Re: [Olpc-sysadmin] OLPC Volunteer Infrastructure Group Meeting: [Today]
Having computer problems and plumbing problems @home. Will be there on IRC if possible. HH On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 3:25 PM, Stefan Unterhauser d...@laptop.org wrote: The Volunteer Infrastructure Group (/gang) Meeting is today (April 21th) at 4pm (EST) The Volunteer Infrastructure Group is a team of Volunteer Sysadmins who help maintain services and systems around OLPC and the OLPC/SugarLabs community. The weekly VIG meeting is an excellent chance to get involved, or to be aware of upcoming projects. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC:Volunteer_Infrastructure_Group http://vig.laptop.org/wiki/index.php/User:Dogi http://idea.laptop.org/ideatorrent/ideatorrent/vig/ http://embed.mibbit.com/?server=irc.oftc.netchannel=%23olpc-adminsettings=12a698505c860f99a6ad1051c57975f9noServerTab=falsenoServerNotices=truenoServerMotd=truenick=Guest Meeting Details: Date: April 28th, 2009 Time: 16:00 EST Location: irc.oftc.net #olpc-admin Please feel free to follow up on the olpc-sysadmin mailing list if you would like to add anything to the agenda. Right now the agenda will be set at the start of the meeting. Thanks everyone, Stefan Unterhauser ___ Olpc-sysadmin mailing list olpc-sysad...@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-sysadmin -- Never do anything against conscience, even if the state demands it. --Albert Einstein, in Schilpp, Albert Einstein: Philosopher-Scientist, 1998 ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: [Server-devel] Filtering and authentication
Dear friends, I'm a bit disturbed when I hear people using the euphemism filtering for automated, computerized censorship. I understand there may be legislative or political mandates. However, we should never talk about this as though it is a good or desirable or acceptable thing. I realize this may be seen as off topic from the merely technical discussion of how to implement computerized censorship, but when we calmly discuss technicalities of something which is obviously wrong without questioning it, then the discussion needs to be aired. Filtering is what you do to the water in a fish tank. Censorship is when a state or quasi-state agency proscribes and limits access to certain classes of written material. Here are a few tests we should apply to any such proposed system. Does it allow access to information about Romeo and Juliet? (Underage sex, gang-oriented violence, suicide, murder) Does it allow access to Huckleberry Finn (Slavery, frequent use of the word nigger) Does it allow access to The Catcher in the Rye (Use of fuck, blasphemy, drinking, smoking, lying, promiscuity, implied pederasty) Does it allow access to Heather has Two Mommies (Lesbianism) Does it allow access to Our Bodies, Ourselves (Information about human health, sex and sexuality) Does it allow access to Slaughterhouse-Five (Genocide, strategic bombing, sex) Does it allow access to Of Mice and Men (Retardation, sex, rape, murder) Does it allow access to The Handmaid's Tale (Sexual roles, patriarchy, racism, and theocracy) Does it allow access to The Kite Runner (Homosexuality, rape) Does it allow access to His Dark Materials (Anti-state, anti-catholic, magic and witchcraft) Does it allow access to One Hundred Years of Solitude (Alchemy, murder, debauchery) Does it allow access to 1984 (Torture, illicit sex, anti-state and anti-party politics) Does it allow access to Canterbury Tales (Promiscuity, anti-clericalism) Does it allow access to The Decameron (Anti-state, anti-Catholic and general ribaldry, such as the Third Day, Tenth Story, How to put the Devil in Hell) And in terms of websites particularly, RateMyTeachers.com Peacefire.org Facebook Myspace Orkut Google YouTube Sites which criticize the ruling party or government. Sites which criticize or parody the predominant religion. Blogs, in general And classes of internet services such as Usenet FSP Peer-to-peer file-sharing services such as Bittorrent, EMule, Gnutella In general, censorship is bad and morally wrong; and automated, computerized censorship especially so; and we should never refer to it by a purpose-made and innocuous-sounding term like filtering or treat it as though it is morally or pedagogically acceptable. IMHO, Henry What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books. --Sigmund Freud, 1933 also posted to my blog at http://scanlyze.wordpress.com/ On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 12:47 PM, Anna ascho...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 10:51 AM, Reuben K. Caron reu...@laptop.orgwrote: A free and simple solution, while not bullet proof (no content filter is that I am aware), is Open DNS. They are even CIPA compliant in the US: http://www.opendns.com/solutions/k12/ That's what I set up for our pilot school, which was very easy as the XS's DSL connection has a static IP. OpenDNS provides different filtering options, which you can customize as necessary. Being in the US, CIPA compliance is absolutely vital to retain certain federal funding, and OpenDNS was the quickest and easiest way to accomplish that. Dansguardian can be CIPA compliant, but there are other steps involved and I was wary of unintentionally running afoul of the rules. http://dansguardian.org/?page=faq#15 Not to mention Dansguardian consumes server resources. OpenDNS doesn't use any server resources and you can easily configure the filtering to be CIPA compliant. http://www.opendns.com/solutions/k12/cipa/ As far as limiting the internet connection to authorized XOs, that's an issue we're probably going to run into at some point once we broaden the XS deployment. So far at the pilot school, the staff members connect to the internet with their personal laptops and iPhones, but I haven't really heard any complaints of abuse yet. If your deployment is relatively small, it should be easy enough to add the hardware addresses of the trusted XOs to dhcpd.conf and disallow unknown machines (or play pranks on them as suggested at http://www.ex-parrot.com/~pete/upside-down-ternet.htmlhttp://www.ex-parrot.com/%7Epete/upside-down-ternet.html ). Anna Schoolfield Birmingham ___ Server-devel mailing list server-de...@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel -- The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the
Re: [Server-devel] Filtering and authentication
