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

2009-03-10 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

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

2009-03-10 Thread Sameer Verma
2009/3/9 Mel Chua meta...@gmail.com: 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

Re: gitweb-cgit

2009-03-10 Thread Richard Smith
Chris Ball wrote: Any complaints/obvious bugs/things I've missed? Yeah... you broke the firmware builds. I've fixed them now. -- Richard A. Smith smithb...@gmail.com ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org

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

2009-03-10 Thread Bryan Berry
On Mon, 2009-03-09 at 21:51 -0700, Sameer Verma wrote: On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 7:04 PM, Bryan Berry br...@olenepal.org wrote: On Tue, 2009-03-10 at 09:58 +1300, Martin Langhoff wrote: On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 12:11 AM, Bryan Berry br...@olenepal.org wrote: I am worried about the XO's and not

XO boot problem

2009-03-10 Thread Philipp Kocher
Hi, An other school in Cambodia has the problem that several XOs don't boot anymore. Some of the XOs have build 708 and other ones build 767 installed. All are in secure mode. With a dignostic startup the following information is last shown on the screen: OLPC C2, 256 MiB memory installed, S/N

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

2009-03-10 Thread Bastien
Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com writes: +1 http://sugarlabs.org/go/Translation Maybe Translation is not the best choice for naming this page. Feel free to modify it. I tried to figure out where to put this in the To Do list page, but couldn't find anything really useful. First

Re: XO boot problem

2009-03-10 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/3/10 Philipp Kocher philipp.koc...@gmx.net: Hi, An other school in Cambodia has the problem that several XOs don't boot anymore. Some of the XOs have build 708 and other ones build 767 installed. All are in secure mode. With a dignostic startup the following information is last shown on

Re: XO boot problem

2009-03-10 Thread Hal Murray
While the firmware update will solve the immediate problem where OpenFirmware crashes when minor corruption is encountered, unclean shutdowns will lead to file corruption causing more, probably less-obvious problems down the line. How solid is the jffs2 file system? If I remove power while

Re: Problem to use with USB VGA dongle

2009-03-10 Thread Brian Jordan
Hi devel@, Tried screen mirroring again, Here are my xorg.conf and corresponding Xorg.0.log complete with segfault: http://dev.laptop.org/~bjordan/xorg.conf.1 http://dev.laptop.org/~bjordan/Xorg.0.log Any ideas? Brian On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 1:33 PM, Brian Jordan br...@laptop.org wrote: Hi

Re: memory space

2009-03-10 Thread John Watlington
[There are better people to answer this. Perhaps they have migrated to the sugarlabs devel mailing list ?] Insert the SD card. Copy documents from the main storage onto the SD card, using the Journal. Delete the documents from the main storage (as new documents will be created there by

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

2009-03-10 Thread Reuben K. Caron
Daniel Drake wrote: 2009/3/9 Bryan Berry br...@olenepal.org: We will have roughly 8+ AP's. We have found that off-the-shelf AP's can handle around 60-70 users. But that doesn't still doesn't solve the problem of the XO's getting bogged down by tons of ejabberd chatter. DSD: do you have any

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

2009-03-10 Thread Rangan Srikhanta
Folks, Here at OLPC AU, we are using Linksys WRT54GLs using DD-WRT and configuring the routers to act as an AP according to the following instructions. http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Wireless_Access_Point I found I could turn the WRT54GL into the required AP mode in 10minutes, using

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

2009-03-10 Thread Dev Mohanty
Rangan, I remember the Linksys routers used to drop connection, as soon as 33-34 clients were logged in, and as Bryan mentioned we got much better perfomance with the readily available Taiwanese brand of APs. With a Linksys 25 odd clients works just fine though with heavy traffic. With the

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

2009-03-10 Thread Sameer Verma
On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 6:14 AM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: 2009/3/10 Reuben K. Caron reu...@laptop.org: Have you tried loading a different firmware on these, dd-wrt? No, but there are regulatory issues there and we won't be using them in the schools...only used them because it was

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

2009-03-10 Thread Bryan Berry
Here are some notes from a short IRC conversation I had w/ Rob Mcqueen, the lead developer of Telepathy transcript of conversation on #sugar bemasc: bernie: I am concerned about the fact that in the default schoolserver set up all users are in one giant shared roster Robot101 RESOLVED,

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

2009-03-10 Thread John Watlington
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. My argument has always been that you want local web caching and content, and that an XS shouldn't be that much more expensive than the above