value=Edubuntu&titlesearch=Titles18:20
LaserJockwe have more "organization" (LP teams, wiki pages, etc.) than most derivatives18:21
LaserJockbut by far the fewest people working and the fewest packages to manage18:21
highvoltageheh, how ironic18:21
highvoltagewow, getting to some of the weird stuff like "EdubuntuAmbassador"18:21
highvoltagenearly forgot about that18:21
highvoltageoosh, and it has my name on it. one of RichEd's old ideas18:22
highvoltagehmm, there's a few wiki pages that may have some value for the website at some point18:23
highvoltagelike https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Edubuntu/Community/Photos18:23
highvoltagewow, meeting records. been a while since we had those18:23
highvoltageLaserJock: yes, 280 Wiki pages!18:24
LaserJockis there some way we can archive a bunch of stuff and start over?18:24
LaserJockI mean seriously, how is this going to help people18:25
highvoltageLaserJock: just skimming over, at leas half the current pages can be deleted forever without doing any harm18:25
highvoltageok maybe not half18:27
highvoltagebut a good amount18:27
LaserJockwell, I wouldn't mind a decent pruning18:27
LaserJockif you do a google search for external sites that don't reference the page18:28
LaserJockand an intra-wiki search and nothing comes up I think we should be able to delete without fear18:28
highvoltageI think it's still a good idea to let them redirect somewhere. probably the edubuntu main page on the wiki, at least18:29
LaserJockI guess18:29
LaserJockit still clutters namespace18:29
highvoltagealthough they'll still... yes... spam the namespace18:29
LaserJockbut at least it's mostly out of the way18:29
LaserJockif they're just internal team pages I don't see why we should feel the need to keep them18:29
highvoltagelast when I talked to the docteam on this (was about 3 years ago probably) they weren't keen at all on deleting wiki pages18:29
LaserJockyeah18:30
highvoltagebut I guess we should come up with a list and take it up with them18:30
LaserJockbut that was mostly before the doc.ubuntu.com/wiki.ubuntu.com split18:30
highvoltageah, true.18:30
LaserJockI don't think the Doc Team cares about wiki.ubuntu.com anymore18:30
LaserJockit's up to the relevant team to care18:30
LaserJockso bottom line:18:30
LaserJock* if it's something an outside person would use to get help it should go either on help.ubuntu.com or edubuntu.org18:31
LaserJock* if it's content internal to the team we should be fairly free to remove/change whatever we need18:31
highvoltageok. can you put that up with the website todo too please?18:32
LaserJockat some point we're shooting ourselves in the foot in order to cater to people who shouldn't be looking at the pages anyway ;-)18:33
highvoltageLaserJock: oh wow, the wiki allows page deletion without admin intervention now18:34
highvoltageLaserJock: that makes things a *lot* easier18:34
highvoltagethe ubuntu cookbook stuff is tricky18:35
highvoltagesome iterations of it has a few chapters that might be good18:35
LaserJockhighvoltage: is that cookbook stuff on wiki.ubuntu.com?18:35
highvoltageLaserJock: hmm, I see some of the cookbook stuff has been moved to help.ubuntu.com18:37
LaserJockyeah18:37
LaserJockwas just going to mention that18:37
highvoltageLaserJock: do you think we still need those links in the wiki?18:37
LaserJockright now I just want like 5 pages on the wiki :-)18:38
highvoltageI don't think you can get it that small18:38
highvoltageI think we certainly want to keep historical meeting minutes18:38
LaserJockmeetings, LP teams/organization, how to get involved, roadmap, TODO18:38
highvoltageand specifications18:38
LaserJocksure, I wasn't counting those18:39
highvoltageok18:39
LaserJockbeyond just archival pages18:39
LaserJockarchives are good and we need to keep them for sure18:39
LaserJockbut people landing at wiki.ubuntu.com/Edubuntu are going to think we're a massive army :-)18:40