Reuben, I'm glad to hear that there is no censorship out of the box, and thanks for your temperate and thoughtful reply on a sensitive and controversial issue. Henry On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 11:12 AM, Reuben K. Caron reu...@laptop.org wrote: Henry, Thank you for your thoughts and examples. This is exactly why the XS installer does not contain any content filtering software. It is very much a cultural and deployment specific issue. As Anna said, in their case and in the case of every public and many private K-12 schools in the US they must implement a CIPA compliant content filter in order to continue receiving important telecommunications (e-rate) funding. Again thank you for your thoughts and the litmus tests you provide. Regards, Reuben Henry Edward Hardy wrote: Dear friends, I'm a bit disturbed when I hear people using the euphemism filtering for automated, computerized censorship. I understand there may be legislative or political mandates. However, we should never talk about this as though it is a good or desirable or acceptable thing. I realize this may be seen as off topic from the merely technical discussion of how to implement computerized censorship, but when we calmly discuss technicalities of something which is obviously wrong without questioning it, then the discussion needs to be aired. Filtering is what you do to the water in a fish tank. Censorship is when a state or quasi-state agency proscribes and limits access to certain classes of written material. Here are a few tests we should apply to any such proposed system. Does it allow access to information about Romeo and Juliet? (Underage sex, gang-oriented violence, suicide, murder) Does it allow access to Huckleberry Finn (Slavery, frequent use of the word nigger) Does it allow access to The Catcher in the Rye (Use of fuck, blasphemy, drinking, smoking, lying, promiscuity, implied pederasty) Does it allow access to Heather has Two Mommies (Lesbianism) Does it allow access to Our Bodies, Ourselves (Information about human health, sex and sexuality) Does it allow access to Slaughterhouse-Five (Genocide, strategic bombing, sex) Does it allow access to Of Mice and Men (Retardation, sex, rape, murder) Does it allow access to The Handmaid's Tale (Sexual roles, patriarchy, racism, and theocracy) Does it allow access to The Kite Runner (Homosexuality, rape) Does it allow access to His Dark Materials (Anti-state, anti-catholic, magic and witchcraft) Does it allow access to One Hundred Years of Solitude (Alchemy, murder, debauchery) Does it allow access to 1984 (Torture, illicit sex, anti-state and anti-party politics) Does it allow access to Canterbury Tales (Promiscuity, anti-clericalism) Does it allow access to The Decameron (Anti-state, anti-Catholic and general ribaldry, such as the Third Day, Tenth Story, How to put the Devil in Hell) And in terms of websites particularly, RateMyTeachers.com Peacefire.org Facebook Myspace Orkut Google YouTube Sites which criticize the ruling party or government. Sites which criticize or parody the predominant religion. Blogs, in general And classes of internet services such as Usenet FSP Peer-to-peer file-sharing services such as Bittorrent, EMule, Gnutella In general, censorship is bad and morally wrong; and automated, computerized censorship especially so; and we should never refer to it by a purpose-made and innocuous-sounding term like filtering or treat it as though it is morally or pedagogically acceptable. IMHO, Henry What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books. --Sigmund Freud, 1933 also posted to my blog at http://scanlyze.wordpress.com/ On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 12:47 PM, Anna ascho...@gmail.com ascho...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 10:51 AM, Reuben K. Caron reu...@laptop.org reu...@laptop.orgwrote: A free and simple solution, while not bullet proof (no content filter is that I am aware), is Open DNS. They are even CIPA compliant in the US:http://www.opendns.com/solutions/k12/ That's what I set up for our pilot school, which was very easy as the XS's DSL connection has a static IP. OpenDNS provides different filtering options, which you can customize as necessary. Being in the US, CIPA compliance is absolutely vital to retain certain federal funding, and OpenDNS was the quickest and easiest way to accomplish that. Dansguardian can be CIPA compliant, but there are other steps involved and I was wary of unintentionally running afoul of the rules.http://dansguardian.org/?page=faq#15 Not to mention Dansguardian consumes server resources. OpenDNS doesn't use any server resources and you can easily configure the filtering to be CIPA compliant.http://www.opendns.com/solutions/k12/cipa/ As far as limiting the internet connection to authorized XOs
Re: [support-gang] Education Humor! Get a new perspective...
ROFL!! Kids' Ideas About Love Kids, aged 5 to 10, were asked questions about what they thought of love and marriage. Here's what they said. Love and Marriage: * If falling in love is anything like learning how to spell, I don't want to do it. It takes too long. -- Glenn, age 7 * Love is like an avalanche where you have to run for your life. -- John, age 9 * I think you're supposed to get shot with an arrow or something, but the rest of it isn't supposed to be so painful. -- Manuel, age 8 * No one is sure why it happens, but I heard it has something to do with how you smell. That's why perfume and deodorant are so popular. -- Mae, age 9 * Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good too. -- Greg, age 8 * Once I'm done with kindergarten, I'm going to find me a wife. -- Tom, age 5 * On the first date, they just tell each other lies, and that usually gets them interested enough to go for a second date. -- Mike, 10 * I'm in favor of love as long as it doesn't happen when Dinosaurs is on television. -- Jill, age 6 * One of the people has freckles, and so he finds somebody else who has freckles too. -- Andrew, age 6 * My mother says to look for a man who is kind. That's what I'll do. I'll find somebody who's kinda tall and handsome. -- Carolyn, age 8 * It gives me a headache to think about that stuff. I'm just a kid. I don't need that kind of trouble. -- Kenny, age 7 * One of you should know how to write a check. Because, even if you have tons of love, there is still going to be a lot of bills. -- Ava, age 8 * When somebody's been dating for a while, the boy might propose to the girl. He says to her, 'I'll take you for a whole life, or at least until we have kids and get divorced.' -- Anita, 9 * I'm not rushing into being in love. I'm finding fourth grade hard enough. -- Regina, age 10 * Most men are brainless, so you might have to try more than once to find a live one. -- Angie, age 10 * A man and a woman promise to go through sickness and illness and diseases together. -- Marlon, age 10 * [Being] single is better . . . for the simple reason that I wouldn't want to change no diapers. Of course, if I did get married, I'd figure something out. I'd just phone my mother and have her come over for some coffee and diaper-changing. -- Kirsten, age 10 * Love is foolish...but I still might try it sometime. -- Floyd, age 9 * Love will find you, even if you are trying to hide from it. I been trying to hide from it since I was five, but the girls keep finding me. -- Dave, age 8 Kissing: * When a person gets kissed for the first time, they fall down, and they don't get up for at least an hour. -- Wendy, age 8 * You should never kiss a girl unless you have enough bucks to buy her a big ring and her own VCR, 'cause she'll want to have videos of the wedding. -- Jim, age 10 * Never kiss in front of other people. It's a big embarrassing thing if anybody sees you. But if nobody sees you, I might be willing to try it with a handsome boy, but just for a few hours. -- Kally, age 9 * You learn [how to kiss] right on the spot when the gooshy feelings get the best of you. -- Doug, age 7 * If it's your mother, you can kiss her