| davew_ | I wish to alter clients desktops and not servers, so that students only see apps i want them to see - anyone help ? | 01:08 |
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| Ahmuck-Sr | davew_: patience | 01:33 |
| Ahmuck-Sr | davew nfs would restrict them to their own directories. bieng able to customize thier own menu isn't a bad thing | 01:35 |
| davew_ | Hi - Yes and I have got quite a lot of it when I'm in control but unfortunately in this situation it becomes difficult - you see the classes have to carry on | 01:36 |
| Ahmuck-Sr | morever, it sounds like you have windows clients, so you would need a windows lockdown editor | 01:36 |
| Ahmuck-Sr | on the linux side, someone messes up their menu, the menu entry get's deleted and the menu gets reset | 01:37 |
| davew_ | No Windows clients. I just want 30 thin clients who can use open office apps and have access to their own folders | 01:37 |
| Ahmuck-Sr | oh, that's easy ... you have all the control you want | 01:38 |
| Ahmuck-Sr | davew>O.K. Let me tell you the story anyway. Have got a room with 30 pc's running XP and accessing a fedora core server via samba. - so you don't plan to use the windows xp side? | 01:38 |
| davew_ | Oh tell me wise one ! | 01:38 |
| Ahmuck-Sr | what are you concered they might mess up? | 01:38 |
| Ahmuck-Sr | u r running fedora core right? | 01:38 |
| davew_ | The kids will mess anything up. I want to just have a nmenu with the apps I am allowing them to use, together with their home folder icon on the desktop and the inability to change anything on the desktop or put in a memory stick and be able to access it | 01:40 |
| Ahmuck-Sr | davew>I abandoned Open SUSE and went to ubuntu, with all of its promise of easy install if 2 NIC's on board. - now i'm confused. fedora core & ubuntu on the same server with ltsp? | 01:41 |
| Ahmuck-Sr | u have a fedora core server with samba and a ubuntu ltsp server? | 01:41 |
| Ahmuck-Sr | what r u concerned with them messing up? | 01:41 |
| Ahmuck-Sr | help me out here | 01:42 |
| davew_ | Sorry to confuse. We have been using a Fedora server and allowing the XP machines normal access via Samba. I have built a new machine based upon Ubuntu 9.04 | 01:42 |
| davew_ | Thgis machine will be used as the LTSP server. I have managed to get this arrangement running........so the next thing is the control | 01:43 |
| davew_ | Ahmuck-Sr - Is it clear now ? | 01:45 |
| davew_ | Still there - Ahmuck - sr | 01:49 |
| davew_ | Hello - anybody alive ? | 01:52 |
| davew_ | Any of you use Unix ? | 01:54 |
| davew_ | Now Unix was good ! | 01:55 |
| Ahmuck-Sr | still here | 02:01 |
| davew_ | Final call anyone ? | 02:01 |
| Ahmuck-Sr | unix was 36,000 dollars | 02:01 |
| Ahmuck-Sr | for 36,000 dollars i'll fix anything you have a problem with | 02:01 |
| davew_ | The amount of sweat I have dripped over this, it was worth it lol | 02:02 |
| Ahmuck-Sr | :) | 02:02 |
| Ahmuck-Sr | ok, let me do some searching. i'm working on a magazine deadline, but i'll take time to look this up | 02:02 |
| davew_ | That is very kind of you - you O.K. with what I am propsing ? | 02:03 |
| davew_ | proposing | 02:03 |
| davew_ | I shall return tomorrow and leave you in peace - Cheers ! | 02:04 |
| mhall119 | evening | 03:02 |
| mhall119 | http://www.quinncoincorporated.org/2009/08/youth-build-day-pictures/ | 03:13 |
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| termolp | hi | 11:59 |
| termolp | is there somebody here? | 11:59 |
| cprofitt | Can anyone tell me what the "recipes" are mentioned on this page - https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EdubuntuRecipes | 19:36 |
| andv | cprofitt, looks like network-install is the only recipe available atm | 19:44 |
| cprofitt | correct... I am curious what the recipes are... the network-install does not really serve as a good guide | 19:45 |
| cprofitt | Would telling people how to setup iTalc be good? | 19:46 |
| cprofitt | I am looking more for what 'good topics' would be. | 19:49 |
| cprofitt | andv, any idea what other topics would count as a recipe? or perhaps that page should be deleted? | 19:54 |
| cprofitt | andv I decided to redirect that page to the cookbooks | 20:21 |
