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Deploying an Installation Package to Multiple Clients

Posted Wed, 03/07/2007 - 10:43am by crmanski

Deploying an Installation Package to Multiple Clients

When you have several machines on your network that need to have an bit of software updated it is easiest to install the software remotely. This article is going to describe the steps you can take to do this.

PREREQUISITES:

  1. You have an NT domain(Ancient) or Microsoft Active Directory

  2. The Machine that you are installing the software on are a part of your domain.

West Point Bridge Designer

Posted Wed, 03/07/2007 - 10:12am by crmanski

This software is an excellent free bridge design software. It runs on Windows PCs and can be downloaded from there website: http://bridgecontest.usma.edu/ This is the description from their site: “The West Point Bridge Designer 2007 will introduce you to engineering through an authentic, hands-on design experience. This software provides you with the tools to model, test, and optimize a steel highway bridge, based on realistic specifications, constraints, and performance criteria.

Setting Default Printers

Posted Wed, 02/21/2007 - 3:22pm by crmanski

Finding a way to have client default to the closest network printer was fairly simply after finding this post on the edubuntu mail ing list...

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/edubuntu-users/2007-January/000600.html

This post suggested editing the /etc/profile logon script and adding something like this...

Linux, Opera: Using Multiple Profiles

Posted Wed, 01/17/2007 - 9:00pm by crmanski
At home I share the same account with different people. They have their bookmarks, favorite sites, etc nd I have mine. For a while we were using Firefox, but now we are testing out Opera (http://www.opera.com/) as a web browser. One feature of Firefox is the that allowed us to use the same account was the profiles mode feature. Well, Opera does not have this. So to workaround this I did the following...
1. First I Created a default profile by opening Opera(In Gnome: Applications->Internet->Opera). This makes a folder in your home directory here: /home/UserName/.opera

Ubuntu - Updating Java Runtime Manually

Posted Fri, 01/12/2007 - 8:10pm by crmanski

I found that I was running a few versions behind on my linux desktop, but their was no updated package for the latest java. This is how I created a .deb package and installed it...