Hi
I apologize, although many I am sure that there are those who do not care, that I have not been on the forums of late and my absence was exacerbated by the pandemic.
I had started a thread maybe a year ago about how Kubu has shined in the whole thing but cannot find it and that is ok.
So, a couple of comments.
As I said in the previous thread Kubu continues to shine and has done even more so in terms of:
a) dealing with a near constant barrage of ... shall we say... "required but unnecessary" viewings of mandated "types" of training. Almost all of these are government generated or hospital generated, but originated and mandated by the government "powerpoints" that are embedded in the colleges "training for teachers" part of the website.
I really do not know why but for some reason, working at home, using Kubu I am able to wend my way through presentations that are FLATLY STATED will take several hours, as much as up to three, but that people can stop to take breaks.
Well, there are multiple discussion threads about the things "breaking" "locking up", and what not and, although people cannot SAY it for fear of incurring the wrath of the powers that be, just do not work using their Windblowz machines at home.
I have kept my mouth shut, surprising! huh!? , but, working from home using my Kubu machine I zip through the things in maybe... 45 minutes.
So, Kubu is doing SOMETHING right!
ZOOM.
I average a student a week who is quarrantined, not because of exposure in the college, we have not had one recorded instance, but from a family member who was exposed etc.
When I am ZOOMING at home, using the Kubu machine everything goes absolutely fine.
But, when using the latest and greatest Win at the college, IN THE MIDDLE OF CLASS...a student WHO IS TO REMAIN OUT OF VIEW, for privacy reasons, of the seated students, the whole thing blows up because I get an e-mail, cannot not get them it is part of the system, and Microshaft just MUST GRAB CONTROL of everything and the e-mail pops up, overrides the ZOOM and my "powerpoint" presentation and displays the e-mall ALONGSIDE THE STUDENT's ZOOM(tm) IMAGE... in weird dual window setups.
MS has taken control of everything, I cannot minimize this or that, I basically must turn off the projector to get control of the apps and get them in their correct order.
This is not just me, it is other instructors also.
I was... the ...only...one who actually raised my head from duck down position and said... to riff on Oliver..."not MORE"... but ..."can't this be fixed?"
I continue to be amazed at how college professors, who are teaching critical, high tech classes and have very nice degrees etc. just put up with Windblows.
Anyway... the IT people finally said something like this.
There are three browsers on the computers, Chrome(tm) which is being pushed by the administration, I.E. ( tm ) under a new name, and Firefox.
I was told to open the e-mail in I.E. , open the .pdf of my presentations in Firefox, the college has dropped Adobe(tm) and the ZOOM in Chrome.
I did not say anything because the older folks who actually liked me running Linux are gone and are replaced by die hard Windblows people.
It seems to be that they are thinking that the situation will be kind of like a "container" and Windblows won't be able to blow up ZOOM.
I tried it once in the chaos of bad weather and students stuck at home and requesting a ZOOM literally the hour before class started, having to deal with fully masked, gloved students , in a reduced number of students in a seated situation while ZOOMING using one of the hundreds of newly, desperately fast installed within weeks hundreds of "Logitec (tm ) cameras on teetering tripods on the back edge of a desk that now litter the classrooms of the college.
If you saw that film about the weird silvery robot with big black eyes, forgot the name, that is what the classrooms now look like with the camera...
BUT...we are fully open, although with class sizes reduced from 24 to 16 so that is, all in all, a good thing.
It seemed to work, but, yet again, Microshaft had to stick its fingers into the pie and mess things up.
I can do the same thing from home, I get e-mails through Kontact from the college and it very nicely just pops a notification, ZOOM works flawlessly, I have a presentation open in a window and the Logitech camera working very nicely.
So, same setup except for the OS and Microshaft causes nothing but problems.
Anyhow,
KDE connect continues to shine when I have to do the dual password with an authentication number messaged to me from the college.
I hand out text summaries of my presentations for the students that are scraped from Impress and occupy maybe two pages of physical paper if I so choose or two pages in Canvas(tm) for the students to print off themselves while the other profs are literally printing, or requiring the students to print, REAMS of the huge "handout" pages that are not alterable and provided by the textbook companies.
The students complained so much that the college has automatically given them 500 sheets of paper credit on any photocopier/printer at the college to print the stuff of and that the students can stuff into their backpacks.
A FEW students have actually wised up and purchased small laptops to carry and view the stuff, because guess what... although the textbook companies SAID that the students could use "any device, anywhere" they LIED and LIED and LIED... their proprietary stuff, which is kept on servers at the company cannot be viewed, for the most part, on a tablet.
The "any device, any time" has disappeared from their descriptions when the students enter their portals.
So, this was just an update to remind people that Kubu really does get the job done in many ways in what has turned out to be a very trying time for all.
