Re: [Server-devel] are NUC5i3RYH & NUC6i3SYH really limited to 12 WiFi clients??

On Sat, Aug 27, 2016 at 12:55 AM, Anish Mangal wrote: > FWIW, on an older 2nd gen NUC I also see max 10-12 connections on the > WiFi. I dont know if I have tried the latest kernel on that, so your > finding is atleast consistent with older gen NUCs. > FYI Kernel 4.4.14

[Server-devel] Fwd: Re: Discussing Sugarizer ~0.8 on XSCE 6.1

From: "Lionel Laské" <lionel.la...@gmail.com> Date: Aug 28, 2016 4:09 PM Cc: "xsce-devel" <xsce-de...@googlegroups.com> Hi Adam, hi XSCE guys, Great idea. Will be nice to help you on this. Best regards from France. Lionel. > 2016-08-24 21:45 G

[Server-devel] New Toys: Fedora 25 on RPi3 / XSCE 6.1 on Raspbian

Jerry & All, 1) Is anyone testing Peter Robinson's Fedora 25 Beta on RPi3 yet, as released Oct 11? https://fedoramagazine.org/raspberry-pi-support-fedora-25-beta/ Does the above imply http://kraxel.org and http://fedberry.org are less needed going forward? Regardless whether CentOS ever

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] Re: Test image with asterisk/freepbx (SIP) and coova/radius captive portal

Anish, How far away do you think we are from implementing a radio button in XSCE's Admin Console, enabling Captive Portal for all (less literate communities especially) who need it? Presumably customizable to http://box or whatever that location/organization wants? Adam On Oct 24, 2016 8:26

Re: [Server-devel] New Toys: Fedora 25 on RPi3 / XSCE 6.1 on Raspbian

il.com> wrote: Sent from Samsung Mobile Adam Holt <h...@laptop.org> wrote: Jerry & All, 1) Is anyone testing Peter Robinson's Fedora 25 Beta on RPi3 yet, as released Oct 11 Not yet but with my recent ansible2.1 testing should work. https://fedoramagazine.org/raspberry-pi-sup

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

e. > > > 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. > > > -- > *From:* aholt...@gmail.com <aholt...@gmail.com&

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

I'm trying to organize a mtg "this wkd" (or if absolutely nec Monday morning) after Tim gets off a long ferry ride this Saturday, and respectful of George and Curt being busy Sunday PM with WiFi scalability testing. Proposed times are: - Saturday Oct 22, Noon NYC Time - Sunday Oct 23, 1PM NYC

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

Below's a quick tour of the Utilities menu resulting from Tim's hard work within http:///admin on 2 very different Linux OS's. Tests were attempted using XSCE 6.1 on RPi3 (Raspberry Pi 3), after some incredible prep/packaging work by Jerry Vonau & George Hunt on these 2 very different OS's. Keep

[Server-devel] Fwd: Announcing the release of Fedora 25 Beta

-- Forwarded message -- From: "Mohan Boddu" Date: Oct 11, 2016 7:04 AM Subject: Announcing the release of Fedora 25 Beta To: , < devel-annou...@lists.fedoraproject.org>, Cc: The Fedora

Re: [Server-devel] BBR: Congestion-Based Congestion Control

On Dec 4, 2016 6:19 PM, "James Cameron" wrote: School server networks fail to perform fairly or effectively because the loss-based congestion control methods in TCP networking are not a good match for the wireless environment. Wireless access points or devices with too much

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] xsce on centos/rpi3

On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 9:04 PM, Anish Mangal wrote: > Hi, > > Wondering if anyone has tried installing XSCE on centos on rpi3, and faced > issues. Planning to try this out now that I have rpi3's > Not yet. Most of us are using Raspbian (see Nov 30's

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] xsce on centos/rpi3

our weekly call this Wedn 10AM EST (NYC Time) if you can, in 13.5 hrs from now: http://tinyurl.com/xsceminutes For what release is this scheduled? XSCE 6.2 officially, but Raspbian worked well with George's 6.1 derivative earlier this autumn. On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 2:50 PM, Adam Holt <h..

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] xsce on centos/rpi3

On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 3:07 AM, Adam Holt <h...@laptop.org> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 9:04 PM, Anish Mangal <anis...@umich.edu> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Wondering if anyone has tried installing XSCE on centos on rpi3, and >> faced issues. Plann

[Server-devel] CentOS "7.3" (1611) Released, for x86_64

Aside: Likely that the forthcoming XSCE 6.2 will also run on Debian 8.6 or 9. From: "Karanbir Singh" [ https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2016-December/022172.html ] I am pleased to announce the general availability of CentOS Linux 7 (1611) for 64 bit x86

[Server-devel] "yum clean all" on Raspbian / Debian?