anytime. But if it's a new person, you have to ask permission. -- Roger, age 6 * It's never okay to kiss a boy. They always slobber all over you. That's why I stopped doing it. -- Tammy, age 10 * I know one reason kissing was created. It makes you feel warm all over, and they didn't always have electric heat or fireplaces or even stoves in their houses. -- Gina, age 8 * The law says you have to be eighteen, so I wouldn't want to mess with that. -- Curt, age 7 * The rules goes like this: if you kiss someone, then you should marry her and have kids with her. It's the right thing to do. -- Howard, age 8 * (on seeing a couple kissing) He is trying to steal her chewing gum! -- Boy, age 6 Beauty: * If you want to be loved by somebody who isn't already in your family, it doesn't hurt to be beautiful. -- Anita, age 8 * Beauty is skin deep. But how rich you are can last a long time. -- Christine, age 9 * It isn't always how you look. Look at me. I'm handsome like anything, and I haven't got anybody to marry me yet. -- Brian, age 7 How People In Love Act: * Lovers will just be staring at each other and their food will get cold. Other people care more about the food. -- Brad, age 8 * They act mooshy. Like puppy dogs, except puppy dogs don't wag their tails nearly as much. -- Arnold, age 10 * All of a sudden, the people get movies fever so they can sit together in the dark. -- Sherm, age 8 * Romantic adults usually are all dressed up, so if they are just wearing jeans it might mean they used to go out or they just broke up. -- Sarah, age 9 * It's love if they order one of those desserts that are on fire. They like to order those because it's just like how their hearts are -- on fire. -- Christine, age 9 * See if the man picks up the check. That's how
Volunteer Infrastructure Group meeting today, irc.oftc.net:#olpc-admin February 24, 2009 4:00 pm EST -05:00 UCT
Volunteer Infrastructure Group meeting today, irc.oftc.net:#olpc-admin February 24, 2009 4:00 pm EST -05:00 UCT Agenda is posted at: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC:Volunteer_Infrastructure_Group#Agenda_for_next_meeting --HH. -- Henry Edward Hardy http://www.linkedin.com/in/henryhardy ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
XOLPC gathering Cosi Sat Feb 7, 2009 noon-2pm
BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//Google Inc//Google Calendar 70.9054//EN VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:REQUEST BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20090204T17Z DTEND:20090204T19Z DTSTAMP:20090204T140358Z ORGANIZER;CN=Henry Hardy:mailto:hhard...@gmail.com UID:6qh3tleihqljn7tqh9kunmf...@google.com ATTENDEE;CUTYPE=INDIVIDUAL;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=NEEDS-ACTION;RSVP= TRUE;cn=xo...@void.printf.net;X-NUM-GUESTS=0:mailto:xo...@void.printf.net ATTENDEE;CUTYPE=INDIVIDUAL;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=NEEDS-ACTION;RSVP= TRUE;cn=cambridge-soc...@laptop.org;X-NUM-GUESTS=0:mailto:cambridge-social@ laptop.org ATTENDEE;CUTYPE=INDIVIDUAL;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=NEEDS-ACTION;RSVP= TRUE;cn=fran...@laptop.org;X-NUM-GUESTS=0:mailto:fran...@laptop.org ATTENDEE;CUTYPE=INDIVIDUAL;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=NEEDS-ACTION;RSVP= TRUE;cn=de...@laptop.org;X-NUM-GUESTS=0:mailto:de...@laptop.org ATTENDEE;CUTYPE=INDIVIDUAL;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE ;CN=Henry Hardy;X-NUM-GUESTS=0:mailto:hhard...@gmail.com CLASS:PRIVATE CREATED:20090204T140355Z DESCRIPTION:XOLPC gathering Cosi Sat Feb 7\, 2009 noon-2pmbrbrThere wil l be a gathering for ex-OLPC employees and contractors at Cosi across from 1cc this Saturday from noon to 2pm. If it is available we will gather in th e back room around behind the counter and kitchen area. We can play with our XO's\, hang out and see our friends again. Also think about mentioning any job leads which might be of interest to others. Please pass this on to other X-OLPC'ers.brbrcheers\,brbr--HH.br clear=allbr-- brHe nry Edward Hardybrhhard...@gmail.combrhttp://www.linkedin.com/in/henryh ardybr+1-734-474-7215brbr\n\nView your event at http://www.google.com /calendar/event?action=VIEWueid=6qh3tleihqljn7tqh9kunmf210. LAST-MODIFIED:20090204T140356Z LOCATION:Cosi at Kendall SEQUENCE:0 STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:XOLPC gathering Cosi Sat Feb 7\, 2009 noon-2pm TRANSP:OPAQUE END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR invite20090204T12.ics Description: application/ics ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Henry Edward Hardy sysadmin final report
*This will be my final weekly report as OLPC sysadmin, at least for now.* Total OLPC RT sysadmin tickets for all time: 1850 current status: new: 13 open: 155 rejected: 181 resolved: 1501 stalled: 0 RT sysadmin tickets resolved by HH since Feb 1, 2008: 1186 Not owned by, but resolved by HH: 176 Total resolved tickets by HH: 1362 of 1501 Percentage of all OLPC resolved RT sysadmin tickets for all time which were resolved by HH: 90.07% Emails to he...@laptop.org: 24,714 OLPC-related emails sent: 1,829 Developer accounts maintained: 330 Email aliases maintained: 715 Mailing lists maintained: 129 Unique web visitors per month, December 2008: 316,144 Wiki.laptop.org pages: 25,747 HH wiki.l.o edits: more than 500 Total wiki.l.o page views for all time: 33,370,841 Total wiki.l.o edits for all time: 192,533 Internal wiki pages: 866 HH internal wiki edits: more than 500 crank.laptop.org current uptime: 83 days, 20:19 pedal.laptop.org current uptime: 58 days, 18:55 solar.laptop.org current uptime: 260 days, 20:31 printers maintained: 5 phones maintained: about 30 servers maintained: 20 desktops maintained: 30 laptops maintained: 25 Mean discount negotiated with vendors: 18% Terabytes of storage maintained: more than 40 (40,000,000,000,000 bytes) (compare with 30 TB online storage of the MIT Data Center Operations Team: http://web.mit.edu/is/dost/ ) Volunteer Infrastructure Groups founded: 1 *Working for OLPC: priceless* cheers, Henry -- Q: What's yellow, and equivalent to the Axiom of Choice? A: Zorn's Lemon. ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
OLPC Volunteer Infrastructure Group meeting for Jan 6, 2009 16:00 EST -05:00 UCT irc.oftc.net:@olpc-admin
OLPC Volunteer Infrastructure Group meeting for Jan 6, 2009 16:00 EST -05:00 UCT irc.oftc.net:@olpc-admin Attendance is recommended/requested for those with root or administrator on any OLPC servers; optional for others. Agenda is listed at: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC:Volunteer_Infrastructure_Group#Proposed_agenda_items_for_next_meeting see you there! --HH. -- We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true. -- Robert Wilensky, 1996 ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
1cc network outage
We had an interruption in network services at 1cc from about 10:30 am to 11:15 am this morning. This affected the reverse proxy server serving the wiki as well as phone and network services at 1cc. --HH. -- We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true. -- Robert Wilensky, 1996 ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: Harvard Square Chipotle One Burrito per OLPC!
