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

2009-03-09 Thread Sameer Verma
2009/3/9 Mel Chua : > Good point, David. In this particular case, there'll be opportunities for > remote participation for people who aren't in the Boston area - I almost > never give a talk these days without some sort of IRC backchannel. In this > case, I'll make sure a computer is open and on #o

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

2009-03-09 Thread Mel Chua
Good point, David. In this particular case, there'll be opportunities for remote participation for people who aren't in the Boston area - I almost never give a talk these days without some sort of IRC backchannel. In this case, I'll make sure a computer is open and on #olpc-meeting so that (my nick

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 gito

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: > > http://www.gentoo.org/securi

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 http://hjemli.n

Re: [Server-devel] Apache proxy CRCsync

2009-03-09 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 12:33 PM, Alex Wulms 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? E.g. > that eventu

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 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). > > ... which

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=3&day=13&year=2009&hour=17&min=0&sec=0&p1=0 > It shoul

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,  #sugar

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 b

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 w

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, M

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 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 s

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 wrote: > >> I'm working

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 wit

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 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 automatic > configuration of P

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 th

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

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:

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 wrote: > Tomeu Vizoso 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 t

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

2009-03-09 Thread Bastien
Tomeu Vizoso 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 wiki listing the

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. http://dev.laptop.org/~quozl/debian/ohmd_0.1.1-6.21.2009030

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: > Standards-V

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

2009-03-09 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
2009/3/6 Walter Bender : > 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 is needed to furthe