I'm use to running things like "yum clean all" or dnf equivalent on CentOS and Fedora to free up more than 2 GB of useful "disk" space, really vital when shipping out 32GB or 64GB or 128GB MicroSD cards in RPi3 and similar. Is there a recommended equivalent for Raspbian / Debian?

Re: [Server-devel] "yum clean all" on Raspbian / Debian?

On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 9:48 AM, Kevin Cole wrote: > sudo apt-get clean > > will remove the downloaded package files (no longer needed after > they've been unpacked and installed). I think that's what you're > looking for. > Thanks Kevin. While it did not free up disk space,

[Server-devel] Internet-in-a-Box / XSCE Weekly Call: Thurs 10AM EST / NYC Time

We've had many agenda additions already, please keep them coming, adding your own here! http://tinyurl.com/xsceminutes See you in exactly 23 hours...hope to see Adam Choi Townsend from Hong Kong & Reno McKenzie from the Seattle area both ~ who are bringing many new+important experiences to

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] need help getting moodle installed and configured hopefully with elgg ie SCALE demo

e best policy is: "If it's not broken, > don't fix it". > *Vital clarif, thx so much George!* On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 10:20 AM, Adam Holt <h...@laptop.org> wrote: > >> On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 9:08 AM, Tim Moody <t...@timmoody.com> wrote: >> >>

[Server-devel] Internet-in-a-Box 6.2 install images + sampler content coming soon!

As we approach the finish line rapidly in coming weeks if not days, this morning AnishM, AvniK, TimM and GeorgeH helped standardize our IIAB install image filenames, example preview: iiab-6.2-YYMMDD-pixel-sampler-g2ea032e.img.zip (Our emerging guidelines @ http://tinyurl.com/iiabimages should

Re: [Server-devel] Internet-in-a-Box/XSCE Weekly Call: THUR 10:30AM NYC Time

Call Minutes have now been posted: http://tinyurl.com/iiabminutes *Thx to everyone who participated: Great Progress resulted, that'll become very public in April !!* On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 12:13 PM, Adam Holt <h...@laptop.org> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 12:07 PM, Ada

Re: [Server-devel] Internet-in-a-Box & OLPC-like technologies in Ethiopia: 1PM NYC Time Thur March 23

as we begin the call...for those who prefer to introduce themselves using video!)* On Sat, Mar 18, 2017 at 2:46 PM, Adam Holt <h...@laptop.org> wrote: > Please meet 2 very hard-working volunteers who will share their schools' > digital library construction ambitions in Addis Aba

Re: [Server-devel] Internet-in-a-Box/XSCE Weekly Call: THUR 10:30AM NYC Time

On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 12:07 PM, Adam Holt <h...@laptop.org> wrote: > See you in just under 24hrs! > > Plz add to & enhance the agenda here: > >http://tinyurl.com/iiabimages > CORRECTION: http://tinyurl.com/iiabminutes Live Chat Back Channel: https://we

[Server-devel] Internet-in-a-Box & OLPC-like technologies in Ethiopia: 1PM NYC Time Thur March 23

Please meet 2 very hard-working volunteers who will share their schools' digital library construction ambitions in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia this Thursday: - Giuseppe Chiappini, IT professional from Virginia, who is comparing the Edubuntu+Offline Wikipedia approach offered by http://Camara.org

Re: [Server-devel] DRAFT: Guidelines for Creating IIAB Images incl Sample Content Packs

On Sat, Mar 11, 2017 at 3:02 PM, Adam Holt <h...@laptop.org> wrote: > On Sat, Mar 11, 2017 at 3:00 PM, Adam Holt <h...@laptop.org> wrote: > >> Can you give Josh's 2-page doc a once-over this wkd? (Anyone hoping to >> create Internet-in-a-Box images to empower t

[Server-devel] in plain english: How to Add Content to Internet-in-a-Box

Today I've overhauled most of the "Add Content" section at the bottom of our Internet-in-a-Box (formerly XSCE) install doc: https://github.com/XSCE/xsce/wiki/IIAB-Installation#add-content *Plz continue to provide feedback & suggestions, Thanks All!* PS see also the high-level summary at

Re: [Server-devel] http://download.iiab.io/6.2 MOCKUP to gather ideas!

