April 2003 - openSUSE Edu - openSUSE Mailing Lists

RE: [suse-linux-uk-schools] Digital Alpha station
by Chris Puttick 23 Apr '03

23 Apr '03

See: http://www.alphalinux.org/ and http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/axp/7.1/ -----Original Message----- From: Colin McQueen To: suse-linux-uk-schools(a)suse.com Sent: 4/23/03 11:26 AM Subject: [suse-linux-uk-schools] Digital Alpha station Hi I have one of these and was wondering if there is a free version of Linux I could install on it. -- Colin McQueen John 3:16 -- 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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Digital Alpha station
by Colin McQueen 23 Apr '03

23 Apr '03

Hi I have one of these and was wondering if there is a free version of Linux I could install on it. -- Colin McQueen John 3:16

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Re: [suse-linux-uk-schools] client printer drivers for cups
by N.Pauli 22 Apr '03

22 Apr '03

I have just installed Debian woody on one of my desktops and after installed a 2.4.18 kernel and doing a dist-upgrade to sid have thought about installing a printer. I have downloaded and installed the free version of turboprint [www.turboprint.de] which got my new Canon i550 running and even did the print head calibrations; but, .... printing is still typically linux-cr*p :( with fonts being displayed on the screen but not on the sheet and the printed page being a little too big for the paper page. I would be grateful if anyone has any suggestions on what I need to do re: fonts, printer config, etc to get to the happily ever after bit. Yours, Nigel On Sun, 13 Apr, Rob Keeling wrote: > I have set up a cups print server using SuSE 8.1 which seems to work really > well from our Win 2K clients, > but from our Windows 95/98 clients I can`to print colour! > > The problem is that I am using the Adobe postscript drivers, the win 98/95 > version does not seem to generate > the right sort of postscript with colour photos etc. > > Which printer drivers are other people using on older machines? > > I don`t want to use raw print queues as I want to use print quotas. > > Rob Keeling > Network Manager > Queen Elizabeth`s Grammar School > > -- Nigel Pauli Network Manager St. John's School, Northwood

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Re: [suse-linux-uk-schools] Staff Usage Policy
by Derek Harding 22 Apr '03

22 Apr '03

Chris Davies wrote: > Not a SUSE or Linux issue directly, but do any of you have a Staff IT > Usage Policy covering the Data Protection Act, security, email and > Internet Access and such. We have one for the pupils but we want to > introduce a sensible one for staff. Any suggestions? > The school I was at spent quite some time removing all the bluster and bullying to create a staff policy that acknowledged the fact that staff are old enough to vote (usually) and therefore can be responsible to a code of practice rather than a strict set of commandments. The end result was that it was easy to operate and enforce because common-sense actually prevailed. Staff were responsible for the wise use of Internet resources for educational purposes and we ran our own filters and proxies. So far as I know they still use the policy (4 years on) and have used it to my knowledge only three times up till last December with nodisciplinary action needed. We also ran a similar policy for pupils but with parental responsibility built-in (and signed for!) so that we could control student abuse. That was very useful for locking miscreants out of the system without huge wads of parental objection ("You signed to accept that your child would behave...") and was again easy to operate. We did not (and they still do not) allow students to have email accounts as a matter of course. Some sixth formers had email accounts created for them where required for their studies and we did look at using email accounts for the general school from the World Schools Network - since we decided that the legal requirements of monitoring student accounts balanced against their right to privacy wasn't worth the hassle. No email, no problem! -- Best wishes, Derek

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RE: [suse-linux-uk-schools] Staff Usage Policy
by Robb Bloomfield 22 Apr '03

22 Apr '03

Ours is the same as the one we have for students. Users are users, as far as the network team is concerned. They have a different set of terms and conditions, such as "I agree to monitor the students in my care", but the policy is the same. Am happy to mail copies.

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RE: [suse-linux-uk-schools] Staff Usage Policy
by Chris Puttick 22 Apr '03

22 Apr '03

We have one, it's overly prescriptive/restrictive and unenforced - if that sounds like the sort of thing you wanted, I'll dig out a copy :-) Chris -----Original Message----- From: Chris Davies To: suse-linux-uk-schools(a)suse.com Sent: 4/22/03 2:46 PM Subject: [suse-linux-uk-schools] Staff Usage Policy Not a SUSE or Linux issue directly, but do any of you have a Staff IT Usage Policy covering the Data Protection Act, security, email and Internet Access and such. We have one for the pupils but we want to introduce a sensible one for staff. Any suggestions? Many thanks Chris ____________________ Chris Davies Dir. of IT Epsom College College Road Epsom Surrey KT17 4JQ tel.: 01372 821178 fax.: 01372 821005 ____________________ -- 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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Staff Usage Policy
by Chris Davies 22 Apr '03

22 Apr '03

Not a SUSE or Linux issue directly, but do any of you have a Staff IT Usage Policy covering the Data Protection Act, security, email and Internet Access and such. We have one for the pupils but we want to introduce a sensible one for staff. Any suggestions? Many thanks Chris ____________________ Chris Davies Dir. of IT Epsom College College Road Epsom Surrey KT17 4JQ tel.: 01372 821178 fax.: 01372 821005 ____________________

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Resources
by Paul Taylor 18 Apr '03

18 Apr '03

Hi all: I'm sure everyone has seen this at some time and apologies if it is mentioned elsewhere but I think this is a useful selling point for OOo and related software which would enable teachers to quickly pick up and run with open source. http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/comm_invest/ogp/lessons/lessonsub.html Paul

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Smartgroup site
by Paul Taylor 17 Apr '03

17 Apr '03

Is there another Paul Taylor? I don't want to take credit unduly for the site so thought I would send this as an FYI to John. Paul

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Which e-mail list?
by John Ingleby 17 Apr '03

17 Apr '03

I posted a vote on the matter of "Which e-mail list?" on the Smartgroup site created by Paul Taylor, and you can see the results over at http://www.smartgroups.com/groups/os.education Basically, out of 11 voters: 3 want to use this SuSe list as the list for Schoolforge UK. 3 would like a new list @schoolforge.uk.org. 3 feel we should do both, with distinct purposes for each, 1 suggested we alias a new @schoolforge.org.uk list to this one, in effect merging the two. 1 suggested we continue with this list for now, while keeping the option open for a new list when we can see it's needed. The majority of voters are in favour of keeping this SuSe list as the vehicle for Schoolforge UK, at least for now. To get some ideas about the purposes for a new list, I've added an open-ended questionnaire. Please do take a look at the Smartgroup site, and add your feedback to the questionnaire. I'll try to summarise the results after April 30. With best regards, John Ingleby ************

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