[Tech] New client machine up at Ascend

[Michael Paoli]

Sounds good!

I might suggest *not* sending passwords to email/list especially that is
or may be publicly archived.  In general best to not send passwords
in the clear.  In any case, for Partimus, and lab in school, that may be
of greatest concern for the PXE boot / build / install / etc. server - if
that fails for any reason, as I understand it, that leaves the school lab
relatively dead in the water - at least for network access beyond that
subnet/VLAN - until it's fixed or replaced ... whereas the rest of the
computers in lab are comparatively easier to replace and have less of an
impact if they fail.

references/excerpts (slightly redacted):

> From: "Christian Einfeldt" <einfeldt at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Tech] New client machine up at Ascend
> Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2015 16:38:40 -0700

> I have successfully installed Lubuntu from Abigail's Lubuntu 12.04 disk on
> a machine that I called partimus603309234, which is the name of our org
> plus the name of the serial number on the top of the machine.  I used
> monitor 14, which was donated by David Eisenberg, along with the
> partimus603309234 and 14 other machines and monitors (thanks, David!).
>
> I had an issue getting even a bios to appear on two of the other machines
> that I looked at.  I got no display at all on the other two machines.
> David Eisenberg had done some spot checking of these machines when he
> acquired them, so I am assuming that it is some operator error on my part,
> although Sean Castro was also in here yesterday looking at the machines and
> had a similar problem, so not sure what the issue is.
>
> Our primary goal at this point is to make sure that Abigail has a backup
> for the machines that are in her lab, so that if a client machine goes
> down, Abigail can simply swap out another machine.
>
> I don't know what your password schema is.  I chose to call the superuser
> "administrator", because I saw that on the machine next to me.  I chose
> [REDACTED] as the superuser password.  I created a student account, because I
> saw that account on a machine next to me.  The password for student is
> [REDACTED].  The machine's specs are documented on the lab summary google
> spreadsheet here:
>
> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1_s0E7w40zs80yZNrVRqupml6jqADKjD9XoJ3uFkhQMw/
>
> If you are on this email and have not been invited to the spreadsheet,
> please let me know and I will invite you.
>
> We are still working on a server, so that Abigail will be able to mass
> install over the network, and she will have iTalc and other network tools
> available to her.
>
> Thanks!