On Mon, Apr 3, 2017 at 6:08 PM, Adam Holt <h...@laptop.org> wrote: > Purely a mockup to gather different community ideas leading to a healthier > spring garden very soon...let us know as Internet-in-a-Box (IIAB/XSCE) 6.2 > release approaches rapidly :-) > >http://download

[Server-devel] ditch all *.img.md5.txt ? (*.img.zip.md5.txt far more useful)

Tim's argument that *.img.md5.txt creates too much noise within http://xsce.org/downloads is fair (e.g. in future http://download.iiab.io) since we already have *.img.zip.md5 to verify downloads. Of course we can't please everyone, but there's a lot of redundancy built in already, and checking

[Server-devel] spring cleaning of http://xsce.org/downloads incl Official Images anybody can make!

FYI lesser-used images have moved from: http://xsce.org/downloads/xsce-release-6.2/rpi/ to: http://xsce.org/downloads/xsce-release-6.2/rpi/other-images/ Meanwhile George Hunt is streamlining the README publication/guidelines process, so any competent sysadmin can publish their own

[Server-devel] Internet-in-a-Box/XSCE 6.2 Thur Call: 10:30AM NYC Time

See you then (in exactly 24 hours) and thanks for adding your topic to the Agenda here in advance! http://tinyurl.com/iiabminutes Live Chat Backchannel: https://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#schoolserver (use irc's Private-Message feature to grab our attention if nec!)

Re: [Server-devel] http://download.iiab.io/6.2 MOCKUP to gather ideas!

-forwarding with masking to the same underlying http://xsce.org/downloads for now, instead of a DNS Zone File A record etc we'll shoot for in future...again, apologies our current $11/month shared hosting service does not permit this (: On Mon, Apr 3, 2017 at 9:37 PM, Adam Holt <h...@laptop.

Re: [Server-devel] ditch all *.img.md5.txt ? (*.img.zip.md5.txt far more useful)

On Mon, Apr 3, 2017 at 6:46 PM, James Cameron wrote: > Too much noise is a good argument. > > Solutions can be; > > 0. omit the checksums if they are used less than 10% of the time > (check your logs), > > 1. use one file to contain all checksums, e.g. MD5SUMS, > > 2. don't

Re: [Server-devel] Internet-in-a-Box/XSCE 6.2 Release Underway! (Public Annc TO FOLLOW)

se images, as I'll try to do in coming days! On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 11:47 AM, Adam Holt <h...@laptop.org> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 10:12 PM, Adam Holt <h...@laptop.org> wrote: > >> (Broad Public Annc TO FOLLOW as content-rich images appear in coming days >>

[Server-devel] Internet-in-a-Box Community Call Minutes Published

Unbelievable progress after some exhausting unit/integration testing coming to a close, *Thanks All as we're days away from IIAB/XSCE 6.2's final release:* http://tinyurl.com/iiabminutes Preview of what's next: Implementation will begin in at least 4 schools in Oaxaca, Mexico during the last

Re: [Server-devel] Internet-in-a-Box/XSCE 6.2 Release Underway! (Public Annc TO FOLLOW)

On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 10:12 PM, Adam Holt <h...@laptop.org> wrote: > (Broad Public Annc TO FOLLOW as content-rich images appear in coming days > & weeks!) > > Excerpt from http://schoolserver.org : > > *IIAB/XSCE 6.2 <http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_Community_Editi

[Server-devel] Internet-in-a-Box/XSCE 6.2 Release Underway! (Public Annc TO FOLLOW)

(Broad Public Annc TO FOLLOW as content-rich images appear in coming days & weeks!) Excerpt from http://schoolserver.org : *IIAB/XSCE 6.2 was released April 19, 2017, with Release Notes here

[Server-devel] DRAFT: How can one remotely access Internet-in-a-Box servers?

There are many security/convenience tradeoffs embedded here (thank to 3 years of work by George Hunt tuning OpenVPN) so please reply with suggestions all who can, as we do our best to hit this perpetually moving target: - 21 How can one remotely access Internet-in-a-Box servers?

