Re: [Visualpython-users] Problem installing on WinXP SP2

[Martin G. <mar...@co...>]

Joe,
  How tightly locked-down is your computer lab? In particular,  I'm wondering 
whether a live-cd solution could work for you.   Now that vpython is in 
Debian, building a custom live-cd should be relatively straightforward, 
starting from Knoppix or morphix or ubuntu. 
  If anyone's already built one, please speak up!  (I don't recall mention of 
one on this list.)
--Marty
On Thursday 12 May 2005 09:27 am, Joe Heafner wrote:
> On May 12, 2005, at 9:23 AM, Bruce Sherwood wrote:
> > It shouldn't matter that you have other versions of Python present; I
> > have Python 2.3 on my machine as well as Python 2.4 and haven't seen
> > such a problem.
> ....
>
> I have similar problems with installing Python and VPython on my lab
> computers running Win2000. Our IT guys don't give faculty admin
> privileges on our lab machines. I can't install either Python or
> VPython correctly and IDLE will not run without admin privileges.
> They've set up a hack using something called "tcqrunas" to make it run
> but it still doesn't work correctly. Specifically, IDLE doesn't know
> where any VPython programs are and the default save directory was at
> one time visible to the entire network. In one class students were
> unknowingly overwriting each other's programs by saving their own
> programs with the same name. Changes were showing up without
> explanation! Our IT guys either can't or won't fix it. So much for
> competence.
>
> Cheers,
> Joe Heafner -- Astronomy/Physics Instructor (by some definitions)
>
>
>
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