For my private language school, I have thought about linking cams from the classrooms to the reception area, most likely using webcams connected to diskless clients. I think the ability for a parent to observe their student and teacher interaction would be great for their trust in the system, and it would also provide a way to give constructive feedback to the teacher.
At this point, we have only not implemented it because it is no.60 on a list of things to do.
I have exactly the same problem: I explain that I have been using their service for almost three years, with Linux the whole time, but it doesn't seem to help. I explain that when they connect me to a specific number, I get a specific server error on their end, implying to me that they don't have that line set up correctly. Or I explain that I only get denied during peak hours, and that maybe they need to expand their servers, because I'm wasting 3 baht (US$.07) per call for fifteen tries just to check my email, only to be discoed before I can complete the download.
Later, we determined that, by changing the phone number to an unknown one used only for techs, I had no problems. That person was very helpful, and led to the solution. When I had moved some months before, I had asked to transfer my account to the new number (it is limited to one phone line), which they never did (I even payed a modest fee). During the weeks that this trouble unfolded, they were inplementing new software to check the phone number, and I was being kicked off. I told them that it was their responsibility to grep their logs for my connections over that perion and refund my three baht per phone call.
They flatly refused, but, mysteriously, I have not payed an internet fee for 8 months, and they haven't sent me any bills. Maybe I'm on eternally free internet.
Still, their official line is that it's Linux' fault. I hang up seeing red every time that I have to call them.
Except that the whole highway system as interstate trade was really just a sham to move farther towards federalism, where, eventually, the US government could hold states accountable for anything it wanted by threatening the enormous highway budget.
I'm sorry to be confusing. My comment was aimed toward USB and not DVDs. USB made it all a snap.
It was about 1:00am when I wrote it, so I'm sorry that I wasn't lucid.
Thailand has has a "School Internet Server )SIS)" for some time now. Maybe 5 years. It is used to provide internet access for goverment schools through a free number. Install the software onto a recent computer, attach the modem to the telephone line and the NIC to the LAN, and your school is "online" with library and webmail software to boot. A special web admin program is also included (not webmin or anything else I've seen, because many things are in non-standard locations). All the interfaces are in Thai.
LinuxTLE is the officially supported gov't Linux, and is expected to be announced as the national OS as soon as some Thai support issues are worked out.
OfficeTLE is in a similar situation.
Actually, I freaked out a CS major at the University where I used to teach by unpluggin the external USB CDR from the windows machine it was attached to (because I don't understand how to write an ISO in Windows, despite 15 minutes of googling. It's not "intuitive" enough) and carrying it over to the SMB server I had running for the lab. She said something like "Hey! Don't you want the driver disk for that? You know you need drivers, right" (except it wasn't in English) about four times in between my denials while I was plugging it in, after which I walked over to the first machine, went into Webmin, and wrote the ISO over the network. Her jaw hit the floor.
For Lexmark, the default answer seems to be to use foomatic to change the custom driver that Lexmark provides into something that cups can use, then use that. Look at www.linuxprinting.org
I still don't own a scanner because, in a former life, I was burned twice by ones that I thought were suppoerted but weren't, and have an old HP LaserJet5L instead of a newer model because of the same reason. Once I get something set up in Linux, I'm afraid to add very much to it.
The arrival of the GNOME 2.x series will see these
You need to edit the source of your copy/paste troll, because it is dated. No need to thank me now. Troll better next time.
Warning: I'm going to use the "L" word in a positive light.
Lindows, on first startup, has a flash tutorial to teach how to move around their desktop. I recommeded it to my friend in charge of the 1,000,000 Linux machine rollout as an example of how to introduce the new owners to LinuxTLE.
Getting people to use Linux is as simple as this: Sell an ultra cheap computer through the gov't preloaded with Linux (example: Thailand). Get a million new machines on the street this way and you'll get acceptance.
On a more serious note, The interest generated in Linux in every newspaper and magazine here is enormous.
