[Moodle] Moodle moot hardware qn..
Roland Gesthuizen
rgesthuizen at gmail.com
Fri Dec 19 20:43:16 EST 2008
We bought a USB powered CDROM / DVD for those computers .. did the trick.
Did you know that last week we build a computer up from this scrap for a
'needy' parent.
They actually rejected it when they saw that it has a CDROM and not a DVD
player .. geeezzzzz
Regards Rol
2008/12/18 Kent Beveridge <kbeveridge at stbc.vic.edu.au>
> Hi again kiddies..
> I got 2 acer boxes to bring with me..just made em redundant with our
> upgrades so I grabbed 2...they currently run XP so should be fine for the
> UBUNTU and MOODLE stuff.
> BUT.. they dont have a CD-ROM as are ex student classroom machines and I
> wont be bringing a monitor with me, just the boxes, kboard and mouse plus
> power cable...so will need access to a monitor somewhere on the day.
> Also, due to no CD-ROM, I vaguely remember someone saying they had a USB
> with the UBUNTU programs on them and had it set up so could boot from that
> USB, can we do that for my two machines on the day please, I have version
> 8.04.1 LTS Desktop Edition of Ubuntu, 8.04 Kubuntu and Edubuntu and the
> Ubuntu 8.04.1 LTS Server edition too. i will gladly supply a couple of USB's
> if that will make it easier. I can just copy via my laptop the ubuntu etc
> disks to the USB devices so we can boot from them - will that work??
> I wish to set up one box with the server plus moodle and the other with a
> multi-platform choice of op. systems ..1.windows 2. Ubuntu 3. Kubuntu.
> Why? To show it can be done...why else!! So if you wizzes out there know
> how, I'd be grateful and will see you at Ros's place when she eventually
> gives me the address, on the 13th.
> Cheers, peoples...
> KB.
>
> Kent Beveridge,
> I.C.T. co-ordinator
> St. Brigids Catholic Sec. College
> http://www.stbc.vic.edu.au/ <http://www.stbc.vic.edu.au/>
> Horsham Ph (03) 5382 3545
> email.. kbeveridge at stbc.vic.edu.au
> Hear about the bloke who struggled and fell? At least he gave it a go!!
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> From: moodle-bounces at edulists.com.au on behalf of Karen Webster
> Sent: Sun 12/14/2008 4:38 PM
> To: The Moodle Users' in Schools Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [Moodle] Moodle moot??
>
>
> I would like to come too. I am from Alexandra SC. We don't have Moodle up
> and running yet but have a part time tech (David Scott) who is very
> interested. I have also had it running on my laptop.
>
> Karen Webster
> Alexandra SC
>
>
>
> On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 1:25 PM, Roland Gesthuizen <rgesthuizen at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>
> I am happy to go with Ros .. looks like we are nailing down a date
> and venue then :-)
>
> Jan 13th is fine .. over the term break, the weekends start to blur
> with the weekdays and time runs slower as I let the sand filter through my
> toes and turn the next page of yet another diskworld book by Terry Pratchett
> .. (dreamy post-report-writing sigh)
>
> Regards Roland
>
>
> 2008/12/10 Ros Meadows <ros.meadows at gmail.com>
>
>
> Great Donna
> So either Mon Jan 13th or Tues Jan 14th (pref not the Wed)
> at my place in Bentleigh (there is plenty of room Roland!)
> Anyone have a preference?
> Perhaps 1pm onwards (I shall provide nibblies and
> drinks/tea/coffee)
> Projector and wireless or plugin to network all okay,
> although a screen might be handy. BYO lappie
> Roland if you need to bring kids if Linda is working they
> can have a swim.
> Possible activities -
> - Julian will talk via elluminate and can demo Moodle 2.0
> with Mahara, and themes and/or podcasting within moodle, while changing
> nappies!
> - we can set up some boxes if ppl want to get their moodle
> happening from scratch (BYOBox)
> - we can share our moodle setups and get help for things we
> want to be able to do (eg setting roles and permissions, installing mahara,
> whatever...)
>
> And the next week we can all meet up again at the linux
> conf!!!
>
> Those who so far have said they will be attending - Laurie
> S, Kent Mc, Phil B, Suz A, Donna B, Phil Pike, Roland, Julian (via
> elluminate) and me.
> Cheers
> Ros
> --
>
>
> Roslyn Meadows
> TONS
> ros.meadows at gmail.com <mailto:ros.meadows at gmail.com>
>
> Bentleigh Secondary College
> Vivien Street, East Bentleigh, 3165
> Phone 9579 1044
> Mobile 0412 614 062
>
>
>
>
> Donna Benjamin wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2008-12-09 at 13:52 +1100, Ros Meadows
> wrote:
>
>
> Perhaps somewhere between 12 - 13 - 14th
>
>
> Jan 12 - 13 - 14 'd suit me better (Jan 19-24 is the
> Linux conference)
> and I may be able to rustle up some other
> linux-perts to help with
> configuring servers...
>
> Great idea everyone!
>
> (Linux users of Victoria Penguin Picnic in Docklands
> on Jan 10)
>
>
>
>
>
>
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