| andv | cprofitt, don't know who takes care of that page | 21:32 |
| cprofitt | I am part of the team that takes care of it andv via Rocket2DMn and the documentation team | 21:56 |
| andv | cprofitt, oh cool | 22:32 |
| andv | cprofitt, actually I wonder why that page is no more active | 22:32 |
| andv | cprofitt, maybe there was a project about it and now no one cares | 22:32 |
| andv | dunno | 22:32 |
| cprofitt | andv, could be... the cookbook seems more active... so a redirect to that should work | 22:48 |
| andv | yep | 22:48 |
| cprofitt | I transferred over the one 'recipe' | 22:48 |
| andv | cprofitt, if the only remaining recipe was the networkinstall one | 22:49 |
| cprofitt | the main edubuntu site linked to the recipes... not the cook book... | 22:49 |
| andv | just move it to the cookbook and removed that page then | 22:49 |
| cprofitt | so we will have to get that fixed | 22:49 |
| cprofitt | I did that already andv | 22:49 |
| andv | perfect | 22:49 |
| cprofitt | after consulting with a member of the documentation team with more 'seat time' | 22:49 |
| andv | perfect then, you fixed the issue | 22:50 |
| andv | as I said that page might be part of an existing project which got abanduned | 22:51 |
| andv | * abandoned | 22:51 |
| cprofitt | might well be... | 22:54 |
| cprofitt | edubuntu needs to get a bit more 'push' behind it... | 22:54 |
| cprofitt | IT in schools have warmed to Ubuntu at home, but they need guidance to install it at work... | 22:54 |
| cprofitt | and the teachers / students need guides to help them transition | 22:55 |
| andv | cprofitt, fully agreed | 22:58 |
| andv | cprofitt, what's the situation for Edubuntu docs atm= | 22:58 |
| andv | ? | 22:58 |
| cprofitt | andv not really sure... | 23:18 |
| cprofitt | not even sure who is leading the project or what the status is | 23:18 |
| cprofitt | I am involved with this project which may help fill the void - | 23:19 |
| cprofitt | https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Learning | 23:19 |
| cprofitt | but it is not 'just' about edubuntu | 23:19 |
| andv | this project looks great | 23:20 |
| andv | did you have any good result since it has been created' | 23:20 |
| andv | ? | 23:20 |
| andv | cprofitt, anyway highvoltage should be able to tell you what the status of edubuntu-doc | 23:22 |
| cprofitt | nice... I will ask him at some point... | 23:23 |
| cprofitt | I am a systems administrator in a school district... | 23:23 |
| cprofitt | so I am greatly interested in the progress of the project | 23:23 |
| andv | I'm sure you'll get all informations you may need by him | 23:24 |
| cprofitt | andv, the project is still in its infancy... | 23:25 |
| andv | cprofitt, your project is about having 'lessons' on IRC about several topics | 23:25 |
| andv | am I right? | 23:25 |
| cprofitt | so we have not produced a single class yet -- but we are consistently moving toward that goal... | 23:26 |
| cprofitt | we are about - using Moodle / IRC / Wiki / Forums to produce on-line classes | 23:26 |
| cprofitt | they may involved one or all of those | 23:26 |
| cprofitt | I would like to have both self-paced and instructor guided courses | 23:26 |
| andv | what's moodle? | 23:27 |
| andv | how many ppl follow this classrooms atm= | 23:28 |
| cprofitt | Moodle is a web based server that allows for on-line courses | 23:28 |
| cprofitt | http://moodle.org/ | 23:28 |
| cprofitt | http://learn.ufbt.net/ -- is our site at the moment | 23:29 |
| cprofitt | if we get things to take off we will likely end up with the site being hosted by Canonical | 23:29 |
| andv | that's great | 23:30 |
| andv | I've heard a contributor before talking about following MOTU videos | 23:30 |
| andv | are they provided by your course? | 23:30 |
| cprofitt | MOTU does there own thing... | 23:30 |
| cprofitt | but our courses may be intertwined with theirs in the future | 23:31 |
| andv | good luck with this project then | 23:32 |
| andv | It will do good for sure | 23:32 |
| andv | let me know if you have any news from highvoltage | 23:32 |
| andv | cprofitt, I'm leaving, good night | 23:36 |
| cprofitt | good night andv | 23:38 |
| andv | thanks, cya | 23:38 |
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