[Server-devel] ? another OS for porting XSCE/IIAB

2017-02-17 Thread Tim Moody
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Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] Can I name my server something other than http://BOX.LAN ?

2017-02-15 Thread Tim Moody
I think the question and answer don't quite line up. What I name the server and the alias I give for the browser to find it are not the same thing. The host name should be set with either in the admin console or via local vars as the FAQ says, but the rest deals with aliases. Are we now at the

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] Linking (WiFi) SIP telephony and GSM networks

2017-02-11 Thread Tim Moody
Very impressive. Are the details somewhere? On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 11:34 PM, Anish Mangal wrote: > Hi, > > Wanted to share an update. So far, I set up asterisk on the schoolserver > to run a SIP telephony service on the wifi network where people can call > each other. > >

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] xsce on rpi georgehunt's base-6.2

2017-01-15 Thread Tim Moody
t;Destination directory /etc/httpd/conf.d does not exist"} ok: [127.0.0.1] => (item={u'dest': u'/etc/php.ini', u'src': u'php.ini.j2', u'mode': u'0644'}) failed: [127.0.0.1] (item={u'dest': u'/etc/httpd/conf.d/xs-console.conf', u'src': u'xs-console.conf.j2', u'mode': u'0644'}) => {"chang

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] xsce on rpi georgehunt's base-6.2

2017-01-15 Thread Tim Moody
xsce on rpi3 from scratch [trying on 2017-01-11-raspbian-jessie-lite.img as base] log of commands follows # # sudo apt-get update [success] # sudo apt-get upgrade [success] - I don't normally do this one # apt-get install vim git ansible [success] I follow George in using https://github.com/ti

Re: [UKids] [Announcement] Sugarizer v0.8 is available for your device

2017-01-06 Thread Tim Moody
Congratulations. This is a lot of progress. From: unleashk...@googlegroups.com on behalf of Lionel Laské Sent: Friday, January 6, 2017 3:02 AM To: Sugar-dev Devel; iaep; unleashk...@googlegroups.com; OLPC

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] comparison of XSCE 6.1 Admin Console's Utilities on Latest FedBerry/Raspbian OS's

2016-10-28 Thread Tim Moody
* Change Password: works (feedback missing if password change fails, e.g. if less than 8 characters etc) yes, a known problem and on my todo list * Display System Storage: doesn't show key partitions/space on Raspbian (compare "df -h" or results from a Fedora-like backend) is this

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] Re: Open issues and PRs on github/xsce

2016-10-20 Thread Tim Moody
I don't know what if any connectivity I will have before the 25th, so pick a time and I'll join if I'm able. I think these issues/PRs fall into several categories including ones only created for discussion and not actionable. To me the biggest question is what is for 6.2.

[Server-devel] lvm and raid

2016-10-15 Thread Tim Moody
a project using donated hardware has several 250g disks rather than a single 1 tb disk, so the use of raid (via bios) or lvm to create a single virtual disk is appealing. any experience with performance that should be considered? I am tempted to create physical partitions for root, swap,

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] Proposal | SIP VoIP server on XSCE

2016-10-14 Thread Tim Moody
I think it's a good idea. Are you thinking Asterix? Does it change networking or just sit on top? Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone. Original message From: Anish Mangal Date: 10/14/16 1:48 AM (GMT-08:00) To: xsce-devel ,

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] Proposal: f-droid on the xsce

2016-10-06 Thread Tim Moody
ists.laptop.org> Subject: Re: [XSCE] Proposal: f-droid on the xsce Do you mean the fdroid apk? I am talking about mirroring the fdroid repo on the server :) On Wed, Oct 5, 2016 at 6:01 AM, Tim Moody <t...@timmoody.com<mailto:t...@timmoody.com>> wrote: I have downloaded the mediwik

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] Re: Captive portal updates

2016-09-25 Thread Tim Moody
nt <georgejh...@gmail.com>, A Holt <h...@unleashkids.org>, server-devel <server-devel@lists.laptop.org> Subject: Re: [XSCE] Re: Captive portal updates On Sun, Sep 25, 2016 at 8:52 PM, Tim Moody <t...@timmoody.com<mailto:t...@timmoody.com>> wrote: In the radius+ solu

Re: [Server-devel] Captive portal updates

2016-09-25 Thread Tim Moody
. From: Anish Mangal <anis...@umich.edu> Sent: Sunday, September 25, 2016 4:07 AM To: Tim Moody; George Hunt; A Holt; xsce-devel; server-devel Subject: Re: Captive portal updates Hi, I wanted to ask whether a captive portal + radius server + radius server gui

Re: [Server-devel] Server-devel Digest, Vol 110, Issue 5 (Tony Anderson)

2016-08-24 Thread Tim Moody
I should add to Tony's comments that Sugarizer will be a standard feature of XSCE as of the upcoming 6.1 release, so the extent to which XSCE supports sugar will be dependent on the extent to which Activities are implemented in Sugarizer. This is increasingly important as we encounter

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] Has anyone else seen squid swap.state bloat?