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] DRAFT: How can one remotely access Internet-in-a-Box servers?

screens, the adminstrator needs to see > the result. This could perhaps be done by someone local on the lan > describing the changes. > > Tony > > > > > > > On 03/10/2017 06:39 AM, Adam Holt wrote: > > There are many security/convenience tradeoff

Re: [Server-devel] 10:30AM EST Thur IIAB Call

On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 12:26 PM, Adam Holt wrote: > Plz add to the agenda here; > >http://tinyurl.com/iiabminutes > Much revised above ~ plz add to + refine! Thanks & see you there! > ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-dev

[Server-devel] Chrome 56+ fails to display ZIMs. Boot/poweroff delays: progress ongoing!

be useful to share this with the community who might >> be unknowingly updating to stay safe and up-to-date :) >> >> On Thu, Mar 2, 2017 at 10:21 PM, Adam Holt <h...@unleashkids.org> wrote: >> >>> Look in Kiwix's new issue tracker. >>> >>> Ti

[Server-devel] Fwd: [OLPC-SF] [Olpc-open] [IAEP] OLPC-SF March meeting: Ethiopia

What Mike says, indeed! From: Mike Lee <curious...@gmail.com> Date: Sat, Mar 11, 2017 at 4:43 PM Subject: Re: [OLPC-SF] [Olpc-open] [IAEP] OLPC-SF March meeting: Ethiopia To: Adam Holt <h...@laptop.org> Cc: Sameer Verma <sve...@sfsu.edu>, "olpc-o...@lists.laptop.org"

[Server-devel] http://download.iiab.io/6.2 MOCKUP to gather ideas!

Purely a mockup to gather different community ideas leading to a healthier spring garden very soon...let us know as Internet-in-a-Box (IIAB/XSCE) 6.2 release approaches rapidly :-) http://download.iiab.io/6.2 (e.g. different directory structures will be considered, so long as they're very

[Server-devel] "systemctl restart xsce-cmdsrv" &/or other stuff when Admin Console crashes?

Hi, am just wondering if there might be newbie tips we can circulate, when Internet-in-a-Box's Admin Console won't load at http://box/admin Sometimes it gets overloaded for sure, when one tries to download way too much within Install Content -> Get ZIM Files from Kiwix. But this evening on RPi3

Re: [Server-devel] "systemctl restart xsce-cmdsrv" &/or other stuff when Admin Console crashes?

On Sun, Apr 2, 2017 at 11:06 PM, James Cameron wrote: > My gut feel is electrostatic lockup, radio interference, cosmic rays, > or a momentary DC bus collapse leading to memory corruption or > filesystem remount readonly. > > You might look at logs before the event, to see if

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] Re: documenting IIAB Variables

r highly remote operators. On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 3:08 PM, Adam Holt <h...@laptop.org> wrote: > >> On Mon, Apr 3, 2017 at 12:11 PM, Adam Holt <h...@laptop.org> wrote: >> >>> [ Thanks everyone for a Wonderfully Efficient "lucky 49 min" call this >>&g

[Server-devel] Internet-in-a-Box 6.3 Released

Internet-in-a-Box (IIAB) 6.3 is a big step forward allowing schools and clinics around the world to DIY their very own friendly digital libraries! IIAB 6.3 (or very recent pre-releases) have already been brought to Ghana, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Nicaragua and Malaysia -- while implementation

Re: [Server-devel] [UKids] Re: Internet-in-a-Box 6.3 Released

On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 3:38 PM, Adam Holt <h...@laptop.org> wrote: > On Jul 14, 2017 3:26 PM, "Jerry Vonau" <jvon...@gmail.com> wrote: > > ​Does this still apply? "​ > On classical PC hardware, do turn off UEFI > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unifie

Re: [Server-devel] Internet-in-a-Box 6.3 Released

On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 1:20 AM, Adam Holt <h...@laptop.org> wrote: > Internet-in-a-Box (IIAB) 6.3 is a big step forward allowing schools and > clinics around the world to DIY their very own friendly digital libraries! > > IIAB 6.3 (or very recent pre-releases) have already bee

[Server-devel] Debian 8.9 and 9.1 Released

I would hope that IIAB 6.3 would run on Debian 8.9, but do others know? I would hope that IIAB 6.4 (pre-release) might run on Debian 9.1, but do others know? Stay Tuned :-) ___

Re: [Server-devel] install Internet-in-a-Box 6.3 master in ~45min (onto RPi 3)

, so if you need a hand getting http://download.iiab.io/6.3/rpi/load-lite.txt to work with RC2, shout! On Sat, Jul 1, 2017 at 10:57 PM, Adam Holt <h...@laptop.org> wrote: > I'm well aware XSCE's traditional multi-hour Ansible-based installation > process traditionally drove many people Completely A

[Server-devel] Internet-in-a-Box 6.3 Release Candidate 2

*This is a feature freeze, for possible release in the coming week! The big news is that IIAB 6.3 resides in a new home at http://github.com/iiab -- and that Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS is newly supported alongside many other Linux distributions -- with experimental support for

Re: [Server-devel] Internet-in-a-Box 6.3 Release Candidate 2

On Tue, Jul 4, 2017 at 4:57 PM, Adam Holt <h...@laptop.org> wrote: > > > *This is a feature freeze, for possible release in the coming week! The > big news is that IIAB 6.3 resides in a new home at http://github.com/iiab > <http://github.com/iiab> -- and that

[Server-devel] Monday 10:30AM EDT Internet-in-a-Box Call!

