Re: Announcing GuruFest: Come hear from OLPC experts, kicking off this Friday with Mel Chua

2009-03-09 Thread david
when sending out announcemnts like this, please remember that this is an international mailing list, and most people won't know where the places are. this announcement was better than most because it included a link to the school, but if you could include a few details (country, state, city

Re: [Sugar-devel] instructions for flashing SoaS on a XO

2009-03-09 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
2009/3/6 Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com: I tried it (from Ubuntu instead of F10) and it seems to work flawlessly!! I've documented what I did in the wiki: http://sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Installation/OLPC Thanks a lot, have improved a bit the Spanish translation, though help

Re: debxo ohmd testers wanted

2009-03-09 Thread quozl
On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 04:49:37PM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: Would you like to (co-)maintain the package in Debian? I'd be happy to sponsor uploads and/or co-maintain. I guess so, but I don't know what that requires. Comments on files I looked at so far: control:

Re: debxo ohmd testers wanted

2009-03-09 Thread James Cameron
Released new version of package with following changes: 1. built for Debian Lenny, no need to swing sources.list to squeeze, 2. starts ohmd on boot, no need to manually start, 3. fix a few of the packaging issues reported by Holger.

Re: [Sugar-devel] instructions for flashing SoaS on a XO

2009-03-09 Thread Bastien
Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org writes: http://sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Installation/OLPC Thanks a lot, have improved a bit the Spanish translation, though help is needed to further polish it. I just added a french translation. It would be nice to have a page on the SugarLabs

Re: [Sugar-devel] instructions for flashing SoaS on a XO

2009-03-09 Thread Walter Bender
+1 First on the list is the Downloads page itself. thanks. -walter On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 6:22 AM, Bastien bastiengue...@googlemail.com wrote: Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org writes: http://sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Installation/OLPC Thanks a lot, have improved a bit the Spanish

enabling security

2009-03-09 Thread Rodolfo D. Arce S.
Hello: I'm working for the paraguayian deployment, and while testing i got the security of a laptop disabled, but i can seem to enable it again to disable: i got a developer key, and on the ok prompt, i typed disable-security it all worked just fine, i did all that i wanted to do to enable: i

Re: enabling security

2009-03-09 Thread Mitch Bradley
I'm working for the paraguayian deployment, and while testing i got the security of a laptop disabled, but i can seem to enable it again to disable: i got a developer key, and on the ok prompt, i typed disable-security it all worked just fine, i did all that i wanted to do to enable: i

Re: Removing perl from the build

2009-03-09 Thread Peter Robinson
Hi Chris, I've gone through what's been pulling in the perl dependency and narrowed down the packages that are dependant on it to the following list. There's a number of easy fix ones and two that I need to dig further on. The first four should be a matter of just blocking them out of the

Re: [Server-devel] Wireless Cards in the School Server

2009-03-09 Thread Sameer Verma
On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 11:41 AM, Xavier Ziemba xavier.zie...@students.olin.edu wrote: I've been working on configuring an XS server for the Cambridge Friends School in Massachusetts and have a couple of questions regarding wireless networking and the XS server. Does the XS software support

Re: [Server-devel] Wireless Cards in the School Server

2009-03-09 Thread John Watlington
Unless your school is very small, using dedicated wireless interface in the server is probably not a good idea. We suggest dedicated access points as schools with more than 40 - 50 students will need more than one access point, and they are best spread out (i.e. not all the antennas are

Re: enabling security

2009-03-09 Thread Rodolfo D. Arce S.
It gives a Confirmation code mismatch error.. i've tryed with lower and upper case, just to make sure.. ok enable-security SHC836023B0 Confirmation code mismatch ok enable-security shc836023b0 Confirmation code mismatch On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 12:37 PM, Mitch Bradley w...@laptop.org wrote:

Re: enabling security

2009-03-09 Thread Mitch Bradley
Rodolfo D. Arce S. wrote: It gives a Confirmation code mismatch error.. i've tryed with lower and upper case, just to make sure.. ok enable-security SHC836023B0 Confirmation code mismatch ok enable-security shc836023b0 Confirmation code mismatch Type: ok .mfg-data and make sure that

Re: enabling security

2009-03-09 Thread Ed McNierney
Rodolfo - If you're not familiar with Forth and/or Open Firmware, you should know that whitespace and punctuation are important. Make sure to follow Mitch's directions carefully, preferably by copying and pasting from his message. The ok at the beginning of each line is the OFW prompt

Re: enabling security

2009-03-09 Thread Rodolfo D. Arce S.
The serial number was correct, so that wasn't the issue. I tryed the patch that you sended and worked perfectly.. would you be so kind as to explain what it did, i'm not so good with forth (yet), or perhaps if you could tell where to read about it greetings.. R On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 1:01 PM,

Re: enabling security

2009-03-09 Thread Mitch Bradley
Rodolfo D. Arce S. wrote: The serial number was correct, so that wasn't the issue. I tryed the patch that you sended and worked perfectly.. would you be so kind as to explain what it did, i'm not so good with forth (yet), or perhaps if you could tell where to read about it The patch works

Re: [Server-devel] Wireless Cards in the School Server

2009-03-09 Thread Dev Mohanty
I believe most AP's are plug n play on the XS, we'd tested quite a few including the Active Antenna's that OLPC used to ship earlier, which worked fine in AP/Bridged/Managed mode, though used to crash every once in a while and required a reboot. The interface labelling as Sameer pointed out was a