We will leave from 1cc for Harvard Square Chipotle at 12:30 sharp this afternoon (Thurs, Dec 18, 2008). So far I have the following people confirmed: 1: Tyler 2: Jeff 3: Brian 4: Seth 5: Frances 6: Justin If you want to get in on this please respond asap, as I am going to open this to volunteers now. There are at least 4 places remaining. --HH. On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 11:36 AM, Henry Edward Hardy he...@laptop.orgwrote: Chipotle in Harvard Square called me Saturday, I won their weekly drawing again! I have set up lunch at Chipotle for us Thursday, Dec 18 at 1pm. First ten to respond to this email will get free food, anything on the menu but bottled drinks. --HH. -- ...since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defenses of peace must be constructed. --Constitution of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), 16 November, 1945 -- Give a person a fish and you feed them for a day; teach that person to use the Internet and they won't bother you for weeks. --anon ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: [support-gang] Harvard Square Chipotle One Burrito per OLPC!
I asked if I could bring 10 people, they said bring ten or as many as you want. The first ten responses are: 1: Tyler 2: Jeff 3: Brian 4: Seth 5: Frances 6: Justin 7: Mel 8: Richard 9: Adam 10. Dan B. If you still want to come and did not make the list, be at Chipotle by 1 and I will try to add you to the free food. If not, the place is pretty cheap and we can still hang out a bit. Suggest bringing your business cards (so we can win more free food later), and XO's if you want to play XO games (no reliable free wireless that plays nice with XO in H Sq, regrettably). See you at Chipotle between 12:45 and 1. --HH. On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 10:54 AM, Daniel Bennett dant...@gmail.com wrote: I've got an 11:00 am meeting in Davis, but I can try to meet you Harvard by 12:30. Bump me off the list if you manage to fill it with Solid responeses. MMM, -Dan On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 10:21 AM, Christoph Derndorfer e0425...@student.tuwien.ac.at wrote: Any chance that you can FedEx me a burrito? I love Chipotle! :-) Christoph Am 18.12.2008 um 16:07 schrieb Henry Edward Hardy hhard...@gmail.com: We will leave from 1cc for Harvard Square Chipotle at 12:30 sharp this afternoon (Thurs, Dec 18, 2008). So far I have the following people confirmed: 1: Tyler 2: Jeff 3: Brian 4: Seth 5: Frances 6: Justin If you want to get in on this please respond asap, as I am going to open this to volunteers now. There are at least 4 places remaining. --HH. On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 11:36 AM, Henry Edward Hardy he...@laptop.org he...@laptop.org wrote: Chipotle in Harvard Square called me Saturday, I won their weekly drawing again! I have set up lunch at Chipotle for us Thursday, Dec 18 at 1pm. First ten to respond to this email will get free food, anything on the menu but bottled drinks. --HH. -- ...since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defenses of peace must be constructed. --Constitution of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), 16 November, 1945 -- Give a person a fish and you feed them for a day; teach that person to use the Internet and they won't bother you for weeks. --anon ___ support-gang mailing list support-g...@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/support-gang ___ support-gang mailing list support-g...@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/support-gang -- Give a person a fish and you feed them for a day; teach that person to use the Internet and they won't bother you for weeks. --anon ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: [Techteam] Weekend reports, holiday plans, PTO reporting
I'll be on vacation and out of town from Saturday, Dec. 20 to Monday, Dec 29, 2008. I will have intermittent internet access during this time. There will be no official OLPC Volunteer Infrastructure Group meeting next week. You may contact Reuben or Ed for *urgent* issues during this time. Otherwise please file an rt ticket, thanks. Happy and safe Holidays to all!! --HH. On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 4:33 PM, Richard A. Smith rich...@laptop.orgwrote: Ed McNierney wrote: (2) Please send email to techteam about your plans for next week and the week after, so we know how to find people (or know they can't be found). I will be in Arkansas Dec 22nd - Dec 26 and return to work on the 29th. -- Richard Smith rich...@laptop.org One Laptop Per Child ___ Techteam mailing list techt...@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/techteam -- Give a person a fish and you feed them for a day; teach that person to use the Internet and they won't bother you for weeks. --anon ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Project name : Retroscope has been set up
Thu, 4 Dec 2008 02:17:26 -0600, Gabriel Burt gabriel.b...@gmail.com wrote: 1. Project name : Retroscope Done. Your tree is here: git+ssh://gb...@dev.laptop.org/git/activities/retroscope Please follow instructions here for importing your project: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Importing_your_project Let us know if you have any problems with your tree. Happy hacking. Cheers, -- Henry Edward Hardy he...@laptop.org -- ...since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defenses of peace must be constructed. --Constitution of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), 16 November, 1945 ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
1cc outage
Network services to 1cc were down this morning Friday December 12 from approximately 6:05 am to 8:40 am. Due to the wiki reverse proxy being at 1cc, wiki.laptop.org was unavailable during this period. --HH. -- ...since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defenses of peace must be constructed. --Constitution of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), 16 November, 1945 ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: [Olpc-sysadmin] wiki.laptop.org upgrade
Ed I was the one who made the decision to go forward with this upgrade. I was present working with Bernie throughout. This was discussed in the Tuesday sysadmin IRC meeting. We have had numerous requests for these enhanced features such as http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=23067 What was done is documented at the machine:pedal page on internal (once it is up again). I will explain this in more detail once the issue with swan is resolved. --HH. On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 5:08 AM, Bernie Innocenti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ed McNierney wrote: What was the motivation for this upgrade? Why did we need to take the wiki offline for several hours during our G1G1 promotion? Thanks. It was offline for approximately 45 minutes (and it was mostly due to a weird problem that took a while to figure out). The main motivation for the upgrade was installing OpenID to enable single-sign-on across all the web applications. Secondarily, it's always safer to keep web applications up to date. I also did a few cleanups to ensure the next updates will be a little easier. -- // Bernie Innocenti - http://www.codewiz.org/ \X/ Sugar Labs - http://www.sugarlabs.org/ ___ Olpc-sysadmin mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-sysadmin -- Twenty years from now, some form of keyboard operation will doubtless be taught in kindergarten, and forty years from now keyboards may be as universal as pencils. --JCR Licklider and Welden Clark, On-line man-computer communication, AIEE-IRE, 1962 ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
HH vacation
I will be on vacation from Friday, November 20 to Monday December 1. During this time Dogi will take care of the critical system needs. Please file a ticket in the normal manner, and understand if he cannot take care of all matters immediately. enjoy your holidays, --HH. -- ...to live effectively is to live with adequate information. --Norbert Wiener, Cybernetics, 1948 ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: [Techteam] dinner around cambridge on sunday
Erik's friend Clark said to invite any OLPC folk to stop by Chipotle in Harvard Square before the party. --HH. On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 12:09 PM, Tomeu Vizoso [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 3:52 PM, Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Plz attend the 7PM Sunday party SJ organized! In Harvard Square, at 33 Dunster St in Cambridge, full details here: http://blog.laptop.org/2008/11/14/party-this-sunday-in-harvard-square/ http://johnharvards.com Sound good to me. Other opinions? Tomeu Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote: On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 12:43 PM, Tomeu Vizoso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Marco and me compared our schedules for the next week trip and thought that, as we arrive a bit late on Sunday, may be a good idea to meet somewhere in Cambridge for dinner. So, what about meeting for having some food and drinks somewhere not far from Davis Square? My plane is scheduled to arrive at 21.45, so I would go directly to wherever people choose. I'm arriving at 20.50. Marco ___ Techteam mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/techteam -- ...to live effectively is to live with adequate information. --Norbert Wiener, Cybernetics, 1948 ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
