Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Modifying LTSP.

2008-12-15 Thread Asmo Koskinen
Magnus Valle kirjoitti: > Thank you, I had not heard about iTALC before, that just might seem to > do the trick iTALC in action: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/iTalc -> Screenshots about using ITALC Best Regards Asmo Koskinen. ---

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Speedup Adobe Reader 8

2008-12-15 Thread Nicholas Metsovon
> 2. What are some other alternative PDF reader programs > available that have > similar capabilities as Adobe Reader, but would be faster > to render? Ex: We > need to be able to view thumbnails, and also to be able to > read annotations. Evince Document Viewer (http://www.gnome.org/projects/evi

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Speedup Adobe Reader 8

2008-12-15 Thread Magnus Valle
M Rathburn wrote: > Server is Edubuntu 8.10 32bit > Clients are Diskless Workstations PXE 1422's > > We're having a slight problem with Adobe Reader 8.whatever being somewhat > slow on our thin clients. The screen updates are what's slow - the file is > already downloaded completely and displayed.

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Modifying LTSP.

2008-12-15 Thread Magnus Valle
Chris Roberts wrote: > On Monday 15 Dec 2008, Gavin McCullagh wrote: > >> I think this issue might be best solved with iTalc. That isn't LTSP >> specific, but can be used on LTSP. The teacher can lock the student's >> desktops when they want the classes attention and unlock them when done. >>

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Modifying LTSP.

2008-12-15 Thread Chris Roberts
On Monday 15 Dec 2008, Gavin McCullagh wrote: > I think this issue might be best solved with iTalc.  That isn't LTSP > specific, but can be used on LTSP.  The teacher can lock the student's > desktops when they want the classes attention and unlock them when done. > > http://italc.sourcefor

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Modifying LTSP.

2008-12-15 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, On Mon, 15 Dec 2008, Magnus Valle wrote: > For example, if the class is just a lecture, then the students don't > need a browser or a spreadsheet. But if the teacher, in the middle of > the class, wanted the students to find the population of some country, > the teacher could flip a switch

[Ltsp-discuss] Speedup Adobe Reader 8

2008-12-15 Thread M Rathburn
Server is Edubuntu 8.10 32bit Clients are Diskless Workstations PXE 1422's We're having a slight problem with Adobe Reader 8.whatever being somewhat slow on our thin clients. The screen updates are what's slow - the file is already downloaded completely and displayed. We're running on a big-phat

[Ltsp-discuss] Modifying LTSP.

2008-12-15 Thread Magnus Valle
Hi LTSP community! First of all I would like to thank you for this awesome project. I would love to see LTSP used in our school, maybe some day I'll make it happen. I am writing an assignment, a thesis of sorts, about computers in schools, that includes a part about LTSP. My argument for using

[Ltsp-discuss] PXE boot hang with gt3 (broadcom NetLink driver)

2008-12-15 Thread LTSP
Hi all, I have a LTSP server, installed with the all-in-one LTSP CD with CentOS. Now I have some HP t5730 thin clients. I want to boot them using PXE. In the beginning I got a kernel error that the NIC wasn't found. With a little search I discovered that the NIC is a broadcom Netlink. The Linu

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Login fails

2008-12-15 Thread Jigish Gohil
On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 3:36 PM, jam wrote: > Hi > > Despite the hard work of all involved, and with apologies, I do not like the > SuSE TC implementation > 1) When I tried, my VIA EPIA TCs would not boot > 2) They make an aweful mess in the tftpboot directory > Follow the instructions here to se

[Ltsp-discuss] Login fails

2008-12-15 Thread jam
Hi Despite the hard work of all involved, and with apologies, I do not like the SuSE TC implementation 1) When I tried, my VIA EPIA TCs would not boot 2) They make an aweful mess in the tftpboot directory I have made rpm for a CentOS install (based on a bog standard ubuntu install) so I install

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Some issues with Ubuntu 8.04

2008-12-15 Thread Asmo Koskinen
Nicholas Metsovon kirjoitti: > You might also try a different version of your JVM. Sun's seems to work best > on our 8.04 64 bit system. Here is very raw howto for Ubuntu Alternate 8.10 AMD64 and SUN's jre1.6.0_12: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/edubuntu-users/2008-December/004915.html Be