If anyone has any questions please ask.
woodsmoke
I apologize, although many I am sure that there are those who do not care, that I have not been on the forums of late and my absence was exacerbated by the pandemic.
I had started a thread maybe a year ago about how Kubu has shined in the whole thing but cannot find it and that is ok.
So, a couple of comments.
As I said in the previous thread Kubu continues to shine and has done even more so in terms of:
a) dealing with a near constant barrage of ... shall we say... "required but unnecessary" viewings of mandated "types" of training. Almost all of these are government generated or hospital generated, but originated and mandated by the government "powerpoints" that are embedded in the colleges "training for teachers" part of the website.
I really do not know why but for some reason, working at home, using Kubu I am able to wend my way through presentations that are FLATLY STATED will take several hours, as much as up to three, but that people can stop to take breaks.
Well, there are multiple discussion threads about the things "breaking" "locking up", and what not and, although people cannot SAY it for fear of incurring the wrath of the powers that be, just do not work using their Windblowz machines at home.
I have kept my mouth shut, surprising! huh!? , but, working from home using my Kubu machine I zip through the things in maybe... 45 minutes.
So, Kubu is doing SOMETHING right!
ZOOM.
I average a student a week who is quarrantined, not because of exposure in the college, we have not had one recorded instance, but from a family member who was exposed etc.
When I am ZOOMING at home, using the Kubu machine everything goes absolutely fine.
But, when using the latest and greatest Win at the college, IN THE MIDDLE OF CLASS...a student WHO IS TO REMAIN OUT OF VIEW, for privacy reasons, of the seated students, the whole thing blows up because I get an e-mail, cannot not get them it is part of the system, and Microshaft just MUST GRAB CONTROL of everything and the e-mail pops up, overrides the ZOOM and my "powerpoint" presentation and displays the e-mall ALONGSIDE THE STUDENT's ZOOM(tm) IMAGE... in weird dual window setups.
MS has taken control of everything, I cannot minimize this or that, I basically must turn off the projector to get control of the apps and get them in their correct order.
This is not just me, it is other instructors also.
I was... the ...only...one who actually raised my head from duck down position and said... to riff on Oliver..."not MORE"... but ..."can't this be fixed?"
I continue to be amazed at how college professors, who are teaching critical, high tech classes and have very nice degrees etc. just put up with Windblows.
Anyway... the IT people finally said something like this.
There are three browsers on the computers, Chrome(tm) which is being pushed by the administration, I.E. ( tm ) under a new name, and Firefox.
I was told to open the e-mail in I.E. , open the .pdf of my presentations in Firefox, the college has dropped Adobe(tm) and the ZOOM in Chrome.
I did not say anything because the older folks who actually liked me running Linux are gone and are replaced by die hard Windblows people.
It seems to be that they are thinking that the situation will be kind of like a "container" and Windblows won't be able to blow up ZOOM.
I tried it once in the chaos of bad weather and students stuck at home and requesting a ZOOM literally the hour before class started, having to deal with fully masked, gloved students , in a reduced number of students in a seated situation while ZOOMING using one of the hundreds of newly, desperately fast installed within weeks hundreds of "Logitec (tm ) cameras on teetering tripods on the back edge of a desk that now litter the classrooms of the college.
If you saw that film about the weird silvery robot with big black eyes, forgot the name, that is what the classrooms now look like with the camera...
BUT...we are fully open, although with class sizes reduced from 24 to 16 so that is, all in all, a good thing.
It seemed to work, but, yet again, Microshaft had to stick its fingers into the pie and mess things up.
I can do the same thing from home, I get e-mails through Kontact from the college and it very nicely just pops a notification, ZOOM works flawlessly, I have a presentation open in a window and the Logitech camera working very nicely.
So, same setup except for the OS and Microshaft causes nothing but problems.
Anyhow,
KDE connect continues to shine when I have to do the dual password with an authentication number messaged to me from the college.
I hand out text summaries of my presentations for the students that are scraped from Impress and occupy maybe two pages of physical paper if I so choose or two pages in Canvas(tm) for the students to print off themselves while the other profs are literally printing, or requiring the students to print, REAMS of the huge "handout" pages that are not alterable and provided by the textbook companies.
The students complained so much that the college has automatically given them 500 sheets of paper credit on any photocopier/printer at the college to print the stuff of and that the students can stuff into their backpacks.
A FEW students have actually wised up and purchased small laptops to carry and view the stuff, because guess what... although the textbook companies SAID that the students could use "any device, anywhere" they LIED and LIED and LIED... their proprietary stuff, which is kept on servers at the company cannot be viewed, for the most part, on a tablet.
The "any device, any time" has disappeared from their descriptions when the students enter their portals.
So, this was just an update to remind people that Kubu really does get the job done in many ways in what has turned out to be a very trying time for all.
If anyone has any questions please ask.
woodsmoke
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