<div>On 8/18/06, Henry Hartley <<a href="mailto:henryhartley@westat.com">henryhartley@westat.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> I recently met with the technology guy at my daughter's school. He's not really a Linux person but has no real beef with it. He's just not needed it for much up to now. He does use Linux for a proxy server and running DansGuardian so he's not averse to using it where it suits him. He's also got an engineering degree from MIT so I'm guessing he's pretty bright. The school is in transition right now, having moved out (in the summer of 2005 after 16 years) of a rented location into two temporary locations (one church for the elementary school, another for the middle and high school). The school has purchased 60 acres and hopes to be moving into their new facility by January, 2008 (although it may not happen before the following summer). One topic of our conversation was K12LTSP. Currently, the school relies almost entirely on wireless networking because of the nature of the facility. Plans for the new facility, however, do include network cabling. There is something of a lab right now but it is basically laptop computers that share storage space on a network server. Windows, naturally. I gave a brief overview of K12LTSP, as best I could. He had a few questions and I thought I'd start with this one. Actually, after this, I may simply suggest he join the list and ask for himself, since he'll be in a better position to ask the right questions. Sometimes, when students are using his lab computers, he wants them to have internet access, so they can do research. Other times, he wants them to NOT have internet access, mostly because he wants them focused on what they are doing. No point in tempting teens. He wondered if it would be possible to schedule this sort of thing centrally, either by class, by student, or by hardware. That is, let's say he has two carts of computers which can roam to the various classrooms. From 8:30 to noon, he wants one cart to have internet access and the other not to. Form noon to 3, they both should. Or, from 8:30 to 10:00, the students in this class have internet access, this other class does not. That sort of thing. Is that something that's hard, easy, or just too much of a headache to deal with?</blockquote><div> Not sure how well k12ltsp would work in a wireless situation. Maybe someone else can answer that. But as long as you don't have /home mounted nfs. You can simply issue the command #ifdown eth1 No internet. #ifup eth1 Internet is back. It's that easy. I do it all the time to prevent kids from getting distracted while I am lecturing. You can put it in a cron job or do it manually, whatever. </div> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">-- Henry _______________________________________________ K12OSN mailing list <a href="mailto:K12OSN@redhat.com">K12OSN@redhat.com</a> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn</a> For more info see <<a href="http://www.k12os.org"> http://www.k12os.org</a>> </blockquote></div> -- Robert Arkiletian Eric Hamber Secondary, Vancouver, Canada Fl_TeacherTool <a href="http://www3.telus.net/public/robark/Fl_TeacherTool/"> http://www3.telus.net/public/robark/Fl_TeacherTool/</a> C++ GUI tutorial <a href="http://www3.telus.net/public/robark/">http://www3.telus.net/public/robark/</a>