OLPC outage
The primary OLPC public-facing machines and services were unavailable from approximately 16:30 to 21:30 Tuesday, November 11, 2008. Web, wiki, and mail services were impacted. The apparent cause was a networking problem. --HH. -- ...to live effectively is to live with adequate information. --Norbert Wiener, Cybernetics, 1948 ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Fwd: OLPC gitoroius hub
FYI --HH. -- Forwarded message -- From: Johan Sørensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 2:44 PM Subject: Re: OLPC gitoroius hub To: Henry Edward Hardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Henry, On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 5:00 PM, Henry Edward Hardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Johan and Mitchell, Dear Johan and Mitchell, I heard that you were working on a gitorious hub for OLPC projects. Thank you for taking this on; it's something that we currently don't have the bandwidth to work on ourselves, but if you can make this work and take off with volunteer-run OLPC code projects using it, I would very much like to talk with you both about making it an official part of OLPC's infrastructure (blessing it with a laptop.org URL, advertising it to users, and so forth). We're excited to see work of this sort being taken up by the community! Thank you! As a newcomer to the OLPC community (who yet has to contribute something other than ideas and existing code), I'm quite amazed at the openess towards improving the development way within the community so far. This can only be a good thing. I'd also like to invite you both, along with any team members working on the project, to our volunteer infrastructure group's (VIG) IRC channel (#olpc-admin on OFTC). If you need any resources, information, or help as you're working on an OLPC gitorious, please don't hesitate to ask. We also have weekly VIG meetings on Tuesday afternoons at 4pm EST in that IRC channel, and a mailing list, http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-sysadmin, if any of you are interested in joining. The VIG wiki home is: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC:Volunteer_Infrastructure_Group Thanks again, and best of luck. Thank you, I'll try and stop by. --Henry Edward Hardy OLPC Sysadmin and occasional buccaneer [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ...to live effectively is to live with adequate information. --Norbert Wiener, Cybernetics, 1948 Cheers, JS -- ...to live effectively is to live with adequate information. --Norbert Wiener, Cybernetics, 1948 ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Volunteer Infrastructure Group meeting today, irc.oftc.net:#olpc-admin November 4, 2008 4:00 pm EDT -04:00 UCT
Volunteer Infrastructure Group meeting today, irc.oftc.net:#olpc-admin November 4, 2008 4:00 pm EDT -04:00 UCT Agenda is posted at: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC:Volunteer_Infrastructure_Group/2008-11-04/preAgenda --HH -- βλέπομεν γὰρ ἄρτι δι' ἐσόπτρου ἐν αἰνίγματι -- שאול התרסי , First Letter to the Corinthians 13:12 ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Project name : GCompris has been set up
Sun, 12 Oct 2008 01:17:14 +0200, Bruno Coudoin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. Project name : GCompris Done. Your tree is here: git+ssh://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/git/activities/gcompris Please follow instructions here for importing your project: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Importing_your_project Let us know if you have any problems with your tree. Happy hacking. Cheers, -- Henry Edward Hardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- βλεπομεν γαρ αρτι δι εσοπτρου εν αινιγματι -- שאול התרסי , First Letter to the Corinthians 1:13 ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Project name : BundleActivity has been set up
Tue, 21 Oct 2008 17:14:38 -0400, Lewis Barnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. Project name : BundleActivity Done. Your tree is here: git+ssh://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/git/activities/bundleactivity Please follow instructions here for importing your project: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Importing_your_project Let us know if you have any problems with your tree. Happy hacking. Cheers, -- Henry Edward Hardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- VILLAGER: We should defend ourselves! An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth! TEVYE: Very good. That way the whole world will be blind and toothless. --Joseph Stein, Fiddler on the Roof ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
procps testing
Albert Cahalan is the maintainer of a procps package, which we use for debugging the XO and which I use extensively on the OLPC servers. This package includes ps and top. I told him last week he could use dev for testing the new procps on the AMD-64 processors. It is necessary for proper operation of crank, pedal, and many of our other back-end machines that these tools work correctly and reliably. --HH. transcript follows: --- Log opened Sun Oct 19 23:45:53 2008 23:45 -!- Irssi: Starting query in oftc with cahalan 23:45 cahalan Is it OK to use dev.laptop.org for a few odds and ends? (no real load) For example, I ought to test procps on x86_64 before a release. --- Log closed Sun Oct 19 23:51:52 2008 --- Log opened Tue Oct 21 15:38:58 2008 15:38 hhardy albert if it is for olpc-related and doesn't damage the system should be fine 15:39 hhardy cahalan: albert if it is for olpc-related and doesn't damage the system should be fine --- Log closed Tue Oct 21 15:44:53 2008 --HH. -- VILLAGER: We should defend ourselves! An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth! TEVYE: Very good. That way the whole world will be blind and toothless. --Joseph Stein, Fiddler on the Roof ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
dev.laptop.org downtime
All services on dev.laptop.org (principally trac and git) were down today, October 17, 2008 from about 4:30 pm EDT -4 UCT to 5:15 pm EDT. Service was restored by the DOST team at MIT rebooting the server by remote hands. We are currently investigating the cause of the problems. --HH. -- The best material model of a cat is another, or preferably the same, cat. --Norbert Wiener, Philosophy of Science, 1945 ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: [Server-devel] physical security issue
Recommend: lockable, secure case, with built-in securement loops that could attach to a bike chain or cable. --HH. On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 1:37 PM, John Watlington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sameer, We currently do not recommend that an AA be used in schools. Scalability with AAs is a problem, due to problems with the mesh protocols. Hence my comment about likely needing an external USB/network interface for the upstream connection. This might make the physical security problem easier to solve, as now the server can be located anywhere in the school, and only the AP needs to be positioned for optimum wireless coverage. wad On Oct 8, 2008, at 1:23 PM, Sameer Verma wrote: On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 8:42 PM, John Watlington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, Walter, we still hold hope for XOs as school servers for very small schools.The problem with this is insufficient memory and insufficient disk space. While an external disk may alleviate the second problem, it has poor reliability and is a very attractive item for theft. But there is nothing stopping a regular laptop from serving as a school server. An external network interface may be needed for the upstream connection. wad We do have a laptop (Fujitsu P2120@ approx. 