[luau] 9/10/2002 - MPLUG Status... HELP!

[al plant]

Warren Togami wrote:
> 
> MPLUG Status 9/10/2002
> 
> Warren is Busy
> --------------
> I'm really busy with school and there's tons happening below.  HELP!!!
> 
> Warren speaking at BILUG meeting September 21st
> --------------
> I've been invited by Big Island Linux Users Group to speak at their next
> meeting about our Linux for Schools efforts on Saturday, September 21st
> at University of Hawaii Hilo.  They will have some educators at that
> meeting too.
> http://cs.uhh.hawaii.edu/BILUG/
> BILUG homepage
> 
> Computer Expo is Canceled
> --------------
> I've just been informed by Dave Kobashigawa that Computer Expo 2002 will
> be cancelled.  Official announcement is due out soon.
> Crap.  There went our two booths for 5 days and two keynotes, including
> the "Linux for Schools" keynote that would have been to 200-300
> educators.  I hope we can find another expo or convention where we can
> exhibit and have that keynote.  Any ideas?
> 
> Two Linux Training Classes in Town
> --------------
> CompUSA and Terabiz locally have upcoming Linux classes for some kind of
> Linux certification.  I don't remember the details at the moment, I will
> need to dig those up.  Will post again later about this.
> 
> CompUSA "Linux for Business Demo Day"
> --------------
> Sunday, October 6th
> Ala Moana CompUSA Training center
> Jimen, Dan or somebody please summarize about what's going on regarding
> this.  Until somebody posts a summary you can read about the planning
> for the CompUSA Demo Day in the LinuxBusinessHawaii mailing list
> archives:
> http://videl.ics.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/linuxbusinesshawaii
> 
> IBM/RedHat meeting?
> --------------
> Dan, what is the status of these upcoming meetings?
> 
> Non-Profit Corporation Registration
> --------------
> Sorry Scott I didn't get a chance to call you yet.  Perhaps we should
> discuss on list about the corporation registration stuff (except for the
> board choosing) on list because the Articles of Incorporation will be on
> public record anyway.  We need some of the following:
> 
> * Choose the Foundation name.
> * Fix up our Articles of Incorporation
> * Pick initial board members
> * Some smaller details like mission statement will need to be written.
> I'm thinking about this.  Any suggestions?
> 
> Hawaii Linux Mirror situation
> ----------------
> UH got a bit angry with Videl today when she began pushing 50-70mbit/sec
> consistently all day due to the release of Linux Mandrake 9.0 rc2.  I'm
> forced to throttle Videl down to 10mbit/sec for now until I clarify the
> situation.  I suspect that I will not be able to get more bandwidth. =(
> 
> I am now hoping that I can get a mirror onto Oceanic's network in order
> to improve accessibility to the majority of us in Hawaii.  We were
> limited between UH and Oceanic by a 10mbit link.  I suspect that if we
> can get a mirror onto Oceanic's network we can have high bandwidth to
> Roadrunner people, and rate limited bandwidth to everyone else.  If
> Oceanic agrees to a Linux mirror, we will need to provide a server.  I
> will ask for donations when/if this occurs.
> 
> Are there any other ISP's or businesses out there willing to provide
> some Linux mirroring?  I can help you setup automatic mirroring of
> whatever you wish to mirror, and limit bandwidth utilization to protect
> your network resources.  Please let me know.
> 
> St. John LTSP lab configuration
> ---------------------
> In the past few weeks Wilson Chan and I have installed 12 LTSP clients,
> LTSP server and Linux firewall at St. John the Baptist school in
> Kalihi.  The firewall was rather complicated to setup with four NIC's
> and iptables configuration to handle Internet NAT and inter-VLAN routing
> between 3 VLAN's.  Big thanks goes to MonMotha and Ray Strode who were
> instrumental in getting those complicated rules working properly.  Can
> someone post those rules for public record?  It might be useful to
> somebody, even just academically.  This Firewall is also running Squid
> proxy cache and Eric Harrison's SquidGuard package for content
> filtering.
> 
> The LTSP server and thin clients are working but in need of severe
> amounts of software configuration.  Experienced Linux people are needed
> in order to prepare it for student use.  Several of the tasks pending:
> * StarOffice 6.0 installation
> * StarOffice profile scripting to get rid of the "Workstation Install"
> * Gnome defaults including:
> ** File associations
> ** Menu cleanups, make it as simple as possible
> * Mozilla simplification and privacy defaults
