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  1. Re: Terminal servers + remote login on same server?

    Thankyou @volkswagner, on further investigation DebianEDU looks near-ideal for my purposes, thankyou for pointing this out to me, I didn't know it existed before you mentioned it.

    I still don't...
  2. Re: Terminal servers + remote login on same server?

    Initially 7 users on about 4 machines (taking turns), but with the ability to expand to about 10 users on around 10 machines.

    We'll have a couple of laptops that will get taken off-site, but no...
  3. [SOLVED] Re: Terminal servers + remote login on same server?

    I realise this was posted in the wrong section, so I have reposted at this link, please respond there to keep the discussion in one place. Mods feel free to remove this thread.
  4. Terminal servers + remote login on same server?

    This is a very basic question, I just can't see a clear answer elsewhere.

    Question:
    Is it possible to have a single server both running thin clients (via LTSP), and allowing the same users to...
  5. [SOLVED] Terminal servers + remote login on same server?

    This is a very basic question, I just can't see a clear answer elsewhere.

    Question:
    Is it possible to have a single server running both thin clients (via LTSP), and allowing the same users to...
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    Re: How many of you completely switched to Linux?

    Haven't been on the forum for years, I've just quietly been using Linux and haven't needed to ask many questions. Almost every computer in our house runs Linux (mostly Linux Mint at present to be...
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    Re: Better GUI for R

    RStudio is excellent, thanks for the link scizmeli. I'd generally stick to a plain text editor + console, but the key addition RStudio makes to this for me is the ability to scroll back through the...
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    [all variants] Re: USB not recognised unless plugged in on boot

    For me the problem is with any USB device (including keyboard or mouse), not just a single pen drive. I wish it was that simple, then I could just buy a different one!
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    [all variants] Re: USB not recognised unless plugged in on boot

    I tried every different BIOS option possible relating to this, with no improvement. However it is something anyone with a similar issue should try, as it could solve the problem for them.
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    [all variants] Re: USB not recognised unless plugged in on boot

    I just tried every other distro I could until I gave up on the computer. I tried some old versions I thought had worked and found similar issues turning up too.

    I've moved the wife to my laptop...
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    [all variants] USB not recognised unless plugged in on boot

    I have an IBM ThinkCentre M51 8142, dual booting Ubuntu 10.04 and Windows XP. Ubuntu will only recognise USB devices that are plugged in when the computer is booted. These devices display correctly...
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    [SOLVED] Re: Purge F-spot configure files??? due to crash

    Solved, simple mistake: permissions error. Didn't have write permissions for config files due to my tweaking. Hopefully helps someone in future.
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    [SOLVED] Re: Purge F-spot configure files??? due to crash

    Very odd. I've just experienced similar behaviour - f-spot crashes for one user but not the other, when applying a tag to any photo. Linux Mint 8 (basically Ubuntu 9.10) and F-spot 0.6.1.5, so the...
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    [ubuntu] Re: stuck in 800x600 (Ubuntu 9.10)

    To make the changes persistent, check out
    https://wiki.edubuntu.org/X/Config/Resolution

    I added the following lines (generated as per your previous instructions) to /etc/gdm/Init/Default, just...
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    [ubuntu] Re: stuck in 800x600 (Ubuntu 9.10)

    Thanks for your detailed instructions, with those I was able to set a number of new resolution options and am no longer stuck on 800x600 resolution - I'm on 1280x960 now! This is a really frustrating...
  16. Thread: for loops in R

    by samden
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    Re: for loops in R

    Don't know C so can't help with the main query, but I understand lapply should be considerably faster than a for loop. Having said that I still tend to use for loops for nearly everything... I'll...
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    Re: problems with KILE and BibTeX

    I am unable to compile your document, as you have not specified what the file names of the documents you have supplied should be (although I can guess), and your code refers to documents you have not...
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    Re: R is a powerfull program, but hard to learn.

    I agree Gunksta that there are some advantages to GUIs - but note that all the advantages you mention about RKward are basically different ways of displaying the output of your console input. You're...
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    Re: Gnumeric vs OO.o Calc opinions

    I find Gnumeric is the best option for working with .csv files, it opens them easily for you to edit rather than having to go through an import process. However if you are entering a lot of data and...
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    [SOLVED] Re: Chemical Notation

    Note that the documentation link posted by Sanderd17 earlier was incorrect, the mhchem documentation may be found here:
    http://mira.sunsite.utk.edu/CTAN/macros/latex/contrib/mhchem/mhchem.pdf
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    [SOLVED] Re: Chemical Notation

    Sanderd17, that is a great package. I wish I'd found that one before typing my thesis. For that I defined my own commands as you suggested above, but manually coding the formula using the...
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    Re: Graphics driver SiS 630

    I have upgraded this same machine to Karmic (fresh install), and am having the same problem configuring the screen again. Unfortunately nothing I do to the xorg.conf file appears to make any...
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    Re: Plotting software options in GTK???

    If you already think QtiPlot and SciDavis will work, why not just use them?

    Quibbling over QT vs GTK seems irrelevant to the basic users you are considering here. Someone who has the time to...
  24. Thread: R Editor

    by samden
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    Re: R Editor

    euler_fan, R users come in all types. Sure there are the programming people who are familiar with computers. But there are also many who have just come from Windows, and expect to install an...
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    Re: Help needed: Maple launcher disappeared

    I have never used Maple before, and I'm not in front of my Ubuntu machine to check this now, so no guarantees. But try typing

    maple or
    xmaple in the terminal. If either of those starts it up,...
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