2016-05-10 Thread Tim Moody
I don't think it is practical to have a separate partition and while http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/ConfiguringSquid#What_.27.27cache_dir.27.27_size_should_I_use.3F talks about a separate partition, it and other docs make it clear that the entire partition should not and need not be

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] Has anyone else seen squid swap.state bloat?

2016-05-10 Thread Tim Moody
I don't think it is practical to have a separate partition and while http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/ConfiguringSquid#What_.27.27cache_dir.27.27_size_should_I_use.3F talks about a separate partition, it and other docs make it clear that the entire partition should not and need not be

[Server-devel] rpi3 data points

2016-04-27 Thread Tim Moody
At the recent LinuxFest in Bellingham we had the opportunity to do a little capacity testing on the internal wifi of the rpi3. The LANForge system from Candela Technologies was used to create connections to the rpi3 and a maximum of 32 were made. We also did some throughput testing and saw 2.5

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] Re: [UKids] Raspberri Pi/clone(s) most ruggedizable for OLPC fieldwork?

2016-04-06 Thread Tim Moody
in Feb and am still waiting for delivery. > -Original Message- > From: Peter Robinson [mailto:pbrobin...@gmail.com] > Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2016 9:38 AM > To: Tim Moody <t...@timmoody.com> > Cc: xsce-de...@googlegroups.com; Adam Holt <h...@laptop.org>; se

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] Re: [UKids] Raspberri Pi/clone(s) most ruggedizable for OLPC fieldwork?

2016-04-06 Thread Tim Moody
Jerry and George spent a lot of time migrating legacy XS code from F18 to F22. There is more work to get to F24. I agree that we want to get there. > -Original Message- > From: Peter Robinson [mailto:pbrobin...@gmail.com] > Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2016 6:42 AM > To:

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] Re: [UKids] Raspberry Pi 3

2016-04-05 Thread Tim Moody
to help AT laptop.org <support-g...@lists.laptop.org>; Unleash Kids! <unleashk...@googlegroups.com>; server-devel <server-devel@lists.laptop.org>; xsce-devel <xsce-de...@googlegroups.com> Subject: [XSCE] Re: [UKids] Raspberry Pi 3 On Tue, Apr 5, 2016 at 10:49 AM, Tim

[Server-devel] Raspberry Pi 3

2016-04-05 Thread Tim Moody
For those who wish to experiment I have added several rpi3 images to http://xsce.org/downloads/xsce-release-6.0/rpi-images/ These are based on the rpi2 images, so they are 32 bit, but they are configured to use the internal wifi as a hotspot. The Raspberry Pi folks also claim the 3 is 30%

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] Re: [UKids] Raspberri Pi/clone(s) most ruggedizable for OLPC fieldwork?

2016-04-02 Thread Tim Moody
For xsce I'd start with f22. You can look at the rpi images on xsce.org/downloads Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone. Original message From: Alex Perez Date: 4/2/2016 2:12 PM (GMT-05:00) To: Adam Holt Cc: server-devel

Re: [Server-devel] XSCE 6.0 Released

2016-03-27 Thread Tim Moody
Please do yourself a favor and don't just grab an image. Have a look at the installation instructions first. https://github.com/XSCE/xsce/wiki/XSCE-Installation On Sun, Mar 27, 2016 at 1:47 PM, Adam Holt > wrote: Thank you Tim & All -

[Server-devel] XSCE 6.0 Released

2016-03-27 Thread Tim Moody
Years in the making!! A cast of thousands!! The School Server Community Edition (XSCE) version 6.0 is hereby officially released. Thanks to the many contributors, developers, and testers. In addition to releasing the School Server software, we have provided 'short-cut' images for several

[Server-devel] rpi - 2 questions

2016-03-22 Thread Tim Moody
The xsce rpi2 images are pretty much there based on https://www.kraxel.org/repos/rpi2/ But there are two decisions still outstanding. 1) fsck on rootfs Kraxel had in /etc/fstab UUID=1a57e552-0bae-4a16-9705-12d51e12db05 / ext4 noatime 0 0 but I have noticed error messages about lost