highvoltageoh dear18:40
highvoltageLaserJock: do we have a next meeting scheduled btw?18:41
LaserJockno18:41
LaserJockhttps://wiki.ubuntu.com/Edubuntu/Website btw18:42
LaserJockwhat I'd *like* to do is to reflect the StrategyDocument in the wiki structure18:43
LaserJocksomehow18:44
highvoltagethanks18:46
LaserJockhighvoltage: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CategoryEdubuntuCleanup18:47
LaserJockperhaps we should make some more use of ^^18:47
highvoltagekubuntu has put their theme in a bzr branch18:47
LaserJockyep18:47
highvoltageit's ubuntish but has *much* less bugs than our current theme18:47
LaserJockmhm18:48
highvoltageI'll try to get that right before the jaunty release as well18:48
LaserJockcan we take that and tweak the colors?18:48
highvoltageyes18:48
LaserJockbtw18:48
LaserJockI see a CategoryEducation (which seems empty) but no CategoryEdubuntu18:49
LaserJockso perhaps a good first step is to go through the existing wiki18:49
highvoltagehmm, good point18:49
LaserJockand dump pages into one of the 3 categories: cleanup, education (for RichEds type stuff and general education), and edubuntu (our actual working stuff)18:50
highvoltagethat sounds good18:50
LaserJockthen that's our declared set of "Edubuntu" wiki pages18:51
LaserJockanything outside of that is "unofficial"18:51
LaserJockonce everything is in one of those 3 categories we can start weeding18:53
LaserJockhighvoltage: there's also CategoryEducationCleanup18:59
LaserJockso we have a Cleanup category for each of Edubuntu and Education18:59
LaserJockhighvoltage: ok, so we basically don't have an easy way to know what pages are Edubuntu/Education specs19:10
highvoltageLaserJock: yeah I guess that will just take some manua lthought19:10
LaserJockhighvoltage: well, google helped me out19:11
LaserJockhighvoltage: something's odd with moin19:14
LaserJockhighvoltage: when I go to the CategorySpec page it doesn't list any pages19:14
LaserJockbut when I got to specfici specs they have CateogrySpec on them19:15
LaserJockthere must be some threshold beyond which the category page no longer shows you the pages in that category19:15
highvoltageLaserJock: ah. LaserJock I have to go now, will catch up tomorrow19:19
LaserJockhighvoltage: ok, let's keep it rolling ;-)19:19
highvoltageLaserJock: totally!19:20
sbalneavLaserJock: Still around?19:39
LaserJocksbalneav: yeah19:40
sbalneavPackage question.19:40
sbalneavI'm running hardy here at work, and I need to upgrade cups to the one in Intrepid (1.3.9)19:40
sbalneavcan I just download the .debs, and install them?19:40
LaserJockyou can try19:44
LaserJockbut cups has a lot of .debs to it19:45
sbalneavok19:45
LaserJockit could take you a while to get the complete set19:46
LaserJockyou could backport the source package though19:46
LaserJocksbalneav: what were you're magical sabayon output log lines?19:48
sbalneavCrumb, don't have 'em here at work.19:48
LaserJockk, I might have an IRC log of it19:48
sbalneavhow would I backport?  Move the "debian" dir from 1.3.7 to a 1.3.9 dir?19:49
sbalneavand patch?19:49
LaserJockno19:49
LaserJockgrab the intrepid source package off of LP19:49
LaserJockunpack it with dpkg-source -x *.dsc19:49
LaserJockgo into the source dir and run debuild19:50
sbalneavahhh19:50
sbalneavok19:50
sbalneavI could do that19:50
sbalneavhttps://edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cupsys19:52
sbalneavDon't see the intrepid one.19:52
sbalneavI'm stupid.19:53
sbalneavWhat am I missing?19:53
LaserJockhmm, must have changed names or something19:54
LaserJockright19:54
LaserJocksbalneav: it's https://edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cups19:55
LaserJockhighvoltage: turns out a number of pages were using CategoryEdubuntu but there was no category page, I fixed that20:03

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