Ok, so the day starts off bad. After reinstalling the system because a mistake in the ldap.conf made it go whack, I needed to start over. But between me leaving the computer yesterday and getting back on this morning, someone helped themselves to the install disc. I mean, it’s free software!
But the computer is working [...]
Pulling Teeth
Little Progress
I’ve been working flat out for what seems like weeks with the big goal still not accomplished: Authentication.
Since the last post, however, I have:
-Enabled Compiz Desktop Effects, which moves processing of the window manager to the video card thus speeding up the system and making it all wobble
-Connecting reliably to folders. This is [...]
Well, at least something works
I just got printers up and running. With the Ubuntu Printer Manager, it was easy enough. But that was just a little break from the real task of getting Ubuntu to log in to that blasted Open Directory server! I still can’t get it to work. I followed instructions here
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=597056
but when I first installed the [...]
To Mount or not to Mount, sa c’est la question
Ok, so I finally put the final touches on the software for the client and we moved it to the library!
Now the one big problem arises.
How are we going to get it to authenticate? OS X Server is really hard to authenticate against with Linux. Moez (Probably spelled his name wrong. sorry), [...]
Up and running
So I’m finally posting this from the Ubuntu client at ACST. It’s not connected to the network yet, just running on DSL for faster internet. I just configured Edubuntu, Flash, MP3 playback, sound, internet, DOCX support for OpenOffice, First Class and a bunch of other stuff. I just installed the Dansguardian parental controls through Synaptic.
Everything’s [...]
Installation!
Well, Mr. Park set up the computer yesterday and called someone in to help me change the cable ends to work with the Tunisian sockets. And then we had to clean out the computer and install an extra 256MB of RAM so Ubuntu would work well. But it’s installing as I speak. [...]
Ubuntu How To website
Ok, so I thought that while I’m away from the Ubuntu EE computer, I’ll start on the how-to website. But I’m too busy to rework the code, so I’m going to borrow some of my old code from the internationalteachersinstitute.com website (and yes, it’s my code). I’ll rework that code into a website that reaches [...]
The Essentials
Ok, so while I’m separated from the computer over the weekend, I decided to get some software essentials down.
First: FirstClass, one of the programs that our infrastructure relies on. This was easy enough; the company provides a Linux client complete with precompiled Debian package.
Then I need to get OpenDirectory working. This will [...]
Press the on button and…
Nothing will work, because I forgot that to have a computer, you need to have something really technical called a power supply. yah. So I’ve added it to the materials list. But I did get the tower and monitor set up and plugged everything (but the power because there are no plugs near my workstation, [...]
Design Brief
Ok, so I’m here to setup one Ubuntu Education Edition client on the school network of the American Cooperative School of Tunis, in Tunis, Tunisia. Right now, the school uses a mixed OS infrastructure: Laptop, servers, and media computers that run Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows XP on desktops in the library. One solution [...]
