June 2002 - openSUSE Edu - openSUSE Mailing Lists

AMD Processors
by Edgehill e-mail service 07 Jun '02

07 Jun '02

Hi, Does anyone know how well SuSE performs on the AMD Duron processor (I know it looks pretty good on Athlon) - it's just that I don't know Duron that well ;) What I'm _really_ interested in is stability! Regards, Paul Ellison ICT Manager, Edgehill College. -------------------------------------------------------------- Legal Advisory: Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act, 2000. --------------------------------------------- You are warned that all electronic communications are subject to interception for regulatory, quality control and crime detection purposes. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Edgehill IT Department Email Service. Please check sender's address from body of Message for return address. Find us at: www.edgecoll.clara.net ------------------------------------------------------------------------

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OT Re: PS2 Linux Kit- Any Good?
by Paul Munro 07 Jun '02

07 Jun '02

Hi there all. Has anyone got any idea how good the PS2 Linux kit is- i.e. what can it be used for, does it integrate well with a LAN etc?? Many thanks! Paul Munro

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StarOffice 6.0
by Christopher Dawkins 06 Jun '02

06 Jun '02

Our beta of SO6 expired at the end of March, but a renewal was available. The renewed version has now expired. I completed the "Please notify me when education licenses become available" on the Sun site some weeks ago, but have heard nothing. Can anyone tell me where I can get hold of a current version? -- Christopher Dawkins, Felsted School, Dunmow, Essex CM6 3JG 01371-822698, mobile 07816 821659 cchd(a)felsted.essex.sch.uk

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RE: [school-discuss] Becta feedback
by Phillip Deackes 05 Jun '02

05 Jun '02

On Wednesday, June 5, 2002, at 11:07 , Chris Puttick wrote: Sorry Matt, I slipped up slightly in my phraseology - the word missing was "Secondary" - please insert at the beginning of the original email. This is from someone who is an ex-industry IT professional and now provides ICT support services to schools in all age ranges, as well as to LEAs. Primary teachers are on the whole harder-working, more positive, more flexible, less complaining and less well-paid than their secondary counterparts. Of course, on the whole, primary children are a whole lot nicer than secondary ones... Pah! For harder-working, more positive, more flexible, less complaining read 'more stupid'. Teachers are, and have always been, their own worst enemies. I am not criticising my primary colleagues, just making an observation. I have worked in both primary and secondary and in my experience (which may count for nothing) I have observed primary teachers chasing their tails trying to implement whatever government and senior colleagues throw at them whereas secondary teachers are more likely to say 'on yer bike'. A healthy cynicism is absolutely vital in life if sanity and health are to be retained. Our government *does not* have all the answers, it just thinks it does. In reality it has only an opinion which changes according to the level of its popularity. Maybe primary children are nicer because they are younger. -- Phillip Deackes using Mac OS X

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RE: [suse-linux-uk-schools] RE: [school-discuss] Becta feedback
by Chris Puttick 05 Jun '02

05 Jun '02

Sorry Matt, I slipped up slightly in my phraseology - the word missing was "Secondary" - please insert at the beginning of the original email. This is from someone who is an ex-industry IT professional and now provides ICT support services to schools in all age ranges, as well as to LEAs. Primary teachers are on the whole harder-working, more positive, more flexible, less complaining and less well-paid than their secondary counterparts. Of course, on the whole, primary children are a whole lot nicer than secondary ones... And on the subject of MyWorld, be nice, one of the subscribers wrote it. I thought it was nice anyway... And it helps fund him do a lot of open source related work (BTW Mr D., the metadata's ready for Hobarte e-reg, if you've got comfortable with Interbase now. And a certain well-known development company may be onboard....) Cheers Chris -----Original Message----- From: Matt Johnson To: SuSe Sent: 5/29/02 6:20 PM Subject: Re: [suse-linux-uk-schools] RE: [school-discuss] Becta feedback As a teacher first, and a network administrator second... --- Chris Puttick <chris(a)centralmanclc.com> wrote: > Teachers in the UK are being expected to do less and > less work by > government. Ay, about time. Have a misread your intention, or is there a bit of "they don't work hard enough, those lazy bastards" in your tone? I, for one, am a bloody busy bloke. Although you do say there are some notable exceptions, I don't know a primary teacher who doesn't work hard. Don't get me wrong, I know some crap ones, but even they work hard! Government after government has expected teachers to do more. Every little regular two-hour task they pile at teachers, implies that they have two hours free. The Government seems to say that the workload should decrease, but I've seen little evidence that. Moan, moan, whinge whinge. Damn teachers. As your package does not fit neatly into > the UK national > curriculum (i.e. you haven't pre-defined for them > what the package does in > NC terms), they're not (with some notable > exceptions) going to be > interested. Absolutely. It's worth _so_ much more to a teacher if it's tied in neatly, and labelled clearly ie. This element of gcompris covers "blah blah blah" at Keystage 1. Not through idleness, but through trying to cut down to reasonable the ammount of work that's required to do the job. I think I work at a reasonable level. I don't think I do _too_ much. Given the position of BECTa,they really > should take the time to > evaluate these packages, but don't. Agreed. Becta's site says it's function is: --- "The strength of Becta is its ability to bridge educational and technological developments and communities. Becta also seeks to: *evaluate information and communications technology (ICT) practice *support existing applications of ICT *investigate emerging technologies and associated pedagogy. As the Government's lead agency on the use of ICT in education, Becta plays a crucial role in helping to maximise the benefits to all teachers and learners that using ICT can bring." --- It looks to me, at first glance, that there's some great ideas in gcompris. I'm surprised it didn't get a positive reaction. Well, perhaps I'm not surprised - that would be naive. Have you seen some of the RM MyWorld stuff? *Choke* Now, all RM have done is clearly tie it in to the National Curriculum. So, that's the secret. See the following to see what kids in English schools are up to: http://www.nc.uk.net/home.html http://www.standards.dfee.gov.uk/schemes/ You could try to find someone with some experience in Primary teaching to tie all this in for you. (No, not I, I'm afraid) Hope that may go at least some way in helping. -- Matt Johnson __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: suse-linux-uk-schools-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands, e-mail: suse-linux-uk-schools-help(a)suse.com