Re: [Server-devel] [UKids] Internet-in-a-Box 2.0 PREVIEW

2016-02-09 Thread Tim Moody
looks great. We, olenepal, are distriubting IIAB content(wikipedia, OSM etc) integrating with our offline e-pustakalaya content. Hence could we get the direct link to download such content seperately? Yes, many of the pieces are directly downloadable here, if you do not wish to order

Re: [Server-devel] [UKids] Internet-in-a-Box 2.0 PREVIEW

2016-02-09 Thread Tim Moody
e distriubting IIAB content(wikipedia, OSM etc) integrating with our offline e-pustakalaya content. Hence could we get the direct link to download such content seperately? Yes, many of the pieces are directly downloadable here, if you do not wish to order a disk: http://download.kiwix.or

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] Re: XSCE testing on NUC/el7 ; munin not working

2016-01-29 Thread Tim Moody
4:13 AM To: Tim Moody <t...@timmoody.com>; Jerry Vonau <m...@jvonau.ca>; George Hunt <georgejh...@gmail.com>; xsce-devel <xsce-de...@googlegroups.com>; server-devel <server-devel@lists.laptop.org> Subject: [XSCE] Re: XSCE testing on NUC/el7 ; munin not working

RE: [UKids] [Announcement] Sugarizer v0.7 is available for your device

2016-01-12 Thread Tim Moody
congratulations. From: unleashk...@googlegroups.com [mailto:unleashk...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Lionel Laské Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2016 8:07 AM To: Sugar-dev Devel ; iaep ; unleashk...@googlegroups.com; OLPC Devel

Re: [Server-devel] zims

2015-12-13 Thread Tim Moody
...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, December 13, 2015 1:07 PM To: Tim Moody <t...@timmoody.com> Cc: xsce-de...@googlegroups.com; server-devel@lists.laptop.org Subject: Re: zims https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/XSCE#zim_errors_in_xsce * No such file or directory causes "Failed" in zim_

[Server-devel] XSCE Network Testing

2015-11-30 Thread Tim Moody
Network discovery and configuration have become increasingly complex as we try to handle more and more cases. I have created a test plan for networking to supplement the general test plan for XSCE. There are probably additional cases that should be tested, especially in the area of connections

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] khan_assessments.zip download fails

2015-11-20 Thread Tim Moody
sce-de...@googlegroups.com [mailto:xsce- > de...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Jerry Vonau > Sent: Friday, November 20, 2015 3:29 PM > To: xsce-de...@googlegroups.com; 'server-devel' de...@lists.laptop.org>; Tim Moody <t...@timmoody.com> > Subject: RE: [XSCE] khan_assessments.zip dow

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] khan_assessments.zip download fails

2015-11-20 Thread Tim Moody
m; server-devel de...@lists.laptop.org>; Tim Moody <t...@timmoody.com> > Subject: Re: [XSCE] khan_assessments.zip download fails > > tmpfs is handled by a systemd file, think you can turn that off, but /tmp > won't auto cleanup on reboot, so there might be some crud that

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] [RFC] XSCE 6.0 test matrix

2015-11-15 Thread Tim Moody
What does install mode mean? (gateway, appliance, nw controller?) I added Number Eth adapters and other HW info what do L0 and L1 mean? From: xsce-de...@googlegroups.com [mailto:xsce-de...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Tim Moody Sent: Friday, November 13, 2015 10:49 AM To: xsce-de

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] [RFC] XSCE 6.0 test matrix

2015-11-15 Thread Tim Moody
test matrix On Sun, Nov 15, 2015 at 9:46 PM, Tim Moody <t...@timmoody.com <mailto:t...@timmoody.com> > wrote: What does install mode mean? (gateway, appliance, nw controller?) Yes I added Number Eth adapters and other HW info Great. I was actually thinking whether we sh

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] [RFC] XSCE 6.0 test matrix

2015-11-15 Thread Tim Moody
rver-devel@lists.laptop.org> > Subject: Re: [XSCE] [RFC] XSCE 6.0 test matrix > > > > > On November 15, 2015 at 10:27 AM Anish Mangal <anis...@umich.edu> > wrote: > > > > > > On Sun, Nov 15, 2015 at 9:46 PM, Tim Moody <t...@timmoody.com> &

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] [RFC] XSCE 6.0 test matrix

