Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Cheapest and best way to expand LTSP network

2006-01-29 Thread Benjamin Green
This is where I would be looking for your problem, motherboard or power supply. Faulty capacitors, which are common, will cause random freezes with no explanation, as will bad power supplies. Both can result in tiny temporary voltage drops which ends up locking everything up. You might wa

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Cheapest and best way to expand LTSP network

2006-01-29 Thread Gustavo Guillermo Pérez
El Miércoles, 25 de Enero de 2006 15:46, Krsnendu Dasa escribió: > System freezes. Not problem at client. Thought it could be bad Ram but > memtext 86 didn't show up anything. Where else could I look for clues. Sometimes memtest, realize a good test, but memory still has a failure. :P -- Gustavo G

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Cheapest and best way to expand LTSP network

2006-01-28 Thread Benjamin Green
On Thu, 26 Jan 2006 01:20:21 -, Krsnendu Dasa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It is the scribus tutorial - Getting started with Scribus on their website. The image on the front page is a carving of nude woman. Not really primary school material. A shame because the rest of the tutorial se

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Cheapest and best way to expand LTSP network

2006-01-27 Thread Sudev Barar
On 1/27/06, Chris Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would see where the bottlenecks are before I would throw various hardware > at the problem. There are a few things to monitor while the students are > doing desktop publishing work. First, since desktop publishing is very > graphical, I wou

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Cheapest and best way to expand LTSP network

2006-01-27 Thread Chris Thomas
:28 AM Subject: [Ltsp-discuss] Cheapest and best way to expand LTSP network The number of client computers connected to our K12LTSP network keeps increasing. It is currently 14 clients soon to increase to 20 or more with the addition of a new classroom. Most clients are very similar Compaq Deskpro

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Cheapest and best way to expand LTSP network

2006-01-25 Thread Krsnendu Dasa
Benjamin Green wrote: On Wed, 25 Jan 2006 21:45:24 -, Krsnendu Dasa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 3. The tutorial was inappropriate for primary school. The example graphics were photos of sexual stone carvings (like kama sutra)! I'll forward the last comment to the scribus list. Can't th

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Cheapest and best way to expand LTSP network

2006-01-25 Thread Benjamin Green
On Wed, 25 Jan 2006 21:45:24 -, Krsnendu Dasa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Scribus seems to be to a good powerful program. I didn't use it personally but comments I heard were 1. Iit didn't have templates and other goodies that you get in Publisher. 2. Also the text box editing works in a tr

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Cheapest and best way to expand LTSP network

2006-01-25 Thread Krsnendu Dasa
Benjamin Green wrote: On Wed, 25 Jan 2006 08:50:28 -, Krsnendu Dasa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: During a newspaper production project, when we had more than ten clients running simultaneously using Scribus and OpenOffice or Firefox, things slowed down a bit and we had a few crashes.

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Cheapest and best way to expand LTSP network

2006-01-25 Thread Krsnendu Dasa
Benjamin Green wrote: On Wed, 25 Jan 2006 08:50:28 -, Krsnendu Dasa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: During a newspaper production project, when we had more than ten clients running simultaneously using Scribus and OpenOffice or Firefox, things slowed down a bit and we had a few crashes.

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Cheapest and best way to expand LTSP network

2006-01-25 Thread Krsnendu Dasa
Except Scribus and the other software you mention, I guess Gimp might also be used in the same context. I think more RAM wouldn't hurt if you'll have more simultaneous users. BTW: how did you fare with Scribus? We happen to have similar plans here, but noone has gotten around to testing ope

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Cheapest and best way to expand LTSP network

2006-01-25 Thread Sudev Barar
On 1/25/06, Gudmund Areskoug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Krsnendu Dasa wrote: > > The number of client computers connected to our K12LTSP network keeps > > increasing. It is currently 14 clients soon to increase to 20 or more > > with the addition of a new classroom. Most clients are very similar

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Cheapest and best way to expand LTSP network

2006-01-25 Thread Sudev Barar
On 1/25/06, Gudmund Areskoug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Other things at least we may have to think of is cooling, since the room > where the server is today gets rather hot. > > BR, > Gudmund Gumund is abs right on this one. Put in more cooling and then more. -- Sudev Barar Learning Linux --

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Cheapest and best way to expand LTSP network

2006-01-25 Thread Gudmund Areskoug
Hi Krsnendu, I'm having similar things to think of. Haven't gotten around to getting things done yet, but I can share some things I've considered. Krsnendu Dasa wrote: The number of client computers connected to our K12LTSP network keeps increasing. It is currently 14 clients soon to increase

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Cheapest and best way to expand LTSP network

2006-01-25 Thread Eugene Coetzee
Krsnendu Dasa wrote: During a newspaper production project, when we had more than ten clients running simultaneously using Scribus and OpenOffice or Firefox, things slowed down a bit and we had a few crashes. Did you experiences crashes on the clients or on the server? Increasing RAM from 1

[Ltsp-discuss] Cheapest and best way to expand LTSP network

2006-01-25 Thread Krsnendu Dasa
The number of client computers connected to our K12LTSP network keeps increasing. It is currently 14 clients soon to increase to 20 or more with the addition of a new classroom. Most clients are very similar Compaq Deskpro DPENS P2 or Celeron 350 or 400MHz. Our current server hardware is AMD 25