Re: Install Firefox

2013-06-06 Thread Basanta Shrestha
Hi Jerry this is just for the record on the list. It worked. Thank you very much. I now have firefox working. Now I need to make adobe_flash to work with it. -basanta On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 7:52 PM, Jerry Vonau jvo...@shaw.ca wrote: On Mon, 2013-06-03 at 14:29 +0545, Basanta Shrestha

School networks and electrical equipment damage

2013-06-06 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, Those of us familiar with setting up school networks (server + switch + APs) in some of our deployments will be familiar with the occasional loss of hardware, due to surges in the low quality electrical supply or whatever, even when the system is protected by a cheap UPS which supposedly

Re: School networks and electrical equipment damage

2013-06-06 Thread DJ Delorie
The connectivity engineer's best bet is that a lightening bolt landed at the school or nearby, and that this caused a power surge on the phone line. This surge passed through the ADSL modem, server, switch, This sounds remarkably plausable to me ;-) I've had hardware problems due to

Re: School networks and electrical equipment damage

2013-06-06 Thread Jon Nettleton
On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 9:58 PM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: Hi, Those of us familiar with setting up school networks (server + switch + APs) in some of our deployments will be familiar with the occasional loss of hardware, due to surges in the low quality electrical supply or

Re: School networks and electrical equipment damage

2013-06-06 Thread Hal Murray
d...@laptop.org said: I have seen that some UPSs (unfortunately not these ones) allow a phone line to be passed through them, supposedly offering some protection. Would such a system protect against a lightening bolt, assuming thats what happened here? Surge suppressor is the buzzword you are

Re: School networks and electrical equipment damage

2013-06-06 Thread Walter Bender
On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 5:54 PM, Hal Murray hmur...@megapathdsl.net wrote: d...@laptop.org said: I have seen that some UPSs (unfortunately not these ones) allow a phone line to be passed through them, supposedly offering some protection. Would such a system protect against a lightening bolt,

Re: School networks and electrical equipment damage

2013-06-06 Thread James Cameron
On Thu, Jun 06, 2013 at 01:58:58PM -0600, Daniel Drake wrote: And the most surprising thing - we had not even turned on the network yet, pending some electrical work. Everything was connected up except one crucial link - the UPS was not plugged into mains power. So all of this damage happened

ANNOUNCEMENT XSCE 0.3 Final Release

2013-06-06 Thread George Hunt
After three months of hard work and three weeks of working out the kinks in the release process, XSCE 0.3 is ready for its final release. We went conservative this release. Emphasis on stability meant less time for new features. * XSCE now runs on the XO-1.5,XO-1.75 and XO-4. * Modular

School networks and electrical equipment damage

2013-06-06 Thread T Gillett
Hi All As James has pointed out, there are many ways to fry a network. But having a telephone line connected to a modem which is in turn connected to LAN cables is one of the most problematic arrangements. I used to work for a telco where one of our jobs was providing phone services into power

Re: School networks and electrical equipment damage

2013-06-06 Thread John Watlington
On Jun 6, 2013, at 3:58 PM, Daniel Drake wrote: Those of us familiar with setting up school networks (server + switch + APs) in some of our deployments will be familiar with the occasional loss of hardware, due to surges in the low quality electrical supply or whatever, even when the system

Re: [support-gang] ANNOUNCEMENT XSCE 0.3 Final Release

2013-06-06 Thread tkkang
Good news indeed and my appreciation to all the hard work the XSCE team have put into. I recently installed R2 on SD a card for XO 1.75 (512 Mib) with 3 APs. It seems to be working fine with 30 XO-1s connected via different AP. Registration went well, ejabberdctl displayed registered users,

Re: School networks and electrical equipment damage

2013-06-06 Thread John Watlington
I considered sources such as James' theory, as well as someone connecting one of the ethernet cables to line voltage, and neither accounted for the level of damage you described. But I can't agree more with James' point about building from the ground up. The first thing we used to wire up in a

[Server-devel] School networks and electrical equipment damage

2013-06-06 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, Those of us familiar with setting up school networks (server + switch + APs) in some of our deployments will be familiar with the occasional loss of hardware, due to surges in the low quality electrical supply or whatever, even when the system is protected by a cheap UPS which supposedly

Re: [Server-devel] School networks and electrical equipment damage

2013-06-06 Thread James Cameron
On Thu, Jun 06, 2013 at 01:58:58PM -0600, Daniel Drake wrote: And the most surprising thing - we had not even turned on the network yet, pending some electrical work. Everything was connected up except one crucial link - the UPS was not plugged into mains power. So all of this damage happened

Re: [Server-devel] School networks and electrical equipment damage

2013-06-06 Thread John Watlington
On Jun 6, 2013, at 3:58 PM, Daniel Drake wrote: Those of us familiar with setting up school networks (server + switch + APs) in some of our deployments will be familiar with the occasional loss of hardware, due to surges in the low quality electrical supply or whatever, even when the system

Re: [Server-devel] [support-gang] ANNOUNCEMENT XSCE 0.3 Final Release

2013-06-06 Thread tkkang
Good news indeed and my appreciation to all the hard work the XSCE team have put into. I recently installed R2 on SD a card for XO 1.75 (512 Mib) with 3 APs. It seems to be working fine with 30 XO-1s connected via different AP. Registration went well, ejabberdctl displayed registered users,