> * All of the above changes must propagate to all users automatically
> * Figure out how to make floppy drives on thin clients simple to use for
> end-users.  This one is a biggie, fairly difficult, but possible.
> I will post more details later.
> 
> Oracle server for Linux experience needed
> ---------------------
> Wayne Liauh donated a 1GHz Athlon machine to be Mililani's Linux Oracle
> server.  Unfortunately I'm too busy to work on it, so I'm giving all the
> parts to Elayne who will put it together and configure the server.  We
> will need help to figure out Oracle on Linux.
> 
> I think this box as only 256MB RAM.  We will probably need more RAM.
> 
> Mililani's Intel NetExpress Pro/100 problems
> ---------------------
> Mililani's Celeron lab seems to be working okay behind their Linux NAT
> box isolating their lab from the school network, but ultimately I'd like
> to replace their Novell 4.10 print server with a Linux server running
> Samba for their print queue (while adding file services.)  Main problem
> that I see in this is that we seem to be completely unable to reach the
> Intel NetExpress Pro/100 control panel through any TCP/IP means.  The
> diagnostic printout shows that it has an IP address, but it doesn't
> respond to any type of requests or pings.  Any ideas?
> 
> Computers Needed for Thin Clients
> ------------
> When setting up the St. John lab we figured out that the majority of the
> machines currently at Mid-Pacific are almost unusable for thin clients.
> All of the 60MHz and 100MHz IBM's from Castle & Cooke turned out to have
> one of two problems: zero PCI bus master slots or incredibly crappy
> video boards.  We also have a bunch of non-PCI bus master HP Vectra's,
> and several AT Pentiums of questionable quality.  In any case we can't
> use an ugly hodge-podge of machines like this for future thin client
> deployments... it is a maintenance nightmare even if we do figure out
> little hacks to make each model work.
> 
> We are in serious need of more sources of computers.  Please let me know
> if you find any more sources.
> 
> Dan, what happened to the CompUSA computers that John had?  We could
> really use those now.
> 
> Mid-Pac's KCC3 LTSP Lab
> ----------------------
> I need to redo Mid-Pac's LTSP lab server with the latest software.
> Damn, more work.
> 
> Mililani SunRay Lab
> ----------------------
> Currently Mililani's SunRay lab is in production, limping with an
> incredibly poorly configured CDE, StarOffice 5.2, Netscape 4.x and
> Internet Explorer 5.x.  I cannot conveniently install more useful
> software like Mozilla and StarOffice 6.0 because their partitioning
> scheme is a bit screwy, with almost zero free space except for the home
> directories.  The students currently have no convenient way of changing
> their passwords, which is a problem because their passwords are derived
> from their name.  Current software:
> Solaris 6 or 7 (?)
> CDE
> Netscape 4.x
> Internet Explorer 5.x
> StarOffice 5.2
> 
> A complete reinstall of the server is needed in order to more sanely
> partition this thing and guarantee that it is secure.  I want to upgrade
> it to:
> 
> Solaris 9
> Gnome2
> Mozilla
> Internet Explorer (whatever is latest for Sparc Solaris)
> StarOffice 6.0
> 
> They're letting me borrow a SunRay terminal in order for me to practice
> server setup at home.  I hope my UltraSparc 5 can handle this.  I may
> need some heavy Sparc/Solaris help soon.
> 
> The complete re-installation of their Sun Enterprise 450 server should
> occur either mid/late October or Christmas break.  I could use help then
> too in order to get it done quickly and properly.  I will post when that
> date is finalized too.
> 
> Mid-Pac's second LTSP Lab
> -----------------
> Mid-Pac wants to build another LTSP lab near the gym.  I hope we can
> scrounge enough computers.
> 
> Warren Togami
> warren at togami.com
> 
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Wayne and gurus, 

Some Ideas for the LTSP since the Expo is out. 

Small Business Hawaii is supposed to have a business/computer show this
fall.
Call 396-1724 to see what they are doing. Sam Sloam is the man.

Failing that we could have a school day ourselves for all the interested
schools. Maybe the great folks at Mid Pac would let us use their place
to hold it. It would certainly set the success and acedimic tone for the
gathering if we could have a gathering there where we have a Linux 
working system up and running.

We invite all the schools to come there. Then we can show and tell in
the setting. Some Saturday maybe.



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