February 2000 - openSUSE Edu - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Re: Christopher Dawkins
by adrian.wells 10 Feb '00

10 Feb '00

Indeed interesting - We'll be expecting lots of help from you then! :-) The main problem for schools is (paradoxically) lack of money, they are willing to throw money at expensive systems that are easy to understand -If you've seen Win3.xx then you can play with confidence with 95, 98 & NT and have a good idea of what it's all about. What they won't do is spend money on someone who is able to configure/maintain systems that are alien to them (they all have windows at home). Those also on the RM list server may have already seen an intellectual difference in the content (mine aside), What is this telling us? To my mind they are paying peanuts to maintain expensive equipment. And it's very much a case of monkey see monkey do in schools! There is also a wish to keep children in the same environment that they have at home - Teachers aren't known for delving into the unknown. - It makes sense, Office at home, office at school, office in the workplace. What we need is an OS that is transparent, cheap, difficult to hack and easy to maintain, LINUX appears to be offering two or three out of four at the moment. Kind Regards Adrian Wells _______________________________________ Systems Manager Sidcot School Oakridge Lane, Winscombe, Somerset BS25 1PD. Please reply to adrian.wells(a)sidcot.org.uk admin(a)sidcot.org.uk for general enquiries

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Introduction
by Peter Rutherford 10 Feb '00

10 Feb '00

Greetings from Our Lady of Sion School, Worthing! I am Peter Rutherford, Head of ICT. I have loaded your package on an old 486 which the school lets me have at home. However, I can't get it to boot from the hard drive, which is now wholly dedicated to Linux. I get a message teling me I'm set up for a "Pentium class". I can boot from floppy and have had fun with sax. I look forward to learning much more and am grateful for this forum for sharing ideas and problems. Regards Peter

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E-Mail
by adrian.wells 10 Feb '00

10 Feb '00

STILL playing with Beebs! :-( In response to... >The "[suse-linux-uk-schools]" makes it easy to locate a message, - try >resizing the window to allow all the first line to show. If you use the "in box assistant" it will/can be made to send all relevant main from a specific address to a unique folder - no need for an identifier then, less work for my built in OCR/garbage collection!. Not intelligent, just lazy. Back to the Beebs! Kind Regards Adrian Wells _______________________________________ Systems Manager Sidcot School Oakridge Lane, Winscombe, Somerset BS25 1PD. Please reply to adrian.wells(a)sidcot.org.uk admin(a)sidcot.org.uk for general enquiries

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introduction
by Martin Devon 10 Feb '00

10 Feb '00

Good morning all. I am Martin Devon, the IT Consultant at Stonar School in Wiltshire. (For the above, read, I am Head of IT, but in order to be able to take an independent line I am not prepared to be an employee as such). At the moment we use Linux <SMALL> but it is not SuSE at the moment </SMALL> on a Dell 2400 server, specifically for the Navaho Internet Suite, which provides all our Web/Proxy/Webmail services and is highly reliable. I am vehemently anti-PC in education, believing that the proliferation of Windows and Office in particular in the last 2 or 3 years has led to a increase in flashy presentations but a parallel loss both of precision and understanding of the principles, contrary to the intentions of the examination boards. (That may perhaps start some discussion :) We have a switched fibre-optic network of 90-odd StrongArm RiscPCs which do absolutely everything (including all the school admin) and are provided on a basis of about 1:4 in this boarding/day school of about 350 girls. It is very successful with some 63,000 coursework files on the net as I write. Here lies our one weakness: although at least as good as other places' NT servers in terms of stability etc, the RiscPC based servers are limited in their network throughput. My expectation of Linux is that we shall be able to run a fast dedicated server of the highest reliability - quite a consideration in a 24/7/365 organisation. Regards to all -- Martin

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Re: [suse-linux-uk-schools] Have I gone blind
by Admin2 10 Feb '00