2015-11-13 Thread Tim Moody
good start. I would break out NUC and VM by OS (centos vs f22) also, probably need short explanations on some of the header fields https://github.com/XSCE/xsce-tests, most recently owned by George, should get into the picture https://github.com/XSCE/xsce/blob/master/docs/TESTING.rst

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] CentOS install - i3 NUC - Code to Inspire

2015-11-01 Thread Tim Moody
] On Behalf Of Tim Moody Sent: Sunday, November 01, 2015 9:51 PM To: xsce-de...@googlegroups.com; 'server-devel' <server-devel@lists.laptop.org>; 'Nick Doiron' <ndoi...@mapmeld.com> Subject: RE: [XSCE] CentOS install - i3 NUC - Code to Inspire What I see L3 has i

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] CentOS install - i3 NUC - Code to Inspire

2015-11-01 Thread Tim Moody
What I see L3 has its own style. There is nothing above L7. From: xsce-de...@googlegroups.com [mailto:xsce-de...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Anish Mangal Sent: Saturday, October 31, 2015 11:17 AM To: xsce-devel ; server-devel

[Server-devel] ids

2015-10-30 Thread Tim Moody
what is the source of these ids in xsce.ini and how do they differ from each other: xsce_commit = 6b02b1aad3718625e946d139d3df75bc40fbf5a0 xsce_uuid = ccdc0897-2d2d-49fe-8a95-7776479d322d product_id = 007B8D76-97D7-DD11-82FC-B8AEED71A692 runtime_commit =

Re: [Server-devel] automount

2015-10-30 Thread Tim Moody
what about using udevadm trigger? From: outlook_e5f197d31ca4c...@outlook.com [mailto:outlook_e5f197d31ca4c...@outlook.com] On Behalf Of Tim Moody Sent: Friday, October 30, 2015 10:00 AM To: xsce-devel <xsce-de...@googlegroups.com>; server-devel <server-devel@lists.laptop.org

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] automount

2015-10-30 Thread Tim Moody
I had it on good advice that mounts are not reestablished on restart. It makes sense as there is no physical event of plugging in the device. But because of your comment I just rebooted and the mount was in fact reestablished, so looks like it is not in fact a problem. > My gut feel is that

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] Re: Docker

2015-10-29 Thread Tim Moody
Subject: [XSCE] Re: [Server-devel] Docker Hi Pierre, We'd love to include our ansible progress within docker images. TK Kang and others have been a big proponent! I'm not qualified to comment however..hopefully Tim Moody and others can offer more precise suggestions :) On Thu, Oct 2

[Server-devel] usbmount

2015-10-27 Thread Tim Moody
I'm working on adding LibraryBox/PirateBox type functionality whereby if a usb in plugged into the server it is automounted by usbmount and if it has /share, /Share, or /PirateShare in its root directory a symlink will be created in /library/content/USBx depending on where it was mounted. I

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] usbmount

2015-10-27 Thread Tim Moody
On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 8:12 PM, Tim Moody <t...@timmoody.com <mailto:t...@timmoody.com> > wrote: I'm working on adding LibraryBox/PirateBox type functionality whereby if a usb in plugged into the server it is automounted by usbmount and if it has /share, /Share, or /PirateSha

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] usbmount

2015-10-27 Thread Tim Moody
On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 10:28 PM, Tim Moody <t...@timmoody.com> wrote:   From: xsce-de...@googlegroups.com [mailto:xsce-de...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Anish Mangal Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2015 11:18 AM To: xsce-devel <xsce-de...@googlegroups.com> Cc: server-devel <serve

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] can usbmount auto-mount USB drives?

2015-10-16 Thread Tim Moody
found docs, but on my fedora 22 nuc usb does not automount even though found and usbmount is enabled and configured for vfat file system when I remove, even after umount I get unable to read boot sector to mark fs as dirty I have tried two drives and both exhibit the same behavior

Re: [Server-devel] KaLite splitting collections into smaller bits

2015-10-10 Thread Tim Moody
We chose Early-Trig and the rest as our two divisions. I now have Eng Early-Trig downloaded and will tar and add to your collection. From: Anish Mangal [mailto:anis...@umich.edu] Sent: Saturday, October 10, 2015 2:07 AM To: Tim Moody <t...@timmoody.com>; A Holt <h...@unleas

RE: [UKids] ext2 vs ext4 vs exFAT for XO content SD cards?

