Re: [Ltsp-discuss] HP T5735 with LTSP?

2008-05-14 Thread Martin Woolley
all of which work fine with the LTSP. Looking at the spec sheet for the T5735 these will work too. The o/s installed on the thin client is irrelevant for LTSP use; for example our T5300s are Windoze CE based while the T5135s are Linux based. They PXE boot and load the LTSP kernel. -- Re

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] multihead ltsp

2008-02-27 Thread Martin Woolley
;s not an LTSP but it looks an interesting idea. One of our students is going to do work experience with us, and I plan to get him to build a 4 user version as a technical exercise. -- Regards Martin Woolley ICT Support Handsworth Grammar School Isis Astarte Diana

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Out of disc space?

2008-02-06 Thread Martin Woolley
bles you to rejig you partition table, assuming you have enough free space. Recently I had to increase the size of my boot partition to accomodate a kernel upgrade and gparted enabled me to rejig my entire table without resorting to a reinstall. -- Regards Martin Woolley ICT Support Handswor

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] two seats per terminal

2007-07-23 Thread Martin Woolley
arious vendors with no success. > > any of you guys have any idea ? I wish that I had the time to fidddle with cool stuff like this. Have you seen this? http://www.tldp.org/LDP/LGNET/124/smith.html It might give you some ideas on how to fix your problem. -- Regards Martin Woolley ICT Sup

[Ltsp-discuss] Interview with Jim McQuillan and Ron Colcernian

2007-07-02 Thread Martin Woolley
I don't know if this has been mentioned but these two splendid fellows have been interviewed by Linux Format magazine and the interview is featured in the August 2007 issue. -- Regards Martin Woolley ICT Support Handsworth Grammar School Isis Astarte Diana Hecate Demeter Kali I

[Ltsp-discuss] LTSP, down by the sea: a 20-terminal Linux cybertent for education

2007-03-13 Thread Martin Woolley
;ve been in the wrong for over 1/2 of my IT career. -- Regards Martin Woolley ICT Support Handsworth Grammar School Isis Astarte Diana Hecate Demeter Kali Inanna * This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and inte

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Thin cilent

2007-03-06 Thread Martin Woolley
lly realise that without the server, the thin client is useless. I'm hoping that it will quietly reappear, once the thief finds this out. One thing that you might like to know, is that if a keyboard gets damaged, and you want to stick with genuine HP keyboards, they are £40 each, if you can

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP and Clustering

2007-03-02 Thread Martin Woolley
On Thursday 01 March 2007 14:28, Peter Scheie wrote: > Martin Woolley wrote: > > On Tuesday 27 February 2007 13:39, Noel wrote: > >> Tadeu F. Oliveira wrote: > >>> Hi, Everybody > >>> does anyone have tried LTSP with some kind of load balance? > >&

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP and Clustering

2007-02-27 Thread Martin Woolley
in. Originally we had 6 of the Athlons and they supported 90 clients without too many problems; the Xeons have no probs at all. We've been running this method of load balancing for 3 years and I don't expect us to look to a more sophisticated solution. I should probably retire the At

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Realtek 8139D - hard to work :(

2006-12-12 Thread Martin Woolley
-matic. It's been a long time but I from memory we used the 8139 0x10ec,0x8138 image. I see there are several 8139 images in the rom-o-matic site; why not grab them all and see which one works for you? -- Regards Martin Woolley ICT Support Handsworth Grammar School Isis Astarte Diana

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Google Earth crashes

2006-06-16 Thread Martin Woolley
tions? We're sticking to the web interface. It runs much faster than locally installed google earth. AFAIK google earth is written using qtopia. Why did it take s long for a linux version of the browser to come out, especially as there has been a linux version of the server for ages?

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Jerky mouse-wheel scrolling with HP 5125

2006-06-06 Thread Martin Woolley
u want two mice on a thin client? On the teachers desk, the USB mouse in actually a wireless presenter and the clients are connected to a projector via a VNC splitter. The teacher can walk around the room and still drive the computer on his desk. XLNT! Unfortunately you can't run 2 U

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Thin Clients in the UK

2006-04-19 Thread Martin Woolley
.cheeplinux.com/product_info.php?cPath=72&products_id=231&osCsid= >f23d42a1cd4a147a9f4951df515b763b > > Note the different product ID. This machine usually costs £219.99 We've just bought Compaq T5520s for £169 (ex vat) direct from HP. These come with keyboard and mouse too. -- Regards Marti

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Dual Monitor + Dual Cards on LTSP client

2006-03-22 Thread Martin Woolley
A bit off topic but here is how to setup a six-headed, six-user Linux system http://linuxgazette.net/124/smith.html which could be an alternative to LTSP for a very small installation. -- Regards Martin Woolley ICT Support Handsworth Grammar School Isis Astarte Diana Hecate Demeter Kali Inanna