900MHz Crusoe + 384 MB RAM) that works as a school server (XS 0.4) for OLPC-SF meetings, but it doesn't see more than 20~30 laptops via one AA, so scalability isn't something we've tested on it. Of course, if the laptop were more powerful and had more RAM, it should scale up. A couple of people at OLPC-SF have suggested alternatives like the one I mentioned for places that can afford to have a lot of bandwidth dropped in (donated) by a provider. I just wanted to ping the list and see if anyone else has thought along this route. If/when anything develops on our end, I'll post it here. cheers, Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Information Systems San Francisco State University San Francisco CA 94132 USA http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://opensource.sfsu.edu/ On Oct 7, 2008, at 11:25 PM, Walter Bender wrote: Clarification: the XO is not the laptop I am proposing for the server. Wad can speak to this. -walter On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 11:24 PM, Walter Bender [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One idealet (not worthy of being called an idea): What if the server were a laptop that the teacher could take with him/her? Pros: The school need not be secure. Cons: Price, and of course, laptops can be stolen. But it does put the server in the hands of a presumably trusted individual in the community. -walter On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 11:20 PM, Sameer Verma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 8:00 PM, John Watlington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You keep pushing for centrally hosted school servers. Are you sure you don't work for the phone company ? Last time I checked, San Francisco State University wasn't in the telco business. Again, unless you have a 100 Mbit connection from the school to the upstream ISP, you will need something with a disk and a significant amount of memory present in the school. OK. I don't disagree about the need for physical security of the machine, just the proposed solution. OK. Any other solutions? I'm all ears. Sameer wad On Oct 7, 2008, at 10:47 PM, Sameer Verma wrote: As if discussions on this list aren't lively enough, here's another issue to look at. While I was in Jamaica, I met with several people who work with their school districts, and many pointed out that if a server was to stay physically resident at the school, it will need a lot of physical security. The most common problem is theft. The other problem will be physical damage (just because somebody can). It is not uncommon in some of these If the school server is hosted at an ISP upstream, we need something small (maybe an XO?) at the school that can VLAN or VPN over to the school server at the ISP/Data Center. Any ideas? cheers, Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Information Systems San Francisco State University San Francisco CA 94132 USA http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://opensource.sfsu.edu/ ___ Server-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel ___ Server-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org ___ Server-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel -- Information wants to be free, and code wants to
Volunteer Infrastructure Group meeting today, irc.oftc.net:#olpc-admin October 7, 2008 5:15 pm EDT -04:00 UCT
Volunteer Infrastructure Group meeting today, irc.oftc.net:#olpc-admin October 7, 2008 5:15 pm EDT -04:00 UCT Agenda Need secretary Wiki and website scalability/mirroring -- deployments + G1G1 are coming! download.l.o scalability/mirroring Google, archive.org others? Lfaraone committee on single-signon options SAGE Sysadmin Ethics Statements GPG State of rt rt instances for Adric and private Big Sister oncall schedule Big Sister tuning Big Sister maintainer new business http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC:Volunteer_Infrastructure_Group --HH. -- Information wants to be free, and code wants to be wrong. --Steve Gibson, Security Now! #141, April 24, 2008 ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Project name: Infoslicer has been set up
Mon, 6 Oct 2008 10:24:05 -0400, Walter Bender [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. Project name : infoslicer Done. Your tree is here: git+ssh://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/git/activities/infoslicer Please follow instructions here for importing your project: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Importing_your_project Let us know if you have any problems with your tree. Happy hacking. Cheers, -- Henry Edward Hardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination. --Frederick P. Brooks, The Mythical Man-Month, 1975 ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Project name : xo-lambda has been set up
Thu, 25 Sep 2008 01:26:50 +0200, Antoine van Gelder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. Project name : xo-lambda Done. Your tree is here: git+ssh://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/git/activities/xo-lambda Please follow instructions here for importing your project: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Importing_your_project Let us know if you have any problems with your tree. Happy hacking. Cheers, -- Henry Edward Hardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Questions are a burden to others. Answers are a prison for oneself. --Patrick McGoohan, The Prisoner, 1967 ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: #8650 NORM 8.2.1: Can't install MIT certificates
In general, we want to be able to accept all self-signed certs (I'd say by default). And should have an option to accept expired certs as well (as with Harvard a few months ago). --HH. On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 2:36 PM, Zarro Boogs per Child [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: #8650: Can't install MIT certificates ---+ Reporter: lcl | Owner: erikos Type: defect | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: 8.2.1 Component: browse-activity | Version: not specified Resolution: |Keywords: Next_action: never set|Verified: 0 Blockedby: |Blocking: ---+ Changes (by mstone-xmlrpc): * owner: = erikos * component: not assigned = browse-activity * milestone: Not Triaged = 8.2.1 Comment: changed by irc user cjb: This looks like something we want to fix. -- Ticket URL: http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/8650#comment: One Laptop Per Child http://laptop.org/ OLPC bug tracking system -- I once was designing a computer game... life within my game was depressing, so people sought relief within VR. He answered, By definition, virtual reality is indistinguishable from reality. Does this mean that the virtual reality in your game is as bad as reality? -- Robert Serocki, Mon, 22 Jun 92 10:29:06 -0700 ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
dev.laptop.org unplanned downtime
Dev.laptop.org went down at 03:14 this morning. The reason was I edited the network config of dev when I meant to be editing its mirror, owl in another window, and then rebooted it when I meant to reboot owl. This means that pootle, trac and git are unavailable at present. I will bring it back up as soon as I can get into the colo facility after 6:oo am EDT. Will fix asap. I do not anticipate any data loss, and I had just finished rsyncing all of dev it to owl before the mistake happened. I apologize for the inconvenience and I will do my best to make sure this doesn't happen again. Henry Hardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Infrastructure Group meeting today 20080819 irc.oftc.net/#olpc-admin 5:15 pm EDT -04:00 UCT
*OLPC's Volunteer Infrastructure Group (infrastructure-gang) will be meeting today 2008-08-19 irc.oftc.net/#olpc-admin 5:15 pm EDT -04:00 UCT* topics: triage and migration of sysadmin docs from internalwiki rt pootle wiki drupal big sister content server mailing list installation/configuration of crank and pedal mirrors at 1cc recruitment update roles/responsibilities on wiki general discussion *There will be no further 4:00 pm internal sysadmin meetings until further notice. These will be scheduled on an as-needed basis.* --HH. ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: [Server-devel] resolv.conf
Wad, If you are pointing to localhost in resolv.conf, will there be at least a caching DNS named server to catch it? --HH On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 10:08 AM, John Watlington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've figured out more about why my first install of 0.4 went so badly. For some reason, the network interfaces weren't configured properly on first boot (even though the files were in the right places). In conjuction with having the cable to my wired net plugged into the LAN port, nothing was happening. What worried me in addition to the above was that DNS had completely broken. Any DNS queries on the server (host/dig/nslookup), such as schoolserver, were hanging. But queries directed to the DNS server on localhost were just fine. The answer is that /etc/resolv.conf should probably point to localhost, not the address of one of the interfaces (172.18.0.1). Just in case... I'll git the change after a suitable comment period. Second install went like a breeze, wad ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Media Lab: Fwd: [outages] Major file system outages and ML upgrade next week
