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Comment on Ubuntu 10.04 by dave

dave — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 12:30:50 +0000

Hello everyone.. If you have made the move to 9.10, let me know how you are getting on?
Dave

Comment on An implementation of Open Source software in a secondary school. by lidderdale

lidderdale — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:27:22 +0000

Hi i have just installed Mrbs i wonder if there is any way of importing the school time table into it. or at least an a&b week
any advise would be greatfully recieved

Comment on An implementation of Open Source software in a secondary school. by Chris Snow

Chris Snow — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 19:34:13 +0000

Its a work in progresss still Brian! Likewise Open handles AD auth very well. A gnome startup program points to a script which mounts a their share on the MS file server without having to sudo. Still looking at adding a printer; on and off. Hope to have it working for the next half term!

Comment on An implementation of Open Source software in a secondary school. by Brian Lockwood

Brian Lockwood — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 15:13:24 +0000

For the dual boot option you need AD authentication (not too hard) and hoem directories correctly automounted on the correct icon (i.e not via a connect tool operated by the user). That is much harder and a how to on that would be well recieved.

Comment on An implementation of Open Source software in a secondary school. by Chris Snow

Chris Snow — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 22:34:04 +0000

Out of the blue the head of ICT asked me to make each PC in one classroom dual boot. Can’t wait to see what the kids make of Edubuntu in September.

Comment on Ubuntu 9.04 released by dave

dave — Thu, 21 May 2009 19:37:59 +0000

Just a quickie, if you are dual booting with an ntfs machine, and you would like to mount an NTFS partition, Ubuntu comes with ntfs-3g by default, which is fine except it isn’t the latest version which has a couple of extra bits in which makes life a bit easier.

I would recommend removing the old one and installing from source to ver 2009.4.4 (I’ve installed it, so it must be easy!!)

Comment on Ubuntu 9.04 released by dave

dave — Tue, 05 May 2009 20:55:03 +0000

Just wanted to say that I have installed Ubuntu 9.04 and the wireless worked on my laptop (HP nx 6125 with a Broadcom BCM4318 wifi over a WPA link).

Worked with only a little tweak on the settings: Required that I do the updated over the wire, then enabled the restricted drivers.

Even fired up after Hibernate (had to select the wifi network once to get it to re-connect, but that connected no issue)

Only problem I’ve had is with the menu not allowing me to edit certain bits (it’s prob me as I’m new to Ubuntu).

Other than that, so far, so good.

Comment on Storage Networking with ATA over Ethernet by Tom Hill

Tom Hill — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 16:36:41 +0000

@Chris: The server certainly supports ‘many-to-many’ connections. That is, there can be thousands of devices exported from one single server (e0.1, e0.2, e0.3 … e0.4095) but I’m not aware if any ‘locking’ is involved in the use of multiple clients and one single mount. I would presume that you can do this, at your own peril. The responsibility is upon the administrator to use read-only mounts, or implement the shares in conjunction with a shared file system.

It’s particularly common-place to provide VLANs for security, and in the same way your Ethernet LAN switches could have a ‘SAN VLAN’ without requiring extra hardware. There are many methods for booting thin clients (using both Linux and Windows) from AoE targets.

The main issues revolve around the security and reliability. It’s essentially using an Ethernet network instead of a SATA cable..

Comment on Storage Networking with ATA over Ethernet by Tom Hill

Tom Hill — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 16:28:08 +0000

@Simon: OpenFiler runs on bare metal in the same way that my Ubuntu Server installation does.

AoE is a heck of a lot simpler than iSCSI, Samba and about as easy to use as NFS. There are drawbacks, but the simplicity and ‘lightweight’ approach of the protocol is meant to improve speed (no IP/TCP, etc.) so in a similar vein, AoE is much ‘lighter’ than NBD, too. Coraid actually sell AoE-based SAN solutions if you can find them.

I’m not sure if this was a trick question, but here’s a guide for using bonnie++

# cd /your/mounted/folder # bonnie++ -u root

Using the defaults, you should have something to compare at the very least.

Comment on Storage Networking with ATA over Ethernet by Chris Snow

Chris Snow — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 20:44:10 +0000

Very interesting piece!

Does the server side support multiple connection from > 1 client? My guess would be no. If so how could it be analternative to NAS or SAN? Would you see it in use as a network drive shared from a seperate NAS or SAN?

How do see AoE fitting into real world LANs?

Chris.