Re: Multiple Questions from a SysAdmin

2008-03-03 Thread Morgan Collett
Bryan Berry wrote: 2. Does Avahi work together w/ Telepathy (local mesh) and EJabber (multiple meshes) for the presence service? If so, how? There are two modes for collaboration: link local (mesh) or server (Jabber). Link local uses telepathy-salut, which uses avahi (multicast) to announce

Re: storing Activity parameters

2008-03-03 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 1:51 PM, Gary C Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm having some indecision about my own (very simple) activity state saving. Just had a though that may add another possibility to this thread. What if both journal and file-system were used to store the activity state,

Re: Multiple Questions from a SysAdmin

2008-03-03 Thread sulochan acharya
1. How can I cryptographically sign my own custom NAND image? We will need to do custom images for our pilot. For example, we need to include the Nepali activities we have built, Gcompris, and SocialCalc, that are not part of the standard build. The 6th graders at our pilot schools will

Re: [Server-devel] Testing 200 XO's in two weeks time for Nepal's pilot

2008-03-03 Thread Michail Bletsas
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 03/03/2008 02:38:00 AM: Questions: How many XO's can a single active antenna support? We only have two active antennas at the moment. The answer is always traffic depedent. Given the current status of the collaboration software on the XO and assuming that the

Re: Today's mesh testing.

2008-03-03 Thread Kim Quirk
Great! Thanks for the update, Chris. Kim On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 7:05 PM, Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Daf and I got the school server jabberd/shared roster working today. We connected/registered 32 laptops to it with mesh TTL set to 1 for broadcast, and they were all able to see

Re: Today's mesh testing.

2008-03-03 Thread Jim Gettys
Wonderful stuff! - Jim On Sun, 2008-03-02 at 19:05 -0500, Chris Ball wrote: Hi, Daf and I got the school server jabberd/shared roster working today. We connected/registered 32 laptops to it with mesh TTL set to 1 for broadcast, and they were all able to see and join a

Re: [sugar] Journal: two quick suggestions

2008-03-03 Thread Eben Eliason
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 11:56 AM, Tomeu Vizoso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 5:17 PM, Christoph Derndorfer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One can imagine that the subject of an activity is actually subjectively defined, and even when it's

Re: [PyCON-Organizers] event scheduling: Board Game Social room and time.

2008-03-03 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 4:41 PM, DeanG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While the notes are open getting the Lab setup, can I ask for a recommendation on a designated room for the Board Game Event? Based on interest this year I don't expect needing a large room, especially as overflow can move to

Re: WDS problems observed in today's testing

2008-03-03 Thread Jim Gettys
These were WRT54GL's running OpenWRT, just to ask the exact configuration? Note that (the last I heard) some of the newer WRT54G's have too little RAM to run OpenWRT, which is why the WRT54GL model was introduced, IIRC. - Jim On Mon, 2008-03-03 at 16:47 +1030, Kim

Re: [OLPC Networking] Issues with the wireless mesh devices

2008-03-03 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Kim wrote: ...The network admin guys are quiet concerned about the DDOS possibilities. I comment, Hi Kim, I am very intested in the networking issue... because I am mounting a small lab to emulate the enviroment of the XOs Acces Point wireless work... About DDOS: At the end of this

Re: [OLPC Networking] Issues with the wireless mesh devices

2008-03-03 Thread Ricardo Carrano
Are there any tools that I can use to determine whats going on here? I noticed there was a wireshark patch is that for the XO itself? Yes, capturing traffic and analyzing in wireshark is a good way to understand what is going on. The patch you mentioned will help wireshark in decoding and

Re: WDS problems observed in today's testing

2008-03-03 Thread Javier Cardona
Jim, On 3/3/08, Jim Gettys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: These were WRT54GL's running OpenWRT, just to ask the exact configuration? Not sure if it was a WRT54G or WRT54GL, but I'm certain that it was running the original Linksys firmware. Javier -- Javier Cardona cozybit Inc.

Re: WDS problems observed in today's testing

2008-03-03 Thread Ricardo Carrano
I believe it is a WRT54Gv8 model (which, btw has not enough memory to run some of the openwrt variants around). It is brand new AP (bought it at BestBuy) with stock LInksys firmware. It is still at 1cc (I brought another (same model) with me so not to disturb the tests in place). On Mon, Mar 3,

Re: WDS problems observed in today's testing

2008-03-03 Thread Jim Gettys
On Mon, 2008-03-03 at 10:22 -0800, Javier Cardona wrote: Jim, On 3/3/08, Jim Gettys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: These were WRT54GL's running OpenWRT, just to ask the exact configuration? Not sure if it was a WRT54G or WRT54GL, but I'm certain that it was running the original Linksys

RE: WDS problems observed in today's testing

2008-03-03 Thread Ronak Chokshi
We encountered this problem elsewhere and found out that the latest version of the firmware from Linksys (only works on the WRT54G v8 routers btw; might also work for the WAP54G as well) resolves the WDS problem. http://www.linksys.com/servlet/Satellite?blobcol=urldatablobheadername1

