Re: What can I do with six new publicly available computers?

2005-09-21 Thread valentin_nils
Hello Mitja, From your description below I understand exactly where you come from (I have been there too ;-) If I am correct than you have been using mainly Windows until now and find Linux pretty cool and was thinking now about setting up this community project. First of all, thats a nice

Re: What can I do with six new publicly available computers?

2005-09-21 Thread Mitja Podreka
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I am correct than you have been using mainly Windows until now and find Linux pretty cool and was thinking now about setting up this community project. First of all, thats a nice idea. Now lets walk through this in slow motion, shall we ? The situation is like

Re: What can I do with six new publicly available computers?

2005-09-21 Thread Mitja Podreka
Paul E Condon wrote: Where are you located? (What part of the World?) Europe, Slovenia What is the culture and level of education of your intended audience? It depends. Most of them are just common users of windows. But this is not a problem as we are planning to make courses to teach

Re: What can I do with six new publicly available computers?

2005-09-21 Thread valentin_nils
Hi Mitja, The situation is like this. I migrated to Linux half a year ago becouse I was fed up with all the windows crap and now I'm a happy private user of Debian. I have been there . I know exactly what we are talking about. But I have roots in DOS era so it is not the first time I'm

Re: What can I do with six new publicly available computers?

2005-09-21 Thread Kjetil Kjernsmo
On onsdag 21 september 2005, 15:59, Mitja Podreka wrote: At the moment we are only offering web access. We would like to create a place where people will come and do some creative stuff with computers. What exactly depends on people itself. Sounds great! For one thing, you allready have

Re: What can I do with six new publicly available computers?

2005-09-21 Thread valentin_nils
Hi Mitja, The situation is like this. I migrated to Linux half a year ago becouse I was fed up with all the windows crap and now I'm a happy private user of Debian. I have been there . I know exactly what we are talking about. But I have roots in DOS era so it is not the first time I'm

Re: What can I do with six new publicly available computers?]

2005-09-21 Thread valentin_nils
Hi Mitja, The situation is like this. I migrated to Linux half a year ago becouse I was fed up with all the windows crap and now I'm a happy private user of Debian. I have been there . I know exactly what we are talking about. But I have roots in DOS era so it is not the first time I'm

What can I do with six new publicly available computers?

2005-09-20 Thread Mitja Podreka
Hello I would like to ask for some advice. I just need some basic guidelines as I'm quite new to Linux and never took care of more than one computer. I will then google around for details or ask in a separate thread. Some link would be greatly appreciated. I'm taking care of six new computers

Re: What can I do with six new publicly available computers?

2005-09-20 Thread Paul E Condon
On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 10:40:38AM +0200, Mitja Podreka wrote: Hello I would like to ask for some advice. I just need some basic guidelines as I'm quite new to Linux and never took care of more than one computer. I will then google around for details or ask in a separate thread. Some

Re: What can I do with six new publicly available computers?

2005-09-20 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya mitja On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 10:40:38AM +0200, Mitja Podreka wrote: simple solution .. use knoppix cd in each PC and you're done - do not put/keep any data on any PC, as users will erase it or copy it or break in or ?? and you have to figure out what they did

Re: What can I do with six new publicly available computers?

2005-09-20 Thread Hodgins Family
Good morning: simple solution .. use knoppix cd in each PC and you're done 2. In the centre we do a lot of video editing using Premiere on window$. I know some Linux video editing software but the problem is that just one computer is powerful enough to do the job. If I make cluster out

Re: What can I do with six new publicly available computers? now nis vs. rsync

2005-09-20 Thread Patrick Rittich
Alvin Oga wrote: anybody can login from anywhere after you set up nis or ldap ( both are bad idea ) or rsync /etc/passwd /etc/shadow to each machine ( my preference ) I like this idea of using rsync to copy over /etc/passwd, but I have to ask, what problems does nis have (since that's

Fwd: What can I do with six new publicly available computers? now nis vs. rsync

2005-09-20 Thread Dick Davies
'anybody can log in from anywhere' with nis/ldap is just plain FUD. NIS and LDAP are designed to do this, they do it (reasonably) well. scping over password and shadow is an ugly hack and will bite you if you create users on a regular basis. Maintenance is a pain. You also have a single 'master