[K12OSN] Opinions on a Forum

[Les Mikesell]

On Mon, 2006-11-13 at 20:24, Sudev Barar wrote:
> On 14/11/06, Les Mikesell <les at futuresource.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2006-11-13 at 15:15 -0600, Petre Scheie wrote:
> > > Yes, I wish the k12ltsp wiki had a *prominent* link right on the first page of
> > > k12ltsp.org. OTOH, Ubuntu has Canonical driving it; k12ltsp just has...us. ;-)
> >
> > I think it would be even better if www.k12ltsp.org went directly to the
> 
> [SNIP]
> 
> My $0.02 worth - No
> Broadcasts, like mailing list, is much better in increasing knowledge
> as it also brings to me issues that may not be on fire today but could
> be a situation in future or a trend that I am not even aware of.

The combination is even better when things that come up and
are answered on the list are summarized on the wiki for
easier reference.

> For example I just am replaying mails on this list on backup's and
> trying to see if backuppc offers better user control without involving
> IT support like we have to using rsync...and so on.

It does, but you can only map machines to 'owners' who are
allowed to access the backups of their own machines through
the web interface.  It doesn't go user level on multiuser
machines, although I suppose you could use the alias feature
to make each home directory look like a different machine
if you wanted to go to the trouble.

-- 
  Les Mikesell
   les at futuresource.com