With almost 30 of us meeting in 2 weeks from today at the http://OFF.NETWORK Hackathon (content engineering for open education/medical) please all who can join in preparing! Our tomorrow/Monday 10:30AM EDT (NYC Time) Skype call agenda is here...*please all add to it & annotate!*

[Server-devel] Raspbian Stretch Released

Tim does this help Captive Portal implementation? In any case, this is a major change from the underlying Debian 8.x to Debian 9.x. Raspbian "Pixel" appears to have been renamed "WITH DESKTOP" to avoid confusion. Raspbian "LITE" retains that name (no X Windows desktop). Release notes:

[Server-devel] "Raspbian reserves 4% of all disk space"

...for exactly what is unclear, on headless RPi's in remote areas especially. Does someone know more about how this reserve disk threshold works? Can it possibly help an untrained operator, in a highly offline community, when SD-card-as-primary-disk hits that threshold? Certainly WordPress, X

[Server-devel] /opt/schoolserver/xsce is now /opt/iiab/iiab !

Per the restructuring we all decided upon during Thursday morning's Internet-in-a-Box community call, I've made changes to http://FAQ.IIAB.IO so we can start the transition to: /opt/iiab/iiab /opt/iiab/iiab-admin-console /opt/iiab/iiab-menu /opt/iiab/iiab-factory Directly

[Server-devel] TeamViewer Host now works on Raspbian (seeding GrannieCloud direct action!)

This is a MASSIVE step forward compared to 2016's earlier pre-release, for volunteers of all kind wanting hassle-free remote control of their Raspberry Pi 3 [*] computers. Including Internet-in-a-Box! But I'm personally interested in *all* Collaborative Action use cases (not just

[Server-devel] Video: Internet-in-a-Box in the Dominican Republic

Fantastic video, even if I wish they/d credited "Internet-in-a-Box" (all of us, and our OLPC/Sugar origins) rather than crediting me! I did not know this video was coming. I've asked Columbia Univ folks(*) to more properly credit Internet-in-a-Box in future :) https://youtu.be/xI3Ed008Mxo

[Server-devel] How to create Internet-in-a-Box/XSCE 6.2.1 on a Raspberry Pi?

*Congrats* to ALL our "How to create an Internet-in-a-Box on a Raspberry Pi" article (https://opensource.com/article/17/5/internet-in-a-box-raspberry-pi) was the top-performing article of the week ( https://opensource.com/article/17/5/top-5-may-26) and our community / installed base is growing

[Server-devel] Apache 2.4.6 on CentOS and 2.4.10 on Debian/Raspbian

Just FYI... Apache 2.4.6 was released July ~19, 2013 (used by IIAB/XSCE 6.2 on CentOS). Apache 2.4.10 was released Jule ~19, 2014 (used by IIAB/XSCE 6.2 on Debian/Raspbian). Apache 2.4.25 was release Dec ~19, 2016...if anybody knows any particularly important risks above that Internet-in-a-Box

Re: [Server-devel] KA Lite videos compress to ~41% of their original size (by Reno McKenzie)

s.mp4 Thank you: we're going to be running this further on French & Spanish at minimum~ Sean P.S. I'm living in NYC now You might want to consider our http://OFF.NETWORK Content Hackathon in upper NY State Aug 13-18, many of whose attendees are arriving from France like yourself

[Server-devel] [Internet-in-a-Box iiab.io forums] Fail-safe for multiple NUCs?

From: Mikko Kotila Hey Guys, we are doing an installation where the main consideration is that we might have a few thousand users simultanously in our mesh network, and we need to ensure that we have a stable connection to the open internet. This means that we would like to have a have fail-safe

[Server-devel] code review needed for IIAB 6.3 master installer script

Thanks All! http://download.iiab.io/6.3/rpi/load-master.txt In particular I'm wondering if "bash -x" needs to be specified twice, both inside the above script, and when it is called as follows: curl http://download.iiab.io/6.3/rpi/load-master.txt | sudo bash Or should it be called as

Re: [Server-devel] code review needed for IIAB 6.3 master installer script

On Fri, Jun 2, 2017 at 11:47 AM, Adam Holt <h...@laptop.org> wrote: > Thanks All! > >http://download.iiab.io/6.3/rpi/load-master.txt > Likewise the more stable IIAB/XSCE 6.2 can be installed "From Scratch" onto Raspbian as follows: http://download.iiab.