Re: Testing 200 XO's in two weeks time for Nepal's pilot

2008-03-03 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Gilmore wrote: | I recommend that once you have developer keys, you leave the machines | unlocked. You are going to be running a lot of unsigned builds in the | future -- you're customizing your builds. Eventually, there must be a way for

Re: [OLPC Networking] Issues with the wireless mesh devices

2008-03-03 Thread Kim Hawtin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kim wrote: ...The network admin guys are quiet concerned about the DDOS possibilities. I comment, Hi Kim, I am very intested in the networking issue... because I am mounting a small lab to emulate the enviroment of the XOs Acces Point wireless work...

Re: Today's mesh testing.

2008-03-03 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 7:05 PM, Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: broadcast, and they were all able to see and join a shared chat session with each other. The workload on the spectrum analyzer increased from 18% (no-one connected) to 26% (all connected). The chat session is consistent

Re: [OLPC Networking] Issues with the wireless mesh devices

2008-03-03 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Some ideas: a) Google and other intense information providers have set up their servers to refuse too many requests from the same user in a short period of time. b) filtering (nat or caching software) will be a tool to do the same not only with http but with all the TCP/IP protocols. c) If a

Re: Testing 200 XO's in two weeks time for Nepal's pilot

2008-03-03 Thread Richard A. Smith
Bryan Berry wrote: Here is the Rough Test Plan I have in mind 1. Boot into firmware and run test-all Note that the current shipping firmware can sometimes report false positives for sticky keys in the keyboard test. So if you think you have sticky keys upgrade the firmware to Q2D13 and

Re: Testing 200 XO's in two weeks time for Nepal's pilot

2008-03-03 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 11:38 PM, Bryan Berry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey guys, Nepal should receive its shipment of 200 XO's in roughly 14 days from today. Here is the Rough Test Plan I have in mind 1. Boot into firmware and run test-all 2. Load customized image based on 656 build

Re: Testing 200 XO's in two weeks time for Nepal's pilot

2008-03-03 Thread Bryan Berry
We need to do a lot of work on the localization, a lot. There hopefully will be a renewed effort on this from our team starting next week. There aren't 40 spare XO's. A chunk of those will go to the teachers (10-15) leaving some for spares and we may have a special class for kids not in the lucky

Re: [OLPC Networking] Issues with the wireless mesh devices

2008-03-03 Thread Kim Hawtin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some ideas: a) Google and other intense information providers have set up their servers to refuse too many requests from the same user in a short period of time. b) filtering (nat or caching software) will be a tool to do the same not only with http but with all

Re: WDS problems observed in today's testing

2008-03-03 Thread Hal Murray
Yup. They will always have the problem. My point was that if you see a WRT54G (as opposed to the WRT54GL), you have to dig deeper to figure out if they can run OpenWRT or not. Some can; some cannot A simple rule of thumb. Recent units can't. Nothing like changing hardware in a

Need Help

2008-03-03 Thread Waqas Toor
Hello All, I am having a problem and unable to find any solution regarding that, I have written an activity in using GTK and glade, and have sugarized it according to the hello world tutorial in wiki. but still i dont know what is going on as the icon of the activity stays in the ring and then

Re: Testing 200 XO's in two weeks time for Nepal's pilot

2008-03-03 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
On 3/4/08, Edward Cherlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: .snipped You're talking about testing the keyboard layout and fonts. What about localization of software? According to Pootle, except possibly for XO-Bundled (89%), the Nepali localization is not in good shape. The rest of the modules are

Re: Need Help

2008-03-03 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Waqas Toor wrote: | Hello All, | | I am having a problem and unable to find any solution regarding that, | I have written an activity in using GTK and glade, and have sugarized | it according to the hello world tutorial in wiki. but still i dont |

uucp for sneakernet (was Re: Emulating the School...]

2008-03-03 Thread Bennett Todd
2008-03-03T05:50:31 [EMAIL PROTECTED]: We are studying the Wizzy and all the UUCP related issues. Don't know what Wizzy is, but _very_ glad to hear uucp is being looked at for sneakernet[1]. It's been 10 years since I used uucp, and that was for a truly baroque firewall; 20 years since I've

Re: Testing 200 XO's in two weeks time for Nepal's pilot

2008-03-03 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 10:41 PM, Sayamindu Dasgupta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/4/08, Edward Cherlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: .snipped You're talking about testing the keyboard layout and fonts. What about localization of software? According to Pootle, except possibly for

squid problem

2008-03-03 Thread sulochan acharya
Hey Adrian, I have a small problem with squid offline mode. I was hoping that you would point me to right direction. 1. I can not access pages in offline_mode. Here is what i did: on squid.conf i added cachemgr_passwd none offline_toggle then squidclient mgr:offline_toggle---it said this