CIFS will be strategic in some settings, but not included in kernel

2008-08-24 Thread George Hunt
Two factors tip the balance between bloat and functionality in favor of including CIFS file system in the kernel. 1. The decision to double boot some XOs with XP. 2. The need of IT professionals, in small roll-outs, to use the resources at hand (MS configured machines hooked up to

Re: CIFS will be strategic in some settings, but not included in kernel

2008-08-25 Thread George Hunt
/8/24 George Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Two factors tip the balance between bloat and functionality in favor of including CIFS file system in the kernel. First, for any network FS to actually be usable we would need to do significant work on the UI. Including the smb client code is a trivial

Re: CIFS will be strategic in some settings, but not included in kernel

2008-08-25 Thread George Hunt
. George On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 7:52 AM, Martin Langhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 11:37 PM, George Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been wanting to create an Activity that would add value and bridge the MS-linux gap. I discovered that pyNeighborhood is open

Re: CIFS will be