What to do May 30th

I have to be over at New Tech High because I’m giving two student awards at the annual awards ceremony. So, please check which Xubuntu installations are complete from yesterday and try to add Xubuntu to more of the iPaqs. If you move the CD-ROM drives from iPaq to iPaq, please be sure that the computers are off when you remove them or snap them in. Also be sure they are in tight with a Xubuntu disk in them.

For some reason, installations go well on some iPaqs and not on others. Just do your best and restart the installation if it fails. Sometimes they work okay on the second try.

Remember to choose English, then Install Xubuntu. Also, choose Tijuana for the time zone and USA for the keyboard layout.

Remember to prepare the disk with Manual setting. Be sure to choose top setting and “Edit Partition Table.” With the free space make a ext3 partition with a “/” mount point, but save about 512 MB or more for another partition as “swap area,” which has no mount point.

Then continue with the installation. Name the computer xubuntu (no caps) and use xubuntu for the password. The final user name with be xubuntu, with the computer name xubuntu-desktop.

I’m asking Jean, Zak, Rikki, and Ralph to help be leaders. Please follow their instructions. Everybody else who isn’t installing Xubuntu, be good and quiet.

Good luck and be good to the sub.

Today’s assignment with a substitute

While I’m away today, I want you to write a 200-word report on streaming audio in general and Pandora.com in particular. Here are the instructions:

1. Post this on your 21classes.com blog as a new entry.
2. First, explain what streaming audio on the Internet is and how it works. Do this by researching on the Internet.
3. Then, give me the history and origin of Pandora, the Internet radio station. Also explain how it works, and explain what the Music Genome Project is.
4. Make sure that the report is at least 200 words.

If you finish early, work on your “Creating a LAN” assignment that the substitute teacher gave you on Tuesday.

Do a good job. I want a good report from the sub. Thanks.

Please write about Creating a LAN with Internet Connection

Your assignment is to make a new entry on your 21classes.com blog about “Creating a LAN with Internet Connection.” Please explain all steps and all equipment needed to put together a working network.

We’ve done it before more than once. You should be able to write this from memory. Work together quietly to help each other. Use the Internet for research.

Don’t forget to include:

1. All the hardware needed.
2. The network configuration needed to be done in Windows.

This is part of your final. It counts towards your final grade.

Be very good to your substitute and do your work. Thank you.