My problem after using Gentoo for about 5 months was emerge -u world to find I had all kind of broken stuff on my machine. Gentoo would recompile a library or mysql and all the programs that depended on it would start acting funny or randomly crashing. I got tired of recompiling my machine from scratch and went back to a binary distro which updates constantly, giving me much of the benefits that I had with Gentoo, but none of the headaches.
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In fact, on the third page, he talks about the presentations, saying that:
Many of these talks looked interesting but unfortunately for me many of them were in German and given that my German language skills consist of "Ein Bier" they weren't of much interest after all. In addition to the main talks there were also some side events such as one on Friday which was talks and workshops devoted to Debian.
I did manage to get along to a couple of the talks though:
Those talks being "Commercial Involvement in Open Software" by Ken Coar of the Apache Software Foundation / IBM and "Free Software in the Knowledge Society" by Sandro Zic of ZZ/OSS Information Networking.
Hey, I wasn't actually saying you should drop your working setup and move onto a new system. In fact, except for things like hardware failures, your system is exactly the same as mine. I was just interested in having a decent conversation with someone who has a setup similar to mine. Stick with your BSD, man, and I'll stick with my Linux, mostly because the gov't is really pushing it now, and we can get some support (in the non-service oriented sense of the word) in our setup.
I'm sorry, but your BSD's are not true "thin clients." They are no different than the MS "thin clients." I'm talking about total net boot, with nothing local except PXE or a 32k flashrom in the client. There are several organizations which put out pre-set CDs for just this. Install and work. BSD could do it, more work though...
Joking over.
I'm not telling you to move from BSD to Linux, just that you might consider bringing your HD based clients over to totally net boot systems and save some steps (precisely, the "ls -1 | xargs pkg_upgrade"). Just a suggestion, not trying to tell you how to do your job, just you should extrapolate the benefits you see with the Win2000 server to your base system, as well.
Look at K12LTSP for one of the organizations that facilitates this.
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For my private language school, I have thought about linking cams from the classrooms to the reception area, most likely using webcams connected to diskless clients. I think the ability for a parent to observe their student and teacher interaction would be great for their trust in the system, and it would also provide a way to give constructive feedback to the teacher.
At this point, we have only not implemented it because it is no.60 on a list of things to do.
How are they going to offer this? Are there any details?
I, for one, am excited about it and hope to have it running by tomorrow. I could use the better I/O
I have exactly the same problem: I explain that I have been using their service for almost three years, with Linux the whole time, but it doesn't seem to help. I explain that when they connect me to a specific number, I get a specific server error on their end, implying to me that they don't have that line set up correctly. Or I explain that I only get denied during peak hours, and that maybe they need to expand their servers, because I'm wasting 3 baht (US$.07) per call for fifteen tries just to check my email, only to be discoed before I can complete the download.
Later, we determined that, by changing the phone number to an unknown one used only for techs, I had no problems. That person was very helpful, and led to the solution. When I had moved some months before, I had asked to transfer my account to the new number (it is limited to one phone line), which they never did (I even payed a modest fee). During the weeks that this trouble unfolded, they were inplementing new software to check the phone number, and I was being kicked off. I told them that it was their responsibility to grep their logs for my connections over that perion and refund my three baht per phone call.
They flatly refused, but, mysteriously, I have not payed an internet fee for 8 months, and they haven't sent me any bills. Maybe I'm on eternally free internet. Still, their official line is that it's Linux' fault. I hang up seeing red every time that I have to call them.
Except that the whole highway system as interstate trade was really just a sham to move farther towards federalism, where, eventually, the US government could hold states accountable for anything it wanted by threatening the enormous highway budget.
I'm sorry to be confusing. My comment was aimed toward USB and not DVDs. USB made it all a snap.
It was about 1:00am when I wrote it, so I'm sorry that I wasn't lucid.
Thailand has has a "School Internet Server )SIS)" for some time now. Maybe 5 years. It is used to provide internet access for goverment schools through a free number. Install the software onto a recent computer, attach the modem to the telephone line and the NIC to the LAN, and your school is "online" with library and webmail software to boot. A special web admin program is also included (not webmin or anything else I've seen, because many things are in non-standard locations). All the interfaces are in Thai.
