Re: [Server-devel] 1TB drive of quality open content on XO/XS--won't boot

2013-05-14 Thread Braddock
it is reacting badly to the mere presence of NTFS on USB media. -braddock On 05/12/2013 03:40 PM, James Cameron wrote: On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 03:44:18PM -0400, Holt wrote: Is there a way to boot a large USB hard drive attached to an XO? At our XS Community Sprint this week outside Toronto, we've been unable

Re: [Server-devel] 1TB drive of quality open content on XO/XS--won't boot

2013-05-14 Thread Braddock
Hi James, I flew home from the XS-CE hackathon yesterday so unfortunately no longer have an XO-4 to test with. So I can't create you a known-broken USB image of reasonable size. I formatted the 8GB USB stick to NTFS under Linux using gparted (so mkfs.ntfs I presume). The fdisk -l is below.

Request for mDNS name resolution from Internet-in-a-Box project

2013-07-31 Thread Braddock
appliance's MAC address, then use the IP address from the XO's browser. Not ideal, and I'm not sure they will succeed. A successful deployment of Internet-in-a-Box to a Windows-based school in Sierra Leone, on the other hand, was trivial. Thanks, Braddock Gaskill Founder, Internet-in-a-Box Project http

Re: Request for mDNS name resolution from Internet-in-a-Box project

2013-07-31 Thread Braddock
time an XO was upgraded. Not feasible. It needs to be done upstream. - -braddock -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJR+Y3IAAoJEHWLR/DQzlZuETIH/j+0Glx3vNu/wjlmb3oEyRVz

Re: Request for mDNS name resolution from Internet-in-a-Box project

2013-07-31 Thread Braddock
. If they have access to the local network they can do certain bad things. - -braddock Installing nss-mdns as an RPM during XO customisation is practical if you use the right customisation tools, which in order of complexity are: - unlock the laptops and use the xo-custom script

Re: [Server-devel] 1TB drive of quality open content on XO/XS--won't boot

2013-05-11 Thread Braddock
has an external USB drive here which DOES work correctly. Thanks, Braddock Gaskill At our XS Community Sprint this week outside Toronto, we've been unable to boot XOs with the 700+ GB drive(s) containing very polished open content provided by http://internet-in-a-box.org The XOs (eg. XO-4 etc

Re: [Server-devel] 1TB drive of quality open content on XO/XS--won't boot

2013-05-13 Thread Braddock
it is reacting badly to the mere presence of NTFS on USB media. -braddock On 05/12/2013 03:40 PM, James Cameron wrote: On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 03:44:18PM -0400, Holt wrote: Is there a way to boot a large USB hard drive attached to an XO? At our XS Community Sprint this week outside Toronto, we've been unable

Re: [Server-devel] A Path to Pathagar.

2013-06-04 Thread Braddock
I'm curious how Pathagar may be applicable to our Internet-in-a-Box (http://internet-in-a-box.org). Can it scale to the 40,000 epub books in Project Gutenberg? thanks, Braddock Gaskill On 06/04/2013 01:46 PM, David Farning wrote: One of the additions to XSCE 0.3 is the ability to add services

Re: [Server-devel] Server-devel Digest, Vol 76, Issue 21

2013-08-16 Thread Braddock
. This is a real disappointment to the Internet-in-a-Box project. I was really hoping the Utilite would be the perfect solution for our full dataset (which is too large for an SSD). - -braddock -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http

Re: [Server-devel] Problems with the School Server and IIAB

2013-09-05 Thread Braddock
very limited School Server experience I don't want to lead them astray. Any help appreciated. - -braddock On 08/31/2013 04:03 AM, Kishwer.Aziz wrote: Tony, Since my return from Pakistan in early August, the local support team has been struggling with getting the school server and IIAB

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] A couple of thoughts about moving forward.

2013-09-08 Thread Braddock
outsider impression helps alleviate some of your fears. - -braddock -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJSLMFSAAoJEHWLR/DQzlZu/QYIANABx31C2h0IdnMb4qcY1Mkl 4PpzBb32Gi/MDLsk196p0ZGdyMHZ

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] Fwd: [support-gang] XO tablet can not connect to XSCE server

2013-11-09 Thread Braddock
://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/bugs/2013-July/118727.html See also http://miketelahun.wordpress.com/2012/09/16/stop-using-local-as-the-top-level-domain-for-your-lan/ - -braddock -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net

[Server-devel] IIAB/XSCE School Server

2013-12-19 Thread Braddock
are playing with for School Server. Our ideas at https://github.com/braddockcg/internet-in-a-box/issues/83 - -Several more IIAB appliances will be heading to Haiti next month, I am building them now. - -braddock -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using

[Server-devel] How do the clients find a School Server in appliance mode

2013-12-30 Thread Braddock
of IIAB running on XSCE on something like a Cubox for all our IIAB deployments. I raised this issue on the OLPC devel mailing list last summer and it favorably received: http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2013-July/037559.html - -braddock -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] Re: trouble in paradise

2014-05-15 Thread Braddock
working, send me the output of the mount command. - -braddock Internet-in-a-Box Project On 05/15/2014 02:37 PM, Curt Thompson wrote: Hi Joanne, Sorry, I might not be able to talk on the phone today, but I'll try to help via email. I've included xsce-devel and server-devel lists in case

Re: [Server-devel] [IIAB] getting the archive

2014-06-01 Thread Braddock
-in-a-Box dataset to anyone willing to copy it and ship it back to me. We don't currently have a download site. - -braddock -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJTi52uAAoJEHWLR/DQzlZu1PQIAJmKu2Zj

Re: [Server-devel] [IIAB] iiab on xo-4

2014-07-25 Thread Braddock Gaskill
Hi Tim, pip builds its packages in /tmp by default. You can specify a different directory where you have enough disk space. See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10617198/pip-creates-build-directories pip install -b customized_build_directory to specify another directory as build base

Re: [Server-devel] [IIAB] [XSCE] RE: [UKids] Re: [support-gang] Taking OpenStreetMap Offline - DESIGN Call - Thur June 11, 10AM EDT / 2PM UTC

2015-06-15 Thread Braddock Gaskill
an optimization so that identical tiles are removed (think of all the blue of the ocean cover 75% of the earth). We use Leaflet as our javascript web front end, and it works quite well. -braddock On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 11:24 PM, Nick Doiron ndoi...@mapmeld.com wrote: I don't think there's any technical