Re: [info-tech] Does anybody use Instant Messaging for staff use for immediate communications

2005-06-08 Thread Brad Kruse
We use the Novell Messenger built into the client. Teachers use it quite often for hall passes, etc. Manson Northwest Webster-Home of the Cougars! Brad Kruse ("`-''-/").___..--''"`-._ Tech. Coord. `6_ 6 ) `-. ( ).`-.__.`) 1601 15th St.(_Y_.)' ._ ) `._ `. ``-.

[info-tech] Does anybody use Instant Messaging for staff use for immediate communications

2005-06-08 Thread Kuhl, Douglas
I am thinking outside of the box with the thought of giving staff an IM to use to IM immediate communications. Do any of you do this and if you have; what IM software did you use, how did you implement it, how did you teach the staff to use it, and was it beneficial or not? Figured I wouldn't

RE: [info-tech] Apple on Intel

2005-06-08 Thread HASS, JOHN
I installed 10.1 and it had no problems detecting the wireless etc in my 450SX. The very first linux distro I evet used was Mandrake mmm 6.something but I have not ever used it since then. I have heard very good things about suse. I know they have always been very solid. I guess I did instal

Re: [info-tech] Apple on Intel

2005-06-08 Thread Steven Scarbrough
> >10.1 is very solid. Have either of you tried Mandrake 10 or Suse 9.3? They both found all the drivers in my gateway 450SX laptops - (former BVU machines) - even the wireless cards. And with SuSE AutoYast updates were slick, checking dependencies as needed and downloading before installing.

RE: [info-tech] Apple on Intel

2005-06-08 Thread HASS, JOHN
I run slackware 10.1 on my desk here at school, I have 10.1 that runs my asterisk server, and 10.1 for my computer at home. 10.1 is very solid. Patrick knows what he is doing! I think the install is very unbloated and very fast compared to fedora core (I am sure you know how I feel about Red

RE: [info-tech] Apple on Intel

2005-06-08 Thread Jerry Smith
I had a heck of a time trying to get the modules loaded for debian as well as for Fedora Core 3. Then I tried slackware and I was good-to-go on the first try. Have you tried slack 10.1? It seems rock solid to me and is easy to install - if you don't mind the text-based installs. Oh, I read the ot

RE: [info-tech] Apple on Intel

2005-06-08 Thread HASS, JOHN
I understand now. Slackware has always been easy for me to get the correct modules auto loaded for raid devices. Where I agree debian and Redhat has sometimes been more difficult to get the correct modules. I did a full ftp install of debian and it was 2 gigs to downloaded and 8 gigs total

RE: [info-tech] Apple on Intel

2005-06-08 Thread Jerry Smith
Nope, hardware RAID. I've never used software RAID at all.I set it up so that all of the Linux Machines have the same /home folder. Even the dual-boot systems. I put slackware on everything because the links from the home folder are all the same. I could have (and probably will have a few Mepis box

RE: [info-tech] Apple on Intel

2005-06-08 Thread HASS, JOHN
I have used Slackware for more then 5 years, but I installed debian the other day becase of it's simple package upgrade system. I have had an issue with slackware-current breaking things for example slackware-current upgraded libc from 2.3.3 to 2.3.4 it broke almost everything. Your using soft

RE: [info-tech] Apple on Intel

2005-06-08 Thread Jerry Smith
Apples bread and butter has always been there hardware. otherwise they would port their OS to wintel machines now. From a conversation with a Mac employee, they have it running but they know that their hardware sales would drop. btw, John, I switched all my LTSP servers over to slackware - I kn

RE: [info-tech] Apple on Intel

2005-06-08 Thread HASS, JOHN
I use pearpc to emulate mac os X it does not currently work with 10.4 but 10.3.9 and lower it does. It can be slow at times, but it works well when I am developing software I am able to test in multiple enviroments. It emulates a ppc. But it runs on any X86 based processor. Including on top

Re: [info-tech] Apple on Intel

2005-06-08 Thread Steven Scarbrough
Lance wrote: > >There are kids running Linux on X Boxes in >the world so nothing is impossible Indeed. The newest XBox runs the PowerPC chip, so now the kiddies can load Yellow Dog Linux. Weird that MS moved from Intel to the PowerPC. Weirder yet that _Apple_ switched camps. Is there no norma

Re: [info-tech] Apple on Intel

2005-06-08 Thread Lance Lennon
The Darwin kernel has run on Intel since its inception. The GUI was not available on the Intel platform so it was all CLI. As far as thinking that you could run OS X on a PC, that is probably not going to be true right out of the box. There will probably be safeguards against non apple branded eq