ubuntu server notes

• installing web admin
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Perl tips

• located a GD module that would install just do at command line
  

  ppm install http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/ppms/GD.ppd

• Good examples at http://linuxgazette.net/issue83/padala.html
• also need to load GD:graph and GD::text
  ppm install http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/ppms/GDTextUtil.ppd
  ppm install http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/ppms/GDGraph.ppd

Ghosting dual boot

trying to ghost dual boot Tecra M2

• Ghost10 needs to be installed on windows before it can image a drive..there does not seem to be a way to boot it except for recovery
• Ghost2003 with external usb dvd seems to boot OK but hangs trying to get the MFT table
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Master Plan Notes

This is a reminder to put together a long term IM development plan.

• include using Basecamp as the project management platform
• establish development platform , and goal to move finished, tested apps to production server
• start developing some sharepoint expertise with long term goal of RFK wide intranet
• Pilot use of chat technology for non-emergency school-residence communications as well as replacement for several classes of residence logging, are transcripts good enough?
  
• Develop prioritized list of development projects
• Infrastructure for generic form based data collection to email to implementation agent, essentially single step nworkflow except that email can be combined with processing
• Infrastructure for multi-step work flow, essentially web based checklist augmented with links to forms based steps, whose steps yield results that tie back into the flow
• Prime candidates for collaborative data collection and reporting are
  

1. face sheets
2. incident reporting
3. BDM and Grades
4. take a look at external data requirements
   

Edubuntu dapper release is out....

This note will capture learnings from The new Edubuntu release

We are back -Fun with Dapper and X11

I have not been back here in a while....at present I am messing with
bringing up the lastest Edubuntu release at school....the flight 6 dapper drake release
http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/flight6

It looks really great, super integration with our windows network.
So far though I cannot get AVI's to play.

Had a really great vacation visiting Dianne's Uncle Dick and Aunt Suzie in Fort Worth Texas.....

IE, FireFTP and managing web based content

was musing lately about the aggravation of maintaining web content in todays ISPscape.

One of mine (1&1) has these really long FTP usernames constructed by concatening the already obscure base username with the ftp site name...so you wind up with impossible to remember access info like username: u12787652333teamsys password:yourpassword.

Now if you maintain things from multiple computers, its gets tough to sync all your access info for the various client tools you use...e.g. ftp, ws-ftp, etc. etc. ......

Lots of my web content is in nature of tech tips, link lists, cheat sheets etc. I would really like something like a index list of files at the site, inside my browser window, and a [ right-mouse, open-with-program] type of functionality that would bring up the file, and write it back on exit.

The ISP had this FAQ note about FTP'ing with Internet Explorer that stated that you could upload this way with ftp://nodename.com/ types of URLS. I have seen this before as a way of reading web files , but writing??? no way , I assumed the author was confused, but decided to try it. They never actually stated HOW to do it, so I thought , well just put in the access info and see if some new IE wizzy pops up. None did, as expected so I was about to leave when I thought to give the old cut,copy, paste paradigm a try.....it worked!!

Well thats nifty, I thought , but I detest IE on general principle, so I bet Firefox would support this as well but it didn't. Then came across FireFTP extention.

Could not get it to work from the address line as advertized but did get it to work from the tools menu. I was impressed with its speed and usability, integration with Firefox, ability to manage accounts etc. Operated very similar to my old favorite WS_FTP.

None of this solved my problem with access information portability, or gave me exactly what I was looking for , but got me closer.....

bye for now.

Here we go!

Well , nephew Tyler inspired me and I now join the blogosphere with my travels thru education. I am a new teacher , teaching computer and technology to special needs boys ages 7-18. After being in the computer industry for 30 years, the change has been something of a culture shock and I am struggling with how to bring the fruits of the last 20 years of technology growth to a cash strapped and struggling institution.

I have a number of on-going projects and hope to document good results here for technology teachers who might be in a similar situation. I am taking a good look at Edubuntu, a Linux distribution with a focus on third world eductational institutions. Though I am working right here in Massachusetts, the place where I work is 3rd world in all important respects, believe me.

Well by for now, and thanks Tyler...good luck in Australia.......