Re: [Server-devel] (overly!) intense Internet-in-a-Box agenda Monday 10:30AM NYC Time

On Sun, Jun 4, 2017 at 2:59 AM, Adam Holt <h...@laptop.org> wrote: > Thanks all for your understanding that we have almost 10 > countries/communities asking to install Internet-in-a-Box in coming > days/weeks, and so Monday's meeting will have to be kept tightly on > schedule

[Server-devel] (overly!) intense Internet-in-a-Box agenda Monday 10:30AM NYC Time

Thanks all for your understanding that we have almost 10 countries/communities asking to install Internet-in-a-Box in coming days/weeks, and so Monday's meeting will have to be kept tightly on schedule. Yes we may need to crack the whip occasionally to move the call forward sticking to the agenda

Re: [Server-devel] Internet-in-a-Box 6.3 PRE-RELEASE installs w/o a hitch onto Raspbian!

On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 6:28 AM, Adam Holt <h...@laptop.org> wrote: > George Hunt loudly curses my name every day when he remembers he gave up a > comfortable retirement on the gold course > And golf course too! > to... *write software for children + medical students in em

[Server-devel] Internet-in-a-Box 6.3 PRE-RELEASE installs w/o a hitch onto Raspbian!

George Hunt loudly curses my name every day when he remembers he gave up a comfortable retirement on the gold course to... *write software for children + medical students in emerging countries instead ???* But the communities in the Dominican Republic and Haiti love him nonetheless, as in coming

Re: [Server-devel] Internet-in-a-Box 6.3 PRE-RELEASE installs w/o a hitch onto Raspbian!

t; > -- > James Cameron > http://quozl.netrek.org/ > > On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 06:28:06AM -0400, Adam Holt wrote: > > George Hunt loudly curses my name every day ... > ___ > Server-devel mailing list > Server-devel@lists.lapt

[Server-devel] http://download.iiab.io now 5X faster

I've moved http://download.iiab.io 's DNS & Apache settings to http://download.unleashkids.org/iiab for now. Mirroring is underway, and should complete within about an hour. This has 4 advantages: 1. downloads ~5X faster (typical IIAB install image is downloaded within 10min rather than

[Server-devel] ssh.service error on CentOS 7.3

IIAB/XSCE 6.2 is installed on CentOS 7.3 on a NUC, and this error message appears whenever I open a Terminal: Redirecting to /bin/systemctl status ssh.service Unit ssh.service could not be found. Does anyone know if/where I can fix that to sshd.service instead of ssh.service? PS Apache

[Server-devel] Internet-in-a-Box 6.3 prerelease builds @ http://github.com/iiab/iiab

For those who want to roll with a more cutting-edge build responsive to community needs (and don't mind bruises along the way!) George Hunt has helped us all over a major hump this past wkd. He has rebased to a new GitHub repo (http://github.com/iiab/iiab instead of http://github.com/xsce/xsce)

[Server-devel] KA Lite videos compress to ~41% of their original size (by Reno McKenzie)

Can folks plz evaluate the quality of those videos on the left, compared to the originals on the right? Note that he/we did not compress the audio channel, which should remain in very high quality stereo for now. We've begun by translating KA Lite's 8732 English videos, most all of which (I

Re: [Server-devel] KA Lite videos compress to ~41% of their original size (by Reno McKenzie)

On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 2:19 PM, Adam Holt <h...@laptop.org> wrote: > Can folks plz evaluate the quality of those videos on the left, compared > to the originals on the right? Note that he/we did not compress the audio > channel, which should remain in very high quality stereo

[Server-devel] Internet-in-a-Box 6.3 Tech Docs (EARLY PREVIEW)

This is only an *early draft*, but thanks all for pointing to the sections you believe most needing rewriting/removal/clarif/etc ! http://github.com/iiab/iiab/wiki ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org

Re: [Server-devel] Internet-in-a-Box 6.4 "Beta" ! NEW: Ansible 2.2.1 rapid-install

On Sun, Sep 17, 2017 at 10:15 AM, Adam Holt <h...@laptop.org> wrote: > Try any of these 1-line installers on Raspberry Pi: > >http://download.iiab.io/6.4/rpi/load-min-vpn.txt (~6 server apps) > Above works! >http://download.iiab.io/6.4/rpi/load-vpn.txt (~12 s

