[Tech] New client machine up at Ascend

[Katherine Suyeyasu]

And thank YOU Abigail for spearheading this effort!

ks

On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 8:46 AM, Abigail Rudner <arudner at efcps.net> wrote:

> YEAH!!!! for the replacement machines which are coming on-line in Linus
> Lab!
>
> Thank you again Christian and David for your extra ordinary help on Friday
> of last week. and.... I could not be doing this without Simon, Sean and
> Amo!!!!
>
> It is exciting to to feel the power slowly building.
>
> Here's to a super week teaching and being with our young people!
>
> all the best~
> ar
>
> On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 4:38 PM, Christian Einfeldt <einfeldt at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> 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
>> "ascend" 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
>> student.  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!
>> --
>> Christian Einfeldt
>>
>
>


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ASCEND K-8 School, Assistant Principal
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