Re: [Techteam] Weekend report - Mitch Bradley

2009-09-26 Thread Luke Gorrie 
Howdy,

A fun week but less exciting than Mitch :-)

I started off looking into the bug report from Quanta that
they were unable to fs-update over the network (got a hang part-way).
I couldn't reproduce this on my normal setup (cross-cable), but I had
occasionally seen funny network behaviour in OFW, so I went back
and investigated some that's funny.. stuff. Fixed (mostly Mitch) some
odd packet-loss behaviour from both USB dongles. I was about to
declare victory but my pegasus dongle has suddenly started acting up.
Some improvements overall, anyway :-)

Quanta's root problem, as Mitch said, looks like it was really CPU
overheating and nothing network-related. But it was useful inspiration
for digging in and fixing stuff.

More specifically:

* Added tcpdump-compatible packet tracing support to openfirmware:
capture u:\trace.cap
...
stop-capture
  (This is very handy for network debugging of all kinds.)

* (Mitch actually solved this) Fixed a problem where the first
  ethernet packet sent to the device would usually be lost, causing
  e.g. a ping timeout or a few seconds' delay to a file download
  starting.

* Fixed a couple of bugs in the Pegasus driver exposed by Mitch's use
  of ethernet loopback mode.

* Fixed a tiny bug in the openfirwmare 'pingd' ping-responder command.

P.S. I quite like this ethernet Media Independent Interface idea.
 Amazes me that the register-poking code to put an interface into
 loopback-test mode is identical on each USB ethernet adapter,
 because those MII registers are standardized.
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Re: Tentative Plans for Nepal's School Server and related infrastructure

2008-01-28 Thread Luke Gorrie 
Ivan Krstić [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 On Jan 22, 2008, at 10:28 PM, Bryan Berry wrote:
 We really need the incremental backup feature. That is a core
 requirement that came up many times in last week's OLPC Learning
 Conference.

 I'll see about finishing it up for you, then. Please ping me from time  
 to time to make sure this doesn't drop off my radar.

Just out of curiosity: would having the XOs periodically (cron)
rsync-over-ssh /home/olpc to the school server be hopelessly naive for
some reason?


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Hosting request: epaati

2007-12-18 Thread Luke Gorrie 
1. Project name : E-Paati (unix: epaati)
2. Existing website, if any : our blog -- relevant entries:
  http://nepal.ole.org/home/?q=node/73
  http://nepal.ole.org/home/?q=node/90
  http://nepal.ole.org/home/?q=node/102

3. One-line description : Squeak-based classroom learning activities.

4. Longer description   : E-Paati is a collection of learning activities
: written in Squeak/Etoys and tailored specifically
: to implement the official Nepali curriculum.
: E-Paati is a joint project between Open Learning
: Exchange Nepal and the Department of Education.

5. URLs of similar projects : Tell us if you know some! :-)

6. Committer list 

  Username   Full name SSH2 key URLE-mail
     - --
   #1 lukego Luke Gorrie   
http://fresh.homeunix.net/~luke/id_rsa.pub  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
   #2 surendra   Surendra Sedhai   (below) [EMAIL 
PROTECTED]

surendra's public key:
ssh-rsa 
B3NzaC1yc2EBIwAAAQEAx9Cr2tZ1XeE6JzAdVmm3mL8dCioUcLJoWfBuJQSJaYpignLcqunPu94O7mKvJMLp+KyKDzXh9bIIwPK/ZsMdUtcPHFzv0mphJhmnkuUJcZzuv7Nk7a9t+kka0I00ZKrGDqN195JiXnNf9IfBVS6IsNGzAVNQ7EMKP9PIB4dOmqnZ0g5HHPJGj4yI9L/xfuzh4nabgycUB1Xgv2FRhGDBKFi7lAJtmLg3W/n6z/A7SUaIjbJDRLDhdZZk41ZKXNA2RUN8QHdFkPLXRfMRsqlbCWHPXLCEY2+0t4B4S0aOdu68x72fD6i2ejp4AiUw5JHXDLWGyg0oMvZbXsp4H8JNyw==
 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

7. Preferred development model

   SVN repository preferred (as Etoys has). If this is not possible
   then we will use a server of our own for the repository. (We are
   primarily storing binary data - Squeak Projects - and we don't want
   to use GIT for this.)

8. Set up a project mailing list:

   [X] No

9. Commit notifications

   [X] No commit notifications, please

10. Shell accounts

   One shell account so that we can publish an activity bundle for
   Joyride.

11. Translation

   [ ] Set up the laptop.org Pootle server to allow translation commits to be 
made
   [ ] Translation arrangements have already been made at ___

12. Notes/comments:

   How to handle translation is under discussion with the Etoys guys
   so we're not requesting Pootle at this time.


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