RE: Signed build for Italy

2008-05-07 Thread Giulia D'Amico
OTECTED]; devel@lists.laptop.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Signed build for Italy> > Kim Quirk wrote:> > > Hi Bernie,> > Yes SKU 23 will come from Quanta with the 'ak' flag set (no activation > > lease needed). To 'roll' your own builds, yo

Re: Signed build for Italy

2008-05-06 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 10:25 AM, Bernie Innocenti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > In my mind, if we play this card well, I'm confident Florence could > set an example of how a deployment could truly act as a contributing > member of a wider olpc community rather than just a customer. Awesom

Re: Overloaded Networks, was Re: Signed Build for Italy

2008-05-01 Thread John Watlington
On May 2, 2008, at 1:46 AM, Bryan Berry wrote: > do the new XO builds point to "schoolserver" instead of > update.laptop.org? I haven't checked that in forever.\ No, that is where they search for the identity manager, which provides them with the jabber server to use. > if they point to schools

Re: Overloaded Networks, was Re: Signed Build for Italy

2008-05-01 Thread Bryan Berry
do the new XO builds point to "schoolserver" instead of update.laptop.org? I haven't checked that in forever. if they point to schoolserver for jabber server, then there is no problem On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 01:25 -0400, John Watlington wrote: > This probably means you don't have the school server s

Re: Overloaded Networks, was Re: Signed Build for Italy

2008-05-01 Thread John Watlington
This probably means you don't have the school server set up properly somehow. You need the identity manager running on a machine which is discoverable by the laptop at schoolserver in the default DNS domain returned by the DHCP server. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/School_Identity_Manager When

Re: Overloaded Networks, was Re: Signed Build for Italy

2008-05-01 Thread Bryan Berry
> A caveat here: Unless the machine is reflashed, the basic ID in jabber > will remain the same (the laptop keys are the same.) > > Cheers, > wad In my experience it remains something like update.laptop.org or ship2.laptop.org even after server registration. IMHO this is the single biggest pro

Re: Overloaded Networks, was Re: Signed Build for Italy

2008-05-01 Thread John Watlington
On May 2, 2008, at 12:50 AM, Bryan Berry wrote: > >> For any number of laptops greater than 20, we recommend that they >> be registered with a school (presence) server, so that they don't use >> salut (clique). This is REALLY true when using active antennas, but >> still true when using access

Re: Overloaded Networks, was Re: Signed Build for Italy

2008-05-01 Thread Bryan Berry
> For any number of laptops greater than 20, we recommend that they > be registered with a school (presence) server, so that they don't use > salut (clique). This is REALLY true when using active antennas, but > still true when using access points. > > wad Wad, will registering w/ the school s

Overloaded Networks, was Re: Signed Build for Italy

2008-05-01 Thread John Watlington
> On May 2, 2008, at 12:24 AM, Bryan Berry wrote: >> I have an unproven theory that the __LINK-LOCAL__ XMPP traffic >> (clique) can >> disable networking on XO's when you get more than 40 XO's in a small >> space and using AP's. This is just from anecdotal experience not >> serious >> researc

Re: Signed Build for Italy

2008-05-01 Thread Bryan Berry
forgot to clarify I have an unproven theory that the __LINK-LOCAL__ XMPP traffic (clique) can disable networking on XO's when you get more than 40 XO's in a small space and using AP's. This is just from anecdotal experience not serious research. On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 07:48 +0545

Re: Signed Build for Italy

2008-05-01 Thread Bryan Berry
>This, or the laptops will have to remain in English. I don't think >this >is acceptable for the municipality. Also, OLPC support for regular >builds >at this time is limited to one new release every 6 months. Sorry to chime in so late, but the Italian team can change the language in the firmwar

Re: Signed build for Italy

2008-05-01 Thread Walter Bender
> There's a deployment guide that gives a lot of good advice, but it > is not a public document and I only have an old draft of it. If you are referring to the Deployment Guide that I wrote, it is posted in the wiki: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Deployment_Guide enjoy. -walter On Thu, May 1, 2008

Re: Signed build for Italy

2008-05-01 Thread Bernie Innocenti
Giulia D'Amico wrote: > Bernie, > > It's great your support for Sugar, but before taking any decision, > please be avare that the Municipality of Florence in primis but also all > those financing the program in the city never make this kind of request. > The Muncipality of Florence needs to kn

Re: Signed build for Italy

2008-04-30 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, > A side note: they also badly want to rename Pippy because > apparently it's an obscenity in Turkish :-) We're already localizing it to a different name in some other cases -- "Peppy" in Spanish locales, and "Python" in Mexico's build. Since Sugar uses gettext for the activity name, w

Re: Signed build for Italy

2008-04-30 Thread Bernie Innocenti
Kim Quirk wrote: > Hi Bernie, > Yes SKU 23 will come from Quanta with the 'ak' flag set (no activation > lease needed). To 'roll' your own builds, you will need developer keys. Ok. > I can make you the technical contact on the activation server to get the > developer keys, or you can designat

Re: Signed build for Italy

2008-04-29 Thread Kim Quirk
Hi Bernie, Yes SKU 23 will come from Quanta with the 'ak' flag set (no activation lease needed). To 'roll' your own builds, you will need developer keys. I can make you the technical contact on the activation server to get the developer keys, or you can designate someone else. You can get the lis

Re: Signed build for Italy

2008-04-29 Thread Bernie Innocenti
C. Scott Ananian wrote: >> Italy is not interested in anti-theft of course. Could they >> have the laptops of SKU 23 already unlocked from the factory? > > Technically yes, but I am worried about Italy isolating themselves > from future updates from OLPC. The "deployment team" will have to >

Re: Signed build for Italy

2008-04-29 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 2:25 PM, Bernie Innocenti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just talked with the people of OLPC Italia. They asked me > again if they could roll their own build on all laptops after > they receive them. > > They'be put the translations in Pootle already. I can help > the

Signed build for Italy

2008-04-29 Thread Bernie Innocenti
Hello Kim, I just talked with the people of OLPC Italia. They asked me again if they could roll their own build on all laptops after they receive them. They'be put the translations in Pootle already. I can help them creating the custom build. They say they will test it themselves of course. T