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] cpu

2006-02-27 Thread Martin Woolley
the > time when rsync is running. Pls inform if this is normal, if not what > steps should be taken by me. rsync is very resource dependent. cron is your friend here - do your rsyncs after hours like we do. -- Regards Martin Woolley ICT Support Handsworth Grammar School Isis Astarte D

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Automatic logout

2005-11-30 Thread Martin Woolley
a definitive solution. LOGMON (www.computronics.com) can be used to do what you want; we are going to implement this at the end of term and I'll report back on our findings. -- Regards Martin Woolley ICT Support Handsworth Grammar School Isis Astarte Diana Hecate Demeter Kali Inanna *

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] screensavers

2005-11-24 Thread Martin Woolley
ble. We also have the screen saver disabled b default, although users can enable it of they wish. -- Regards Martin Woolley ICT Support Handsworth Grammar School Isis Astarte Diana Hecate Demeter Kali Inanna * This email and any

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Second-hand Thin Clients?

2005-10-12 Thread Martin Woolley
uiet machines although not as quiet as a real thin client, as they do have a fan. These boxes are always going on ebay. Also, there are a few thin clients on www.ebay.co.uk at the mo. -- Regards Martin Woolley ICT Support Handsworth Grammar School Isis Astarte Dia

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] setting Environment Var

2005-10-07 Thread Martin Woolley
o return ws254 ( name of thin client ) ? netstat -t -e | grep $LOGNAME | grep -i x11 | head -1 | awk '{print $5}' might be what you are looking for. -- Regards Martin Woolley ICT Support Handsworth Grammar School Isis Astarte Diana Hecate Demeter Kali Inanna **

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] different logins for different folks

2005-08-11 Thread Martin Woolley
to runlevel 3. Every one who logs in will get a command line. For those who need a gui, stick a startx command in their .bashrc file. This probably won't solve your problem though... -- Regards Martin Woolley ICT Support Handsworth Grammar School Isis Astarte Diana Hecate

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] HP t5515 vs t5525 thin client - decisions, decisions

2005-08-10 Thread Martin Woolley
ave - Flash ROM: 32 MB; System Memory: 64 MB SDRAM; similar spec to the t5515 that you mentioned. Setup was easy too; set the boot device to network and plug 'em in. -- Regards Martin Woolley ICT Support Handsworth Grammar School Isi

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Using KDM

2005-08-03 Thread Martin Woolley
sp setup > I am using Fedora Core 2 and have set the system to use KDM (in > /etc/sysconfig/Desktop) > > Or should I stick with gdm? Well the choice is yours but a good reason to swing over to kde may be found here http://www.openhgs.org/it.cgi/Servers130904 -- Regards Martin Wooll

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP on Fedora Core 3

2005-06-15 Thread Martin Woolley
lt on FC3 - just the other day I used the gui to install some apps that I'd forgtten that we needed -- Regards Martin Woolley ICT Support Handsworth Grammar School Isis Astarte Diana Hecate Demeter Kali Inanna * This email and any

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Thin Client auto Shutdown?

2005-05-27 Thread Martin Woolley
PCs as thin clients it might be that they have a shutdown built into the BIOS. Dell Optiplex machines have this; you can automatically power them off at the end of the day and have them power on again ready for the clocking on whistle. -- Regards Martin Woolley ICT Support Handsworth Grammar Sch

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] defunct x-session-managers

2005-02-17 Thread Martin Woolley
we were running GDM. We also used to get cases where-by the thin client would hang, and the only fix was to reboot the client. This left the defuct process as described. Sincing we've switched to KDM both problems have gone away. Which display manager are you running? -- Regards Ma

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Local Application + NIS + SSH problems.

2004-11-18 Thread Martin Woolley
ma of NIS. My notes may be of some assistance http://www.openhgs.org/moin.cgi/NISNFS -- Regards Martin Woolley ICT Support Handsworth Grammar School Isis Astarte Diana Hecate Demeter Kali Inanna * This email and any files transmitted wi

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP screensaver under kdm (xdm) on terminals HOWTO

2004-11-05 Thread Martin Woolley
der issue. Do we really need to run screen savers these days? I can.t say that I've noticed any monitors with a picture permanently etched into the phoshor like we used to see. I'd be surprised if a TFT monitor suffers any burn (I have no experience with these - we can't affo

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] lpr: command not found

2004-11-03 Thread Martin Woolley
there is no need for it to be accessibkle on the client. The lpr command must be executed on the server. -- Regards Martin Woolley ICT Support Handsworth Grammar School Isis Astarte Diana Hecate Demeter Kali Inanna * This email and

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Students w/o Internet permission

2004-11-01 Thread Martin Woolley
t the permissions on the firefox binaries were set accordingly. -- Regards Martin Woolley ICT Support Handsworth Grammar School Isis Astarte Diana Hecate Demeter Kali Inanna * This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential an

[Ltsp-discuss] LTSP in the news

2004-09-17 Thread Martin Woolley
im's super solution! -- Regards Martin Woolley ICT Support Handsworth Grammar School Isis Astarte Diana Hecate Demeter Kali Inanna * This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of th