There may be some disruption of services at 1cc this week due to the announced MIT Media Lab upgrades. At the moment we have no DHCP services at 1cc. --HH. -- Forwarded message -- From: Jon Ferguson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 5:22 PM Subject: [outages] Major file system outages and ML upgrade next week To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi all, In addition to the outages this weekend (while we rearrange our machine room), we will also be upgrading our central file server file.media.mit.edu (and its sidekick dell3.media.mit.edu) next week. While this service interruption will be less major in scope than the ones this weekend, it will still affect many systems here at the Lab. It also needs to be done during a weekday so that we can have the expert, on-site assistance of the file system software vendor. The outage will happen either next Thursday, August 28, or possibly next Wednesday, August 27 (it depends on the availability of the file system expert). Plan for Thursday and we'll let you know as soon as possible if it becomes Wednesday. During the outage everyone's central Unix home directories, and machines such as hub.media.mit.edu, ml.media.mit.edu, and file.media.mit.edu (including any file shares they serve like machub and winhub), will be unavailable. People's personal Web sites served by web.media.mit.edu will also be unavailable. The outage will start in the late afternoon around 3pm or so and will continue all night. Everything should be back online before the next morning. Email and general network access will be unaffected. There is a much less used file server, dell3.media.mit.edu, which will go offline the day *before* the file.media.mit.edu outage. This should only affect a small number of people who use this server to mount the /mas tree under special circumstances in order to work around compatibility problems with using file.media.mit.edu directly. This is mainly Mac OS X people who have configured the automounter to provide access to the /mas tree (and they should know who they are). Also during this time we will be taking the opportunity to upgrade ml.media.mit.edu. This will involve a significant upgrade to ml's hardware and operating system. Currently, ml.media.mit.edu is an AlphsServer DS20 running Tru64 UNIX v4.0G. It will be replaced by a Dell PowerEdge running Linux. Email, ssh, and ftp services will work as they do now, and the upgrade brings with it newer versions of many utilities and packages. However, in the event you have compiled some Tru64 (aka Digital UNIX) binaries for use on ml, they, of course, will no longer work. Our apologies for any inconvenience as we try to fit in all these infrastructure upgrades before the start of the semester. Please alert us to any problems this may cause so we can work out solutions as quickly as possible. Cheers, NeCSys If you have questions, problems, comments, etc, send them to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks! ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Volunteer Infrastructure Group wiki has been created
FYI/FYC: OLPC's Volunteer Infrastructure Group wiki page has been created. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC:Volunteer_Infrastructure_Group --HH. ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Announcing OLPC's Infrastructure-group! Organizational meeting Sunday at 2:00pm EDT, -04:00 UCT, on irc.oftc.net:#olpc-admin
Are you an experienced *NIX sysadmin looking for a way to volunteer for One Laptop Per Child? I am pleased to announce OLPC's Infrastructure-group! We are looking for a few good sysadmins to assist with our public-facing infrastructure. Possible initial tasks include: - Trac and git maintenance - wiki admining - rt setup and administration - olpc-admin IRC channel moderation - olpc-sysadmin mailing list administration We will consider expanding the scope of the project as we learn more about what works. The following infrastructures are in place to support this initiative: - Mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED], - http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-sysadmin - IRC channel: irc.oftc.net:#olpc-admin *IRC organizational meeting: Sunday at 2:00pm EDT, -04:00 UCT, on irc.oftc.net:#olpc-admin* Thanks to Greg Dekoenigsberg of the Fedora Project for his support and input. cheers, Henry Edward Hardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Project name : fedora-xo has been set up
Wed, 13 Aug 2008 22:44:21 +0200, Sebastian Dziallas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. Project name : fedora-xo Done. Your tree is here: git+ssh://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/git/activities/fedora-xo git+ssh://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/git/activities/fedora-xo git+ssh://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/git/activities/fedora-xo Please follow instructions here for importing your project: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Importing_your_project Let us know if you have any problems with your tree. Happy hacking. Cheers, -- Henry Edward Hardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Project Name: olpc-bundler has been set up
Wed, 13 Aug 2008 15:48:10 -0400, Erik Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: May we please have a shared git repo named olpc-bundler for me (erik), sj, and mako? Done. Your tree is here: git+ssh://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/git/projects/olpc-bundler Please follow instructions here for importing your project: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Importing_your_project Let us know if you have any problems with your tree. Happy hacking. Cheers, -- Henry Edward Hardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Project name : Mastermind has been set up
Thu, 29 May 2008 00:48:38 +0200, Mateusz Haligowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Project name : Mastermind Done. Your tree is here: git+ssh://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/git/activities/mastermind Please follow instructions here for importing your project: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Importing_your_project Let us know if you have any problems with your tree. Happy hacking. Cheers, -- Henry Edward Hardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Project name : PlayGo has been set up
Sat, 19 Jul 2008 19:30:52 -0300, Andrés Ambrois [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Project name : PlayGo Done. Your tree is here: git+ssh://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/git/activities/playgo Please follow instructions here for importing your project: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Importing_your_project Let us know if you have any problems with your tree. Happy hacking. Cheers, -- Henry Edward Hardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: [Server-devel] mailserver+squirrelmail
Cool. It would be nice to see this documented on the wiki. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/School_server --HH. On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 5:53 AM, David Van Assche [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: If anyone is interested, I can post the procedure to get postfix+dovecot+sasl and squirrelmail working on the XS server ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Project name :Language Learning with Larry is set up
Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:41:12 -0500, Meli Kim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. Project name : Language Learning with Larry Done. Your tree is here: git+ssh://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/git/activities/larry Please follow instructions here for importing your project: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Importing_your_project Let us know if you have any problems with your tree. Happy hacking. Cheers, -- Henry Edward Hardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Project name : SimpleRPG is set up
Tue, 06 May 2008 16:39:01 -0400, Mel Chua [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. Project name : SimpleRPG Done. Your tree is here: git+ssh://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/git/activities/simplerpg Please follow instructions here for importing your project: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Importing_your_project Let us know if you have any problems with your tree. Happy hacking. Cheers, -- Henry Edward Hardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Announcing the Fedora OLPC Special Interest Group