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RE: [suse-linux-uk-schools] Silly question...
by Chris Puttick 05 Jun '02

05 Jun '02

Sadly, the answer I was looking for was "dd"... But the macro is cool too :-) -----Original Message----- From: Gary Stainburn To: Chris Puttick; 'suse-linux-uk-schools(a)suse.com' Sent: 6/5/02 3:44 PM Subject: Re: [suse-linux-uk-schools] Silly question... On Wednesday 05 June 2002 3:34 pm, Chris Puttick wrote: > Ok, this has been bugging me for a while, and is probably obvious, but: > using VI, how do you remove blank lines, i.e. carriage returns/paragraph > marks? Editting a big alias file has brought this to a head... > > Cheers > > Chris Hi Chris, The way I do it is to record/playback a little macro. Below is the macro and a description (bit before tab = macro, bit after tab = description, <cr> = enter key) qq record macro 'q' /^$<cr> search for next blank line dd delete it q end recording macro 999@q replay macro 'q' 999 times. The macro stops at the first error, i.e. the first time it can't find a blank line. -- Gary Stainburn This email does not contain private or confidential material as it may be snooped on by interested government parties for unknown and undisclosed purposes - Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act, 2000

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Silly question...
by Chris Puttick 05 Jun '02

05 Jun '02

Ok, this has been bugging me for a while, and is probably obvious, but: using VI, how do you remove blank lines, i.e. carriage returns/paragraph marks? Editting a big alias file has brought this to a head... Cheers Chris

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remote connection to SUSE 8.0
by Alan Davies 03 Jun '02

03 Jun '02

OK - I give up (again) Every time I get a new version of SUSE they move/change default files and I get lost. I can't telnet or start an Xsession from a client (PC runing Xserver). I clicked the bit in YAST(2) to enable remote X sessions but both cygwin and our Acorn Xserver fail to get past the mottled grey blank X screen. (In fact the Acorn server fails complaining about not finding the system font - but I suspect that might be misleading) I can't telnet either - and I looked at hosts.allow and uncommented the line in.telnetd which I thought should have allowed all remote hosts....but the message on the telnet client is that the connection was closed by the remote. Unless I missed it....I did not see an 'Install almost everything' button on the yast install...a feature which I rather liked on 7.4 On the good side... I have almost got winbind working. I found the swat/help/winbind file helpful and all the basic tests work. I have now got lost with trying to understand pam modules, their syntax, and how and which I need to modify. For the first time I had colour on my bttv TV card - until I selected a tuner and now I can't get the wizard to tune any stations regardless of which tuner I select (all give a detuned image when manually selecting the correct channel number). -- Alan Davies Head of Computing Birkenhead School

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Re: [suse-linux-uk-schools] remote connection to SUSE 8.0
by Phil Driscoll 02 Jun '02

02 Jun '02

On Saturday 01 June 2002 11:50 am, Alan Davies wrote: > I can't telnet or start an Xsession from a client (PC runing > Xserver). Didn't have a problem with this - our LTSP boxes kept working. I can't telnet either - and I looked at hosts.allow and uncommented the line in.telnetd which I thought should have allowed all remote hosts....but the message on the telnet client is that the connection was closed by the remote. Is inetd running? I think it won't be by default. Cheers -- Phil Driscoll

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