10 Feb '00

The problem with a threaded page is it takes so long to read your way through (well the ones I hve come across do), with e-mails simply arrow down to the next. With perhaps 200 a day the least time it takes to scan through the better. The "[suse-linux-uk-schools]" makes it easy to locate a message, - try resizing the window to allow all the first line to show. CFG ---------- > From: adrian.wells <adrian.wells(a)sidcot.org.uk> > To: Suse List <suse-linux-uk-schools(a)suse.com> > Subject: Re: [suse-linux-uk-schools] Have I gone blind > Date: 10 February 2000 12:03 > > Hi Roger, > > >What actually happened? > >Roger > > I knew you would ask that! :-) Hence my disclaimer about not having taken > notes! Still playing with Beebs, will get back ASAP. > > PS In the subject line of e-mails you include "[suse-linux-uk-schools] " > Could this be omitted or moved to the end of the line to make reading the > headings a little less difficult. > > While on the subject, what about a 'proper' threaded page that will make > following conversations a little easier? > > Just a thought. > > Many thanks for your quick reply Roger. > Adrian > > > > Kind Regards > Adrian Wells > _______________________________________ > Systems Manager > Sidcot School > Oakridge Lane, Winscombe, Somerset BS25 1PD. > > Please reply to > adrian.wells(a)sidcot.org.uk > admin(a)sidcot.org.uk for general enquiries > > > > On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, adrian.wells wrote: > > Kind Regards > Adrian Wells > _______________________________________ > Systems Manager > Sidcot School > Oakridge Lane, Winscombe, Somerset BS25 1PD. > > Please reply to > adrian.wells(a)sidcot.org.uk > admin(a)sidcot.org.uk for general enquiries

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Re: [suse-linux-uk-schools] Have I gone blind
by adrian.wells 10 Feb '00

10 Feb '00

Hi Roger, >What actually happened? >Roger I knew you would ask that! :-) Hence my disclaimer about not having taken notes! Still playing with Beebs, will get back ASAP. PS In the subject line of e-mails you include "[suse-linux-uk-schools] " Could this be omitted or moved to the end of the line to make reading the headings a little less difficult. While on the subject, what about a 'proper' threaded page that will make following conversations a little easier? Just a thought. Many thanks for your quick reply Roger. Adrian Kind Regards Adrian Wells _______________________________________ Systems Manager Sidcot School Oakridge Lane, Winscombe, Somerset BS25 1PD. Please reply to adrian.wells(a)sidcot.org.uk admin(a)sidcot.org.uk for general enquiries On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, adrian.wells wrote: Kind Regards Adrian Wells _______________________________________ Systems Manager Sidcot School Oakridge Lane, Winscombe, Somerset BS25 1PD. Please reply to adrian.wells(a)sidcot.org.uk admin(a)sidcot.org.uk for general enquiries

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Have I gone blind
by adrian.wells 10 Feb '00

10 Feb '00

Hi, Can anyone help, Okay, I've had SAX with my SuSE, but I can's see out of any windows have I gone blind? When I try to start KDE, I get several error messages and then reports that some packages have not been installed (sorry didn't write down the errors - will do later, but the machine is off as we are fixing BBCs (yes you read me right!) and need loads of sockets!) Should I be looking for KYJ? :-) Kind Regards Adrian Wells _______________________________________ Systems Manager Sidcot School Oakridge Lane, Winscombe, Somerset BS25 1PD. Please reply to adrian.wells(a)sidcot.org.uk admin(a)sidcot.org.uk for general enquiries

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New Member - Des Reynolds
by DCR 10 Feb '00

10 Feb '00

Hi There By way of an Introduction I am the ICT resources specialist at BBHS Technology School in Lowestoft. We run SuSe Linux on our Proxy server, but without really knowing enough about it. I have bought my own copy of SUSE 6.3 and have now sucessfully installed it in text mode on a PC with a miniscule hard drive. Next step is to get it up and running with X Windows. Meanwhile what to look at first......... Des

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New Member - Des Reynolds
by DCR 10 Feb '00

10 Feb '00

Hi There By way of an Introduction I am the ICT resources specialist at BBHS Technology School in Lowestoft. We run SuSe Linux on our Proxy server, but without really knowing enough about it. I have bought my own copy of SUSE 6.3 and have now sucessfully installed it in text mode on a PC with a miniscule hard drive. Next step is to get it up and running with X Windows. Meanwhile what to look at first......... Des

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Today's welcome message
by Roger Whittaker 10 Feb '00

10 Feb '00

Quite a few people have again subscribed overnight ... Please post a mail and introduce yourselves if you haven't done so already. And tell us how you're getting on (even if that's `well I read the manual on the bus on the way to work, but I haven't installed it yet'). Do use the list as a way of airing problems and getting answers. Already there are people on the list who have gained experience which they are willing to share. And we are watching the list and will try to help as much as we can. If you post a question to the list and we answer, please post supplementary questions to the list also, not just to me. Then others get the benefit of seeing stuff that may be useful to them. Good luck: keep posting. -- Roger Whittaker SuSE Linux Ltd The Kinetic Centre Theobald Street Borehamwood Herts WD6 4PJ ---------------------- 020 8387 1482 ---------------------- roger(a)suse-linux.co.uk ----------------------

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