[RndTbl] Public access machine

[Mike Pfaiffer]

Adam Thompson wrote:
>     No, there's an elegant solution to this problem I just don't know
>     what it is yet.
>     -Adam

	If a shell script (or Peters idea of a Python script) can be executed 
at run time as root (no sudo required) a number of init scripts can be 
run at that time. The first one can run a notify after 25 minutes. The 
second could shut down after 30. A third could clean out the users home 
directory. Maybe in reverse order...

> How about [up to] 45 Neoware thin-client machines you could run off an 
> Ubuntu server? 

	Wishful thinking on the part of the guys in the lab. Myself included. 
Then we could also use a thin client server and get rid of XP (directly) 
from the class rooms.

> Would that be another way to solve your problem? 

	Maybe. I'll have to think about it. We'd have to increase the number of 
public access machines to a number greater than two though... That means 
another room and a supervisor.

> (Er... 
> is there any way I could wrangle a tax receipt out of this if I donate 
> some hardware?)

	I don't know. I'll have to ask. Best answer I can give you now is 
probably not but the possibility is there. Roy should be at tonights 
meeting. He is one of three people who would know. He talks with Alvin 
(the guy in charge) every couple of days. The CLL may run the public 
access program but they aren't the ones in charge of it. One layer on 
top of another and all that...

> -Adam
> 

				Later
				Mike