Re: [Server-devel] [UKids] Re: [XSCE] Internet-in-a-Box 6.4 is 79% Complete according to GitHub :-)

File "/usr/local/kalite/venv/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/kalite/i18n/base.py", line 398, in download_content_pack zf = zipfile.ZipFile(fobj) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/zipfile.py", line 770, in __init__ self._RealGetContents() File "/usr/lib/python2.7/zipfile.py",

[Server-devel] Internet-in-a-Box 6.4 is 79% Complete according to GitHub :-)

*61 Issues/Pull Requests closed with 16 to go:* https://github.com/iiab/iiab/milestone/1 Equating to m-a-s-s-i-v-e progress over the past week alone...hence Release Candidate 2 released earlier today! Please all who can try out our new 1-liner install

Re: [Server-devel] [UKids] Re: [XSCE] Internet-in-a-Box 6.4 is 79% Complete according to GitHub :-)

and they aren't always the fault of learningequality.org. Locally broken WiFi can do it too. Ask ka-lite team to add retry when the download is obviously not a Zip file, or to retry anyway. They've certainly had problems with content pack downloads. On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 12:37:23AM -0400, Adam Holt

[Server-devel] Fwd: Can I buy my own Internet-in-a-Box?

From: James Heilman <jmh...@gmail.com> Date: Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 9:00 AM Subject: Re: Can I buy my own Internet-in-a-Box? To: Adam Holt <h...@laptop.org> Cc: xsce-devel <xsce-de...@googlegroups.com>, server-devel < server-devel@lists.laptop.org>, Unleash Kids! <u

[Server-devel] Can I buy my own Internet-in-a-Box?

Excerpt from http://FAQ.IIAB.IO #5: Can I buy my own Internet-in-a-Box? You can order a basic medical version of Internet-in-a-Box from the Wiki Project Med Foundation who will

[Server-devel] 6 outstanding issues with IIAB 6.4 RC6

We Can Never Please Everyone (until we reach the afterlife ;-) But let's try to chop this list in half by Monday or thereabouts, so we can release one kick-ass product for DIY digital library builders around the planet, sometime next week: - Losing internet connectivity after restarting

Re: [Server-devel] 6 outstanding issues with IIAB 6.4 RC6

On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 1:31 PM, Adam Holt <h...@laptop.org> wrote: > We Can Never Please Everyone (until we reach the afterlife ;-) > > But let's try to chop this list in half by Monday or thereabouts, so we > can release one kick-ass product for DIY digital library builders a

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] Raspbian Stretch Released

case, so now desktop applications which require sudo access will prompt for the password rather than simply failing to work if a user without passwordless sudo uses them." Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone. Original message From: Adam Holt <h...@laptop.org> D

[Server-devel] "If you would like a list of possible values, enter ./runtags XXX"

Can someone clarify what XXX means in this error message? root@box:/opt/iiab/iiab# ./runtags cups elgg dokuwiki usage: ./runtags * If you would like a list of possible values, enter ./runtags XXX* I reverted to "./runansible" instead. But am still curious if runtags supports executing 2 (or

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] Re: "If you would like a list of possible values, enter ./runtags XXX"

On Sun, Sep 3, 2017 at 2:33 PM, Jerry Vonau, Winnipeg MB wrote: > On Saturday, September 2, 2017 at 6:38:45 AM UTC-5, holt wrote: >> >> Can someone clarify what XXX means in this error message? >> >> root@box:/opt/iiab/iiab# ./runtags cups elgg dokuwiki >> usage: ./runtags >> >>

[Server-devel] setting http://hogwarts/elgg or http://10.10.10.10/elgg with the new Elgg 2.3.4

Tim & TK, Can you confirm or help revise our new http://FAQ.IIAB.IO entry #25? Elgg Administration: What tips & tricks exist? You may want to set a campus-wide URL for your Elgg social network (other than the http://box/elgg default) such as http://hogwarts/elgg or http://10.10.10.10/elgg. If

Re: [Server-devel] PRE-Released: Internet-in-a-Box 6.5 Preview 2

PM, James Cameron <qu...@laptop.org> wrote: > On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 03:43:50PM -0500, Adam Holt wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 12:26 PM, Adam Holt <[1]h...@laptop.org> wrote: > > > > Including [2]IIAB 6.5 PRE-Release Notes :-) > > > > But just

[Server-devel] PRE-Released: Internet-in-a-Box 6.5 Preview 2

Including IIAB 6.5 PRE-Release Notes :-) But just a warning that Raspbian's mirrors (download servers) were barely working at all over the past ~12 hours or so, so you might have much better luck installing on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Debian

[Server-devel] KA Lite Administration: What tips & tricks exist?

