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In response to: Logouts and shutdowns on the teacher stations

UPDATE: see edited version of an old post here:
http://hcmc.uvic.ca/blogs/index.php?blog=11&p=73&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1
which resolves part of this problem.

In response to: Setting up Dialang

Further to the initial install/config:
The app was working in some cases and not others. Stew figured out that it needed to write a number of files to (at least) the c:\program files\dialang\cache\ dir. Stew, Martin and I went around a second time, logged in to each machine and set permissions on the c:\program files\dialang\ dir such that any user could write to the directory. This needs to be addressed more effectively if this app needs to be included in permanent builds.

In response to: Installed VISTA and took it for a test drive

The only semi-interesting thing I have to add is that this is the first graphics card that I've installed that required a connection to the power supply. It apparently won't even work without the power connection.

In response to: rsync to idaho slow

The command I use on idaho to force the nic is:
mii-tool -F 100baseTX-FD eth0
where mii-tool is the app, -F is force 100baseTX-FD is 100 baseT full-duplex, and eth0 is the nic you want to force.
NOTE: mii-tool does *NOT* work on gigabit nics. I haven't used this but the man page for ethtool says this:
ethtool -s ethX [speed 10|100|1000] [duplex half|full] [port tp|aui|bnc|mii] [autoneg on|off] [phyad N] [xcvr internal|external] [wol p|u|m|b|a|g|s|d...] [sopass xx:yy:zz:aa:bb:cc] [msglvl N]

So I'm guessing that one could do something like:
ethtool -s eth0 speed 1000 duplex full
and get the same results.

In response to: Tomcat failures etc.

Thanks Greg. I think one change at a time is the way to do it.

It's really frustrating when things go like this, but at least we'll have detailed documentation of everything you do, through the blog.

In response to: Freewheeling media cart for labs

2 DVD players were purchased last week based on the specs you provided. Should be here shortly, though they were coming from Vancouver. I'll follow up next week.