Re: announce: alternate power management

2009-03-15 Thread Scott Douglass
On Sun, 2009-03-15 at 00:37 -0400, p...@laptop.org wrote: scott wrote: 3. with the OLPC kernel and this olpc-kbdshim and olpc-powerd (which by the way are really realy nice, thanks a million pgf!) the XO suspends when via lid switch and the power button. great!

Re: [Sugar-devel] announce: alternate power management

2009-03-15 Thread David Farning
On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 11:37 PM, p...@laptop.org wrote: scott wrote:       3. with the OLPC kernel and this olpc-kbdshim and olpc-powerd (which by     the way are really realy nice, thanks a million pgf!) the XO suspends     when via lid switch and the power button.     great!  did

suspend/resume possible w SD boot?

2009-03-15 Thread Chris Marshall
I've been able to make my G1G1 XOs more usable by installing the OS and booting from an SD card rather than the internal NAND. Adding some swap helps alot too. However, it doesn't appear that the suspend and resume on lid close, etc. work in this case (presumably because the USB subsystem must

Active Antennas...

2009-03-15 Thread Sameer Verma
What's the status on the moratorium on active antennas? Can we request these for small deployments (40) ? Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Information Systems San Francisco State University San Francisco CA 94132 USA http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://opensource.sfsu.edu/

Re: Active Antennas...

2009-03-15 Thread Holt
Please apply here: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Contributors_program If you are approved, delivery generally occurs within about a week. Full paragraph responses are not required since you are not applying for laptops -- one clear single sentence or two should suffice for most of the 8 questions

Re: summary of current paraguayan XO OS customisations

2009-03-15 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 10:26 AM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: -bundles and activities http://wiki.paraguayeduca.org/index.php/Actividades_y_contenidos Browse-101.xo ... Yummy. Means that as soon as moodle is ready you can just deploy it and wham! Swift sign-on! - add scripts for

Re: Active Antennas...

2009-03-15 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 3:44 PM, Sameer Verma sve...@sfsu.edu wrote: What's the status on the moratorium on active antennas? Can we request these for small deployments (40) ? it's ok to request them for development testing, but for deployments... hmmm Depending on kernel firmware versions,

[Server-devel] slim PC

2009-03-15 Thread Sameer Verma
I haven't looked at the specs closely, but someone at our meeting today brought this up. http://www.amazon.com/fit-PC-Slim-Linux/dp/tech-data/B001L18ED2/ref=de_a_smtd Any ideas? Has anyone tried it as as school server? Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Information Systems

Re: [Server-devel] Almost-released: XS-0.5.2 -

2009-03-15 Thread Sameer Verma
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 10:02 AM, Sameer Verma sve...@sfsu.edu wrote: On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 2:45 AM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 7:46 PM, Sameer Verma sve...@sfsu.edu wrote: Installs correctly on my Fujitsu P2120 laptop this time around! None of

Re: [Server-devel] Almost-released: XS-0.5.2 -

2009-03-15 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 7:16 PM, Sameer Verma sve...@sfsu.edu wrote: Looks like a winner! Yay! And that was on your 586 laptop right? - How much RAM? - Did you use squid? cheers, m -- martin.langh...@gmail.com mar...@laptop.org -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions -

Re: [Server-devel] Almost-released: XS-0.5.2 -

2009-03-15 Thread Sameer Verma
On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 11:46 PM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 7:16 PM, Sameer Verma sve...@sfsu.edu wrote: Looks like a winner! Yay! And that was on your 586 laptop right? Yes. - How much RAM? 384MB. Didn't get a chance to see usage. - Did

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

2009-03-15 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 5:54 PM, John Watlington w...@laptop.org wrote: If you aren't going to place school servers in the actual schools, and insist on centralizing them, the hardware recommended by Sameer is a good idea. +1 -- also, Dev Moharty's suggestion is good: run one XS for each

Re: [Server-devel] notes on scaling ejabberd for the XO's

2009-03-15 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 2:12 PM, Bryan Berry br...@olenepal.org wrote: Here are some notes from a short IRC conversation I had w/ Rob Mcqueen, the lead developer of Telepathy Cool - thanks for posting it. Client code for Gadget seems to be integrated in the Telepathy new Sugar present on the

Re: [Server-devel] slim PC

2009-03-15 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 7:05 PM, Sameer Verma sve...@sfsu.edu wrote: I haven't looked at the specs closely, but someone at our meeting today brought this up. http://www.amazon.com/fit-PC-Slim-Linux/dp/tech-data/B001L18ED2/ref=de_a_smtd Any ideas? Has anyone tried it as as school server? Get

Re: [Server-devel] slim PC

2009-03-15 Thread Sameer Verma
On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 11:05 PM, Sameer Verma sve...@sfsu.edu wrote: I haven't looked at the specs closely, but someone at our meeting today brought this up. http://www.amazon.com/fit-PC-Slim-Linux/dp/tech-data/B001L18ED2/ref=de_a_smtd Any ideas? Has anyone tried it as as school server?

Re: [Server-devel] notes on scaling ejabberd for the XO's

2009-03-15 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/3/15 Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com: Client code for Gadget seems to be integrated in the Telepathy new Sugar present on the SoaS images. The server side -- the proper gadget code -- isn't on any XS, and I haven't seen or tested it (lack of time :-( ) Even if I had, it's a

Re: [Server-devel] notes on scaling ejabberd for the XO's

2009-03-15 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 11:30 AM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: So what does gadget do? Is there a new client side UI for electing groups? Good question. I think that - Gadget actually extends XMPP, so there are new XMPP msgs on the wire -- which means you need new code on the client