| Nyha | Does Eduuntu have some admin tool for the teacher to view students desktop? | 02:37 |
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| mhall119 | italc | 03:51 |
| mhall119 | but you're not here anymore... | 03:51 |
| Nyha | Does Eduuntu have some admin tool for the teacher to view students desktop? | 13:12 |
| highvoltage | Nyha: there's a tool called iTalc that can be used for that | 13:16 |
| Nyha | I'll look in to that, thanks. | 13:18 |
| Nyha | highvoltage: do you know any others to compare with? | 13:23 |
| highvoltage | Nyha: none that I can think of, but if you hang around some other people may have some more suggestions :) | 13:28 |
| alkisg | Nyha: are your clients normal edubuntu workstations or are they thin clients (LTSP)? | 13:34 |
| alkisg | Anyway, there's also controlaula for normal workstations if you want to compare, but personally I wouldn't even install it because it doesn't get cleanly uninstalled. Some people use it though. | 13:37 |
| alkisg | And there's also http://wiki.tcosproject.org/Utils/TcosMonitor but I haven't tried it | 13:38 |
| alkisg | (i'm not sure if it runs outside of the tcos project) | 13:39 |
| Nyha | alkisg: Im working on building a workstation network and later a thin client, if I can get any here in South Africa ;) | 13:41 |
| alkisg | Nyha: well if you want to try the others go ahead, but your best bet is italc | 13:42 |
| Nyha | alkisg: Shu, I'll have a look at them all. | 13:43 |
| Nyha | alkisg: TcosMontiro use iTalc to remote view... :P | 13:44 |
| alkisg | Nyha: it can use either italc or vnc | 13:45 |
| alkisg | ...and, italc uses libx11vnc :) | 13:45 |
| Nyha | :P | 13:45 |
| alkisg | So they're all vnc inside... | 13:45 |
| Nyha | and is this secure? | 13:45 |
| alkisg | italc is. But of course security comes with a speed/cpu price. | 13:46 |
| alkisg | My only problem with italc is that it's barely maintained anymore... last release was years ago, I hope the advertised 2.0 version will come later on this year or at least in 2011. | 13:46 |
| alkisg | (so if it works for you, fine, if it crashes etc don't expect any fixes soon :)) | 13:47 |
| Nyha | alkisg: ah :P | 13:48 |
| * alkisg had to create his own tools for classroom management - unfortunately not ready for international use yet. | 13:48 | |
| Nyha | Okey? | 13:49 |
| Nyha | Scripted using other apps? | 13:49 |
| alkisg | Yes, but put a lot of pygtk in the mix too. | 13:49 |
| alkisg | +twisted for the networking backend | 13:49 |
| Nyha | okey :P | 13:50 |
| Nyha | So its a gui tool | 13:50 |
| alkisg | http://wiki.ubuntu-gr.org/sch-scripts/screenshots | 13:50 |
| alkisg | In 2 years, if italc 2.0 isn't ready yet, I'll try to push it in the ubuntu repositories :) | 13:51 |
| alkisg | So for now, go for italc and hope it works fine for you :) | 13:51 |
| Nyha | Ah elinika... | 13:51 |
| alkisg | Nyha: ? can you speak greek?! | 13:52 |
| Nyha | ligo | 13:52 |
| alkisg | Wraios!! :) | 13:52 |
| Nyha | I spent two years in tesaloniki and in rodos on rodos.. | 13:53 |
| Nyha | and two mounth in kalamata. | 13:53 |
| alkisg | Wow, you've been all around Greece! | 13:53 |
| Nyha | Ofc. | 13:53 |
| Nyha | :P | 13:54 |
| Nyha | So you use this litle app as a teacher or as a it-cafe admin? | 13:56 |
| alkisg | We use it in almost all of the schools in greece that use ubuntu - as teachers ,yeah | 13:58 |
| Nyha | Cool, it looks like something I'd like to try, Im working on a project in cape town to build Ubuntu-based (ubuntu is Xhosa and Zulu language) computer arias for kids groing up with nothin in the townships.. | 14:01 |
| Nyha | s/arias/areas | 14:01 |
| alkisg | Sounds good. Take a look at LTSP thin+fat clients too, they're much easier to maintain than standalone labs. | 14:03 |
| Nyha | alkisg: Ye, at the moment I have 20 "normal" workstations, so this is what I'll start with, than I'll try to find a way to get thin clients for expanding. :P | 14:04 |
| alkisg | I'm booting all the normal workstations as fat clients, it's much faster this way, and much easier to maintain. | 14:05 |
| alkisg | (we don't have actual thin clients in any greek schools - only old + new PCs used as thin/fat clients) | 14:05 |
| Nyha | I have found one problem so far, the workstations bios does not support network booting.. | 14:07 |
| alkisg | That's not a problem, we put gpxe in the windows or linux boot manager | 14:07 |
| alkisg | Anyway, time to get some work done, bbl. | 14:08 |
| Nyha | alkisg: thanks for the help :P | 14:08 |
| alkisg | np - good luck | 14:08 |
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| KE1HA | Is APT-PROXY the best approach for managing applicaiton versions & policy changes on a school LAN/WAN ? | 22:27 |
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