[Lancaster] Re: the kitchen network.

[Martyn Welch]

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On Thursday 15 Jul 2004 14:19, Ken Hough wrote:

> Has anybody had any further thoughts re setting up a PC with CD burner
> at the Folly? Did anybody (eg Taylor?) order a CD writer?
>

A few, I'm trying to think of a way to allow CD burning to be easily 
accomplished without the user being able to "use" the mahine that physically 
does the burning. Something allong the lines of uploading an ISO.

> I suggest that we use one of the two available PII boxes, but with some
> extra RAM.
>

This I guess would be required if it was to be used as a normal desktop 
machine, with GUI et all.

> In the interests of simplicity, I suggest that this be set up with SuSE
> v9.1 or a similar recent distro, so as to have access to the likes of
> K3b and auto setup of CD writer (avoiding the need to set up scsi
> emulation).
>

Which I suppose is the way to go for now...

Have a look at KDE Kiosk, it's less an app than a framework built into KDE. We 
really need to look at this for the server as well as here. It allows 
restrictions to be placed on the users account with varying degrees of 
granularity.

Martyn

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Martyn Welch (welchm at comp.lancs.ac.uk)

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