ActivityTeam meeting on Friday March 13th

2009-03-09 Thread Wade Brainerd
Hi all, We are holding our third ActivityTeam meeting this Friday at 17:00 UTC (12pm EST).  It should last 1 hour, and hopefully nothing terrible will befall us during that time.  Hope to see you there! What: Activity Team meeting When: 13 March 2009,  17:00pm UTC Where: irc.freenode.net,  

Re: [Sugar-devel] ActivityTeam meeting on Friday March 13th

2009-03-09 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 09.03.2009, at 20:41, Wade Brainerd wrote: Hi all, We are holding our third ActivityTeam meeting this Friday at 17:00 UTC (12pm EST). ... which is 1 pm EDT, for the locals: http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=3day=13year=2009hour=17min=0sec=0p1=0 It should last 1

Re: [Sugar-devel] ActivityTeam meeting on Friday March 13th

2009-03-09 Thread Wade Brainerd
Yikes, my bad. Let's keep it 17:00 UTC, I'll update the meetings page. On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Bert Freudenberg b...@freudenbergs.de wrote: On 09.03.2009, at 20:41, Wade Brainerd wrote: Hi all, We are holding our third ActivityTeam meeting this Friday at 17:00 UTC (12pm EST).

Re: [Server-devel] Apache proxy CRCsync

2009-03-09 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 12:33 PM, Alex Wulms alex.wu...@scarlet.be wrote: Another point is that I'm trying to see the bigger picture in this project. Is the idea that eventually the schoolserver will work as a proxy for the laptops, to accelerate access to (educational) websites on the internet?

gitweb-cgit

2009-03-09 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, http://dev.laptop.org/git/ now uses CGit instead of GitWeb. CGit is faster, has fewer features (no detection of forked trees, for example) but hopefully also has fewer horrific remote execution vulnerabilities: http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200903-15.xml

Re: gitweb-cgit

2009-03-09 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Mon, 9 Mar 2009, Chris Ball wrote: Hi, http://dev.laptop.org/git/ now uses CGit instead of GitWeb. CGit is faster, has fewer features (no detection of forked trees, for example) but hopefully also has fewer horrific remote execution vulnerabilities:

Re: gitweb-cgit

2009-03-09 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, I'm curious if you guys plan to be sad about the URL breakage this means, or just live with it. We'll see how loud any complaints are. :) (Also, if you use gitosis, do you have a post-receive hook that updates a gitosis list of repositories?) I neither use nor have

Re: [Server-devel] Wireless Cards in the School Server

2009-03-09 Thread Marten Vijn
On Mon, 2009-03-09 at 17:51 +, Dev Mohanty wrote: You could also use the APs in repeater mode with the same SSID, if you're planning to use more then one AP. no that is no very handy if want some performance, a repeater eats bandwidth from the AP. Best for performance - big

Re: [Server-devel] more 0.5.2-dev02 ejabberd testing

2009-03-09 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/3/6 Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org: I will continue testing by rebooting the server and booting all the XOs again, checking presence visibility, but right now they need a charge, so that will probably have to wait until monday. OK. Booted the server again, and all XOs, and they all managed

Re: [Server-devel] Wireless Cards in the School Server

2009-03-09 Thread Dev Mohanty
On 3/9/09, Marten Vijn i...@martenvijn.nl wrote: On Mon, 2009-03-09 at 17:51 +, Dev Mohanty wrote: You could also use the APs in repeater mode with the same SSID, if you're planning to use more then one AP. no that is no very handy if want some performance, a repeater eats

Re: [Server-devel] Serving 400+ students w/ a single central XS - ejabberd nightmare?

2009-03-09 Thread Bryan Berry
On Tue, 2009-03-10 at 09:58 +1300, Martin Langhoff wrote: On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 12:11 AM, Bryan Berry br...@olenepal.org wrote: I am worried about the XO's and not the XS. Now you're starting to see what I've seen :-/ I also worry about your APs and networking infra -- to support 400

Re: [Server-devel] Serving 400+ students w/ a single central XS - ejabberd nightmare?

2009-03-09 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/3/9 Bryan Berry br...@olenepal.org: We will have roughly 8+ AP's. We have found that off-the-shelf AP's can handle around 60-70 users.  But that doesn't still doesn't solve the problem of the XO's getting bogged down by tons of ejabberd chatter. DSD: do you have any ideas about this?

Re: [Server-devel] Serving 400+ students w/ a single central XS - ejabberd nightmare?

2009-03-09 Thread Bryan Berry
On Mon, 2009-03-09 at 22:36 -0400, Daniel Drake wrote: 2009/3/9 Bryan Berry br...@olenepal.org: We will have roughly 8+ AP's. We have found that off-the-shelf AP's can handle around 60-70 users. But that doesn't still doesn't solve the problem of the XO's getting bogged down by tons of

Re: [Server-devel] Serving 400+ students w/ a single central XS - ejabberd nightmare?

2009-03-09 Thread Sameer Verma
On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 7:04 PM, Bryan Berry br...@olenepal.org wrote: On Tue, 2009-03-10 at 09:58 +1300, Martin Langhoff wrote: On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 12:11 AM, Bryan Berry br...@olenepal.org wrote: I am worried about the XO's and not the XS. Now you're starting to see what I've seen :-/ I