[Cross-posted from [EMAIL PROTECTED] --HH] - *From*: Greg Dekoenigsberg gdk redhat com - *To*: fedora-announce-list redhat com - *Subject*: Announcing the Fedora OLPC Special Interest Group - *Date*: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 10:20:54 -0400 (EDT) -- The engineers at OLPC are busy building an educational experience for the kids of the world. They are basing their excellent work on Fedora. Their time is stretched perilously thin. Every hour an overworked OLPC engineer spends doing Fedora work is an hour they could be spending doing something else. We in the Fedora community can therefore have a huge, direct, and immediate impact on the success of the OLPC project. Thus, I am proud to announce the formation of the Fedora OLPC Special Interest Group. Our mission: to provide the OLPC project with a strong, sustainable, scalable, community-driven base platform for innovation. Immediate Goals: 1. To identify and take responsible ownership of as many OLPC base packages as possible. 2. To maintain an excellent Sugar environment for Fedora, including a dedicated Sugar spin. 3. To identify useful opportunities for collaboration (infrastructure, localization, etc.) We should convene our first meeting as soon as possible. If you are interested in participating, please join the Fedora OLPC mailing list here and introduce yourself: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-olpc-list --g https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2008-July/msg9.html ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Project name : Conozco Uruguay is set up
Thu, 17 Jul 2008 20:45:51 -0300, Gabriel Eirea [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. Project name : Conozco Uruguay Done. Your tree is here: git+ssh://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/git/activities/conozco-uruguay Please follow instructions here for importing your project: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Importing_your_project Let us know if you have any problems with your tree. Happy hacking. Sayamindu will please assist in setting up the pootle translation, thanks! Cheers, -- Henry Edward Hardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Project name : xomail is set up
Wed, 16 Jul 2008 06:49:44 +0530, Shikhar Bhushan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. Project name : xomail Done. Your tree is here: git+ssh://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/git/activities/xomail Please follow instructions here for importing your project: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Importing_your_project Let us know if you have any problems with your tree. Happy hacking. Cheers, -- Henry Edward Hardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Project name : socialcalc is set up
Sun, 13 Jul 2008 17:24:22 +0530, Manusheel Gupta wrote: 1. Project name : socialcalc Done. Your tree is here: git+ssh://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/git/activities/socialcalc Please follow instructions here for importing your project: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Importing_your_project Added accounts for danb, lcloss and kspreeti with membership in the socialcalc group. Set up mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Let us know if you have any problems with your tree. Happy hacking. Cheers, -- Henry Edward Hardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Correction: Project: Picker is set up
Tue, 8 Jul 2008 13:13:42 +0200, Riccardo Lucchese [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. Project name :Picker Done. Your tree is here: git+ssh://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/git/activities/picker Please follow instructions here for importing your project: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Importing_your_project Let us know if you have any problems with your tree. Happy hacking. Cheers, -- Henry Edward Hardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] (rlucchese not rcarrano, apologies) ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
pedal and crank (dev) slowness tonight due to backups 20080701-2008-0702
I am backing up crank and pedal to the new machines owl and swan today. Doing this during business hours was causing slowness in git today so I have desisted until midnight tonight, when I will restart the backups. There may be periodic slowness due to backups and moving things around over the holiday and weekend as well. Henry [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Project: Departamentos is set up
Fri, 23 May 2008 19:44:36 -0300, marcel r [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. Project Name: Departamentos Done. Your tree is here: git+ssh://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/git/activities/departamentos Please follow instructions here for importing your project: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Importing_your_project Let us know if you have any problems with your tree. Happy hacking. Cheers, -- Henry Edward Hardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Project name : Typing Turtle Activity is set up
Tue, 24 Jun 2008 11:51:57 -0700, Kate Scheppke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. Project name : Typing Turtle Activity Done. Your tree is here: git+ssh://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/git/activities/typing-turtle Please follow instructions here for importing your project: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Importing_your_project Let us know if you have any problems with your tree. Happy hacking. Cheers, -- Henry Edward Hardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Project name : olpc-getone-activities is set up
Sun Jun 22 20:51:53 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. Project name : olpc-getone-activities Done. Your tree is here: git+ssh://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/git/activities/olpc-getone-utils Please follow instructions here for importing your project: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Importing_your_project Let us know if you have any problems with your tree. Happy hacking. PS please don't set your rt tickets to priority 80 unless it is really an emergency! lol Cheers, -- Henry Edward Hardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Project name : Physics activity is set up
Wed, 18 Jun 2008 16:45:13 -0400 Brian Jordan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. Project name : Physics activity Done. Your tree is here: git+ssh://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/git/activities/physics-activity Please follow instructions here for importing your project: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Importing_your_project Let us know if you have any problems with your tree. Happy hacking. Cheers, -- Henry Edward Hardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Project name : Model is set up
Mon, May 26, 2008 at 8:45 AM, Bobby Powers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. Project name : Model Done. Your tree is here: git+ssh://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/git/activities/model Please follow instructions here for importing your project: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Importing_your_project Let us know if you have any problems with your tree. Happy hacking. Cheers, -- Henry Edward Hardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Project name : Bundlemaker is set up
Tue, 03 Jun 2008 12:45:21 -0400, Mel Chua [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. Project name : Bundlemaker Done. Your tree is here: git+ssh://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/git/projects/bundlemaker Please follow instructions here for importing your project: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Importing_your_project Let us know if you have any problems with your tree. Happy hacking. Cheers, -- Henry Edward Hardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Project name: EduBlog has been set up
Mon, 26 May 2008 23:23:20 -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Project Name: EduBlog Done. Your tree is here: git+ssh://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/git/projects/EduBlog Please follow instructions here for importing your project: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Importing_your_project We are anticipating receiving a new RSA key for the second committer. Let us know if you have any problems with your tree. Happy hacking. Cheers, -- Henry Edward Hardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Project: listen-spell is set up
Wed, 11 Jun 2008 17:16:41 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. Project name : Listen and Spell Done. Your tree is here: git+ssh://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/git/projects/listen-spell Please follow instructions here for importing your project: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Importing_your_project Let us know if you have any problems with your tree. Happy hacking. Cheers, -- Henry Edward Hardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