2015-08-17 Thread Tim Moody
I agree that http://www.tvetacademy.org/ looks interesting, provided you can meet their staff requirements. In your case probably you can use a lot of their Eng materials so no need to shoot videos, etc. It would be great if you would contact them and see what develops. From:

Re: [Server-devel] [UKids] ext2 vs ext4 vs exFAT for XO content SD cards?

2015-08-17 Thread Tim Moody
I agree that http://www.tvetacademy.org/ looks interesting, provided you can meet their staff requirements. In your case probably you can use a lot of their Eng materials so no need to shoot videos, etc. It would be great if you would contact them and see what develops. From:

Re: [Server-devel] [UKids] Re: [XSCE] Tilestache on XSCE stack (OSM offline)

2015-08-11 Thread Tim Moody
This looks great and not overly complex. XSCE uses one convention that you are probably not aware of and that is that we put data in /library, in this case probably /library/osm or tilestache or some combination. Can tilestache.cfg point to a location different than the html and config files?

Re: [Server-devel] [UKids] Re: [XSCE] Tilestache on XSCE stack (OSM offline)

2015-08-11 Thread Tim Moody
it would take to do for the entire planet. I guess Braddock would be happy to give access to Jerome on hadron if he wants to give it a try. It is a machine with a 500G SSD and 32G RAM and an 8 core processor. On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 6:38 PM, Tim Moody t...@timmoody.com mailto:t

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] Changing the XSCE's hostname (or the address one enters in the browser)

2015-08-08 Thread Tim Moody
xsce distinguishes between hostname (schoolserver) and domain name (defaults to .lan). You can change the second of these no problem in the console. You can override the first in local_vars, but if you do XOs won't automatically find the schoolserver. (I have a machine that I named xsce.lan,

RE: [XSCE] sdcard for /opt and /library on xo 1.5

2015-07-15 Thread Tim Moody
-Original Message- From: Jerry Vonau [mailto:m...@jvonau.ca] Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2015 3:56 AM To: xsce-de...@googlegroups.com; Tim Moody Cc: devel@lists.laptop.org; server-de...@lists.laptop.org Subject: RE: [XSCE] sdcard for /opt and /library on xo 1.5 On July 14

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] sdcard for /opt and /library on xo 1.5

2015-07-15 Thread Tim Moody
-Original Message- From: Jerry Vonau [mailto:m...@jvonau.ca] Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2015 3:56 AM To: xsce-de...@googlegroups.com; Tim Moody Cc: de...@lists.laptop.org; server-devel@lists.laptop.org Subject: RE: [XSCE] sdcard for /opt and /library on xo 1.5 On July 14

RE: [XSCE] sdcard for /opt and /library on xo 1.5

2015-07-14 Thread Tim Moody
To: Tim Moody Cc: server-de...@lists.laptop.org; devel@lists.laptop.org; xsce- de...@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [XSCE] sdcard for /opt and /library on xo 1.5 G'day Tim, Thanks, that's interesting. My best guess is you have a bad connector and the 24-hour thermal test you did fixed

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] sdcard for /opt and /library on xo 1.5

2015-07-14 Thread Tim Moody
To: Tim Moody Cc: server-devel@lists.laptop.org; de...@lists.laptop.org; xsce- de...@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [XSCE] sdcard for /opt and /library on xo 1.5 G'day Tim, Thanks, that's interesting. My best guess is you have a bad connector and the 24-hour thermal test you did fixed

[Server-devel] sdcard for /opt and /library on xo 1.5

2015-07-14 Thread Tim Moody
I have been around the block with a 128G micro sdcard allegedly from Sandisk. I made various attempts at creating two partitions and formatting them ext4, some of which progressed at the rate of 10G/hour. I finally used dd to write /dev/zero to the entire device, which took almost 24 hours.

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

2015-06-21 Thread Tim Moody
impact). Got this idea from this post where : http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/SimonPoole/diary/34857 Should I be testing with XSCE 5.1? XSCE 5.5 beta? Should I get some hardware like a Pi2, or just get some VM? Any VM recommendation? Thanks On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 3:15 PM, Tim Moody

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

2015-06-17 Thread Tim Moody
countries at 16, other than the human knowing where they can and cannot zoom -- Nick On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 11:58 AM, Tim Moody t...@timmoody.com mailto:t...@timmoody.com wrote: couple of observations: As expected, the new tiles have a lot more detail. There are more levels

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

2015-06-15 Thread Tim Moody
with rendering the world at 10 and specific countries at 16, other than the human knowing where they can and cannot zoom -- Nick On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 11:58 AM, Tim Moody t...@timmoody.com wrote: couple of observations: As expected, the new tiles have a lot more detail. There are more

