[K12OSN] Fl_TeacherTool 0.40 Released

[Petre Scheie]

Brilliant, Robert!  I love the new spotlight feature.  Now to try it out.

For the record, on my two-machine-test-setup, where one is the client and the other is 
the server and they're connected by just a crossover cable, the first time I started the 
broadcast tool on the server, as root, and with no users selected so the broadcast 
should automatically go to all clients (only one in this case) the window did appear on 
the client machine, but not on the server where it was initiated.  I chose 
File-Reset->Broadcast which killed the window on the client.  Then I selected the user, 
clicked Broadcast, and this time the window appeared on both the client and on the 
server, as it should.  I shut it down, unselected the user, so no users were selected, 
clicked Broadcast, and the window appeared on both the client and the server, again as 
it should.  So, something funny happened the very first time I tried it, but I was not 
able to reproduce the error.  My rule of thumb is that if something goes wrong once, 
make a note of it but don't worry about; if it happens a second time, then I start to 
dig into it. Many incidents happen just once and as such, it's not worth the time trying 
to fix something that never happens again.  I mention the missing window here just in 
case others see something similar.

Thanks for all your work on this Robert.  And thanks Eric for packaging it up.

Petre

Robert Arkiletian wrote:
> New site.
> http://www3.telus.net/public/robark/Fl_TeacherTool/index.html
> 
> New Features:
> 
> Multiple classroom support
> Spotlighting
> Broadcast refreshing
> Ubuntu/Debian + LTSP 4.2 support
> MAC address utility
> Hostnames instead of IPs
> Some minor tweaks/changes
> 
> Test it out. Eric built some packages here
> http://k12linux.mesd.k12.or.us/K12LTSP/testing/RPMS/
> 
> Please disregard the INSTALL file in the rpm. My new website now has
> complete documentation. Please inform me of any bugs.
>