LinuxTLE is the officially supported gov't Linux, and is expected to be announced as the national OS as soon as some Thai support issues are worked out. OfficeTLE is in a similar situation.
Actually, I freaked out a CS major at the University where I used to teach by unpluggin the external USB CDR from the windows machine it was attached to (because I don't understand how to write an ISO in Windows, despite 15 minutes of googling. It's not "intuitive" enough) and carrying it over to the SMB server I had running for the lab. She said something like "Hey! Don't you want the driver disk for that? You know you need drivers, right" (except it wasn't in English) about four times in between my denials while I was plugging it in, after which I walked over to the first machine, went into Webmin, and wrote the ISO over the network. Her jaw hit the floor.
For Lexmark, the default answer seems to be to use foomatic to change the custom driver that Lexmark provides into something that cups can use, then use that. Look at www.linuxprinting.org
I still don't own a scanner because, in a former life, I was burned twice by ones that I thought were suppoerted but weren't, and have an old HP LaserJet5L instead of a newer model because of the same reason. Once I get something set up in Linux, I'm afraid to add very much to it.
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Why do you think he just made up the number? You don't know, so noone else does either?
The arrival of the GNOME 2.x series will see these You need to edit the source of your copy/paste troll, because it is dated. No need to thank me now. Troll better next time.
If you are running an RPM based distro, it's here or here.
Warning: I'm going to use the "L" word in a positive light.
Lindows, on first startup, has a flash tutorial to teach how to move around their desktop. I recommeded it to my friend in charge of the 1,000,000 Linux machine rollout as an example of how to introduce the new owners to LinuxTLE.
Talk to Jim about that. Find him on freenode.net and join #ltsp and ask him how he feeds his family consulting with Free software.
That's exactly what these guys are doing. Look at some of the case studies here and here.
Getting people to use Linux is as simple as this: Sell an ultra cheap computer through the gov't preloaded with Linux (example: Thailand). Get a million new machines on the street this way and you'll get acceptance.
On a more serious note, The interest generated in Linux in every newspaper and magazine here is enormous.
My problem after using Gentoo for about 5 months was emerge -u world to find I had all kind of broken stuff on my machine. Gentoo would recompile a library or mysql and all the programs that depended on it would start acting funny or randomly crashing. I got tired of recompiling my machine from scratch and went back to a binary distro which updates constantly, giving me much of the benefits that I had with Gentoo, but none of the headaches.
Nobody here but us chickens. Definitely no chicken hawks. No...
Last time I looked, you only needed a CAL, not a workstation license. Correct me if this has changed.
Well, since I'm interested in this, but you give no homepage or email for contact, I'm going to ask for more details on your company.
Hey, I wasn't actually saying you should drop your working setup and move onto a new system. In fact, except for things like hardware failures, your system is exactly the same as mine. I was just interested in having a decent conversation with someone who has a setup similar to mine. Stick with your BSD, man, and I'll stick with my Linux, mostly because the gov't is really pushing it now, and we can get some support (in the non-service oriented sense of the word) in our setup.
I'm sorry, but your BSD's are not true "thin clients." They are no different than the MS "thin clients." I'm talking about total net boot, with nothing local except PXE or a 32k flashrom in the client. There are several organizations which put out pre-set CDs for just this. Install and work. BSD could do it, more work though... Joking over. I'm not telling you to move from BSD to Linux, just that you might consider bringing your HD based clients over to totally net boot systems and save some steps (precisely, the "ls -1 | xargs pkg_upgrade"). Just a suggestion, not trying to tell you how to do your job, just you should extrapolate the benefits you see with the Win2000 server to your base system, as well. Look at K12LTSP for one of the organizations that facilitates this.
Awesome? You should go to the next level: Linux-based thin clients with a Windows 2000 Term Server. Now you have no desktops to "upgrade."