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

2015-06-14 Thread Tim Moody
, but I'll want to know more about the other ones. On Sat, Jun 13, 2015 at 12:51 PM, Tim Moody t...@timmoody.com mailto:t...@timmoody.com wrote: Thanks, Anish for an excellent start at getting this down on paper (so to speak). I think this covers things pretty well and gives us

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

2015-06-13 Thread Tim Moody
Thanks, Anish for an excellent start at getting this down on paper (so to speak). I think this covers things pretty well and gives us the necessary hooks on which to hang the details as we begin fleshing out solutions to the requirements you documented. Under issues I added one point about

Re: [Server-devel] Trying to access a school server from the outside world

2015-06-13 Thread Tim Moody
xsce listens on ssh, so if you expose that port externally you can access the server. probably you don't do this as we usually put the server behind a firewall. George Hunt set up an OpenVPN hub which some installs can use. Servers connect to the vpn hub and connected users can then pass

Re: [Server-devel] White list on xsce

2015-06-13 Thread Tim Moody
The whitelist can be edited in the Admin Console at http://schoolserver/admin. You need the xsce-admin user's password to login. Go to the Configure menu option and it should be straightforward. You can also turn Squid whitelist filtering on and off. Not sure what version you have, so these

Re: [Server-devel] Trying to access a school server from the outside world

2015-06-13 Thread Tim Moody
I should also have mentioned that we have started using TeamViewer on some of the servers which allows a session on the server without using the vpn hub. ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org

[Server-devel] help - centos 7.1 disk space on xsce

2015-05-30 Thread Tim Moody
Tried a yum install which failed because the cache had no space. df showed the rootfs was full. I removed a number of zip files and df showed 120G free. Rebooted, did some work including maybe 40M of downloads, and an hour or so later tried the yum install again and the rootfs was full again.

unlock xo 1.5

2015-05-27 Thread Tim Moody
I installed 32016r1.zd on an xo 1.5 (SHC049002BA). I sent the s/n and uuid from /home/.devkey.html to Adam and got back a develop.sig that looks OK. I copied that file to /security on a usb and booted. I also tried copying the file to /security on the xo. The xo is still locked. What am I

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] Steps involved in generating OSM maps for IIAB

2015-05-14 Thread Tim Moody
2. Engaging the OSM community in a more formal manner post that. In my limited interaction with the OSM community they were quite supportive and active with their help :-)--AnishOn Thu, May 14, 2015 at 11:11 AM, Tim Moody t...@timmoody.com wrote: I assume that with new geo data the index will

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] Steps involved in generating OSM maps for IIAB

2015-05-13 Thread Tim Moody
...@umich.edu wrote: Hi Braddock, Am willing to give this a shot. The map data on IIAB could do with an update. Let me know how/where I should access the machine. Anish, How can others assist you here? PS Tim Moody miraculously fixed OpenStreetMap city/town search on a Rwanda-bound IIAB/XSCE server

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] NUC with internal WiFi AP?

2015-04-24 Thread Tim Moody
I'm not very positive towards using a router as a school server due memory constraints, but rpi2 with a small wifi dongle or other such seems doable to me. Between George, Jerry, and Anish this is pretty well there in the current xsce master. Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2015 00:53:33 -0400 Subject:

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] httrack web based interactive site crawler

2015-04-23 Thread Tim Moody
My plan has been to add this capability to the admin console. I was thinking just recursive wget, but if there is something higher level that would be great.So far you can download and install zims and launch Kalite to get videos. I want to add the collections Rachel, IIAB, and Bernie (if Tony is

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] NUC installation troubles

2015-04-18 Thread Tim Moody
one question which Jerry would have to answer is whether you should have installed hostapd before xsce as I think xsce now does the install. From: xsce-de...@googlegroups.com [mailto:xsce-de...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Anish Mangal Sent: Saturday, April 18, 2015 2:20 PM To: Jerry Vonau

RE: [support-gang] XO-1 vs Sugar 0.104 performance, and swap to NAND Flash

2015-04-07 Thread Tim Moody
Thanks for wrapping your arms around this. And congratulations to those who made the curve head in the right direction. -Original Message- From: support-gang [mailto:support-gang-boun...@lists.laptop.org] On Behalf Of James Cameron Sent: Tuesday, April 07, 2015 11:47 PM To:

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] Re: iptables issue on fedora 21