Thanks to Rick Castorani and Tim Moody who helped get this organized during yesterday's Nicaragua-focused call: KA Lite Administration: What tips & tricks exist? http://FAQ.IIAB.IO #25 *Contributions most welcome, anybody who can help edit the above with further cool classroom-relevant

[Server-devel] Internet-in-a-Box 6.5 Release Candidate 4

Please test the living hell out it before it will very likely be released Thursday (-: http://download.iiab.io/6.5 Draft release notes: https://github.com/iiab/iiab/wiki/IIAB-6.5-Release-Notes Amazing progress thanks to Jerry, Tim & George in recent days!!

Re: [Server-devel] Internet-in-a-Box 6.5 Release Candidate 2

On Mon, May 7, 2018, 2:56 AM Adam Holt <h...@laptop.org> wrote: > Thanks EVERYONE for the extremely hard work over 7+ months, culminating in > this major Internet-in-a-Box (IIAB) accomplishment we hope to release in > coming days! > > IIAB 6.5 Release Candidate 2 has its 1

Re: [Server-devel] Error When installing IIAB 6.5 on RPI

re of everything!* On Fri, May 11, 2018, 2:13 PM Adam Holt <h...@laptop.org> wrote: > On Fri, May 11, 2018, 1:55 PM Joshua Kanani <kanani.jos...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Hey guys, i keep getting this annoying error when installing IIAB on >> Raspbian. Am using

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] Re: Error When installing IIAB 6.5 on RPI

00% sure, using "apt-key del 7BB9C367"* Consider another ISP using your phone's data plan or a friend's home if possible? (Or install Ansible 2.5.2 in some other way if you choose!) On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 1:13 PM, Adam Holt <h...@laptop.org> wrote: > >> On Fri, May 11, 2018,

Re: [Server-devel] Error When installing IIAB 6.5 on RPI

On Fri, May 11, 2018, 1:55 PM Joshua Kanani wrote: > Hey guys, i keep getting this annoying error when installing IIAB on > Raspbian. Am using the 2018-04-18 stretch lite version. Any thoughts > > Executing: /tmp/apt-key-gpghome.DlkMTdFv2W/gpg.1.sh --keyserver >

[Server-devel] Internet-in-a-Box 6.5 RC3 released!

Thanks especially to Blondel Mondésir in Haiti, who provided amazingly valuable feedback on IIAB 6.5 RC2 earlier this week, which Jerry Vonau (especially, and others!) used to polish our installation process for RC3 on Ubuntu 18.04 Server *and* 18.04 Desktop! Download & install IIAB 6.5 Release

Re: [Server-devel] Internet-in-a-Box 6.5 Release Candidate 4

On Mon, May 14, 2018, 9:48 PM Adam Holt <h...@laptop.org> wrote: > Please test the living hell out [of] it before it will very likely be > released Thursday (-: > >http://download.iiab.io/6.5 > > Draft release notes: > >https://github.com/iiab/iiab/wiki/I

[Server-devel] Fwd: IIAB 6.5 Release Candidate 6!

Thanks Jerry & Tim who've now included support for Ubuntu 18.04 static (non-live) installers as well -- details @ PR #805 (Necessary for pre-formatted drives, as Ubuntu 18.04/Server's live installer does not handle pre-existing partitions etc)

[Server-devel] [Announcement] Sugarizer v1.0 is available for your device

Thanks Lionel !! I'm hoping George has time to integrate this into Internet-in-a-Box 6.5 today! But if not, we'll try to make it happen tomorrow, just in time for Our Big Release (ETA Late Thursday, Preview @ http://download.iiab.io/6.5 :) -- Forwarded message - From: Lionel

Re: [Server-devel] Internet-in-a-Box 6.5 Release Candidate 4

Faster And Modern: The Latest Scoop On Moodle 3.5 https://www.moodlenews.com/2018/privacy-better-quizzes-faster-and-modern-the-latest-scoop-on-moodle-3-5/ On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 11:16 AM, Adam Holt <h...@laptop.org> wrote: > On Mon, May 14, 2018, 9:48 PM Adam Holt <h...@laptop.org&g

[Server-devel] Internet-in-a-Box 6.5 Released!

Internet-in-a-Box is a tiny device that brings the best of the Internet to offline communities around the world — Wikipedia, Khan Academy, OpenStreetMap, YouTube science videos, thousands of eBooks, etc — no Internet required! No longer just a school server, Internet-in-a-Box is now used in

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