2015-03-30 Thread Tim Moody
looks like a cross dependency between the systemd unit files: iptables depends on network and network depends on iptables. Waiting for Jerry to weigh in. From: xsce-de...@googlegroups.com [mailto:xsce-de...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Anish Mangal Sent: Monday, March 30, 2015 1:34

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] Re: iptables issue on fedora 21

2015-03-30 Thread Tim Moody
://github.com/XSCE/xsce/blob/8f5f875db10cb181f09a62670601c7da9f6fe37a/roles/network/templates/gateway/iptables.service va it's always _someone's_ error m_anish :) m_anish va, okay, it worked I think! (will test more thoroughly for other stuff) m_anish thx! On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 11:28 PM, Tim Moody t

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] Re: iptables issue on fedora 21

2015-03-30 Thread Tim Moody
then, right? On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 11:39 PM, Tim Moody t...@timmoody.com mailto:t...@timmoody.com wrote: sounds right to me. Here's mine (some commits before the current master) [root@xsce-devel ~]# cat /usr/lib/systemd/system/iptables.service [Unit] Description=IPv4 firewall

Re: [Server-devel] [UKids] Enthusiasm for a Centos School Server is wonderful

2015-03-28 Thread Tim Moody
At this time, and subject to testing, xsce can be installed on Fedora 18 (for XOs), 20, and 21 and on Centos. Any and all of these needs testing. Keep in mind that xsce is not necessarily bundled with one of these OS in that you can install the os and then runansible or one of the other

Re: [Server-devel] [UKids] Enthusiasm for a Centos School Server is wonderful

2015-03-28 Thread Tim Moody
and, of course, each application needs testing for functionality apart from did it install and does it run. From: Danishka Navin [mailto:danis...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, March 28, 2015 1:24 PM To: Tim Moody Cc: Adam Holt; unleashk...@googlegroups.com; xsce-devel; server-devel Subject: Re

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] Re: XS(CE) integration with other environments?

2015-03-10 Thread Tim Moody
XSCE tries to play in three distinct roles: 1) Gateway - the traditional XS configuration with an upstream connection, usually dhcp, and a downstream connection with dhcpd and dns on a fixed address with the name schoolserver. 2) Appliance – only an upstream connection, usually using dhcp, but

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] Rpi2 now available, and loads current XSCE master

2015-03-10 Thread Tim Moody
at 2:10 PM, Tim Moody t...@timmoody.com wrote: http://www.ebay.com/itm/SanDisk-128GB-Ultra-Micro-SDXC-UHS-1-Class-10-MicroSD-Memory-Card-w-SD-2015-/221700292717 I wonder what the top usable speed for an sd card is for this device. For such 128GB microSD's, we're now down from $29-shipped-from

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] rpi storage devices

2015-03-08 Thread Tim Moody
On March 8, 2015 at 5:39 PM Tim Moody t...@timmoody.com wrote: on the xo-4 and intel I use the following to get storage devices ls -lav /dev |grep brw| grep disk| gawk 'NR==1' |gawk --field-separator=' ' '{ print $10 }' but on rpi2 this yields is there a reliable algorithm

[Server-devel] rpi storage devices

2015-03-08 Thread Tim Moody
on the xo-4 and intel I use the following to get storage devices ls -lav /dev |grep brw| grep disk| gawk 'NR==1' |gawk --field-separator=' ' '{ print $10 }' but on rpi2 this yields brw-rw 1 root disk7, 0 Mar 8 18:30 loop0brw-rw 1 root disk 7, 1 Dec 31 1969

[Server-devel] external batteries

2015-02-27 Thread Tim Moody
I didn’t find the batteries I saw before, but this looks pretty good. http://www.amazon.com/AmazonBasics-Portable-External-Battery-Charger/dp/B00LRK8JDC/ref=sr_1_22?s=wirelesssrs=10112675011ie=UTF8qid=1425048233sr=1-22 weighs 8 oz. check my math, but at 10K mAh that should power a 3W 5V device

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] external batteries

2015-02-27 Thread Tim Moody
excellent, better than the one I found From: George Hunt Sent: Friday, February 27, 2015 9:56 AM To: Tim Moody Subject: lithium battery I'm excited about our discussion yesterday. Based on your research, what do you think of: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00F4U49M6/ From the comments

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] Rpi2 now available, and loads current XSCE master

2015-02-26 Thread Tim Moody
http://www.ebay.com/itm/SanDisk-128GB-Ultra-Micro-SDXC-UHS-1-Class-10-MicroSD-Memory-Card-w-SD-2015-/221700292717 I wonder what the top usable speed for an sd card is for this device. From: George Hunt Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2015 1:00 PM To: xsce-devel ; XS Devel Subject: [XSCE] Rpi2 now

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] Rpi2 now available, and loads current XSCE master

2015-02-26 Thread Tim Moody
Thanks. From: George Hunt Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2015 1:00 PM To: xsce-devel ; XS Devel Subject: [XSCE] Rpi2 now available, and loads current XSCE master Just got my second rpi, and discovered that they both failed until I used a more robust USB to micro USB power cable. It's pretty

Re: [Server-devel] [support-gang] [XSCE] Re: school server weekly mtg minutes

2015-02-19 Thread Tim Moody
The part I don't fully understand is that android (using chrome in my case) can find http://schoolserver.lan, just not http://schoolserver. Looks to me like the phone reaches the xsce dns server, but the server only resolves schoolserver.lan. -Original Message- From: Jerry Vonau

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] Banana-pi solar powered digital content library

2015-02-18 Thread Tim Moody
I forgot that the banana pi has a sata connector, or maybe it's the new model. too bad the raspi 2 doesn't. this project should give it a boost. I think raspi has more mind share. -Original Message- From: Anish Mangal Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2015 1:58 PM To: xsce-devel ;

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] Re: Search engines and local git repos

2015-02-17 Thread Tim Moody
content. Cheers, Anish On Wednesday 18 February 2015 12:27 AM, Tim Moody wrote: The problem with indexing is that it's a lot easier with text files (like html) than binary files like pdf, doc, zim, etc. iiab and kiwix can both index zims, which is how we search wikis, but a lot of our content

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] Re: Search engines and local git repos

2015-02-17 Thread Tim Moody
The problem with indexing is that it's a lot easier with text files (like html) than binary files like pdf, doc, zim, etc. iiab and kiwix can both index zims, which is how we search wikis, but a lot of our content is in binary files. A quick look at opensearchserver makes me think they mainly

os 14.1.0

2015-01-31 Thread Tim Moody
I notice that http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Release_notes/14.1.0 shows the latest builds as private. Do you anticipate a public release? ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

selinux

2015-01-27 Thread Tim Moody
I need to determine the state of selinux on an xo4 running 32014o4.zd. I notice that /etc/selinux/config does not exist. Can someone tell me what is the best way to determine whether selinux is disabled and if not if it is permissive? ___ Devel

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] copyright and licensing

2014-11-01 Thread Tim Moody
licensing decisions. -braddock On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 8:26 AM, Anish Mangal anishmangal2...@gmail.com wrote: GPL or AGPL? Can/Should we ask the IIAB maintainers and contributors for permission to license under GPL if it's not too complicated? On Oct 31, 2014 8:52 PM, Tim Moody t

[Server-devel] copyright and licensing

2014-10-31 Thread Tim Moody
I am starting to write larger chunks of code and wondering what copyright and licensing I should include. Any suggestions welcome. (In Canada copyright rests with the author unless it is relinquished.) Most XS code has something like: # Copyright 2007, One Laptop per Child # Author: John

[Server-devel] raspi project

2014-10-16 Thread Tim Moody
I personally have not had much luck with Indiegogo as far as actually getting stuff is concerned, but an interesting project if rather expensive. https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/pi-top-a-raspberry-pi-laptop-you-build-yourself Tim___ Server-devel

[Server-devel] RFC - command server

2014-09-29 Thread Tim Moody
Because I want to get to a place where running ansible and loading content can be managed through an admin gui, I have started thinking about a command server, a sort of callable job queue. I want to give certain admin users the ability to launch commands which run as root and may be

Re: [UKids] Announcing the development of OLPC OS 14.1.0

2014-09-27 Thread Tim Moody
A couple of questions: Do you do regression testing of the client side of XS functionality, such as idmgr registration, and if so, what server do you use? Do you think it is feasible to build a minimal Fedora 20 with keyboard, console on the screen, wifi support, and usb support?

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

2014-07-26 Thread Tim Moody
customized_build_directory to specify another directory asbuild base directory, for example /tmp On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 2:20 PM, Tim Moody t...@timmoody.com wrote: We switched xsce to using pip instead of rpms to install iiab in order to get the latest version. However, during the install

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

2014-07-26 Thread Tim Moody
I found pkg_resources.py and setuptools in /piptmp, which seems wrong, but I don’t know why it is there and how to cause it to install where I assume it should be in /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/. Tim From: Tim Moody Sent: Saturday, July 26, 2014 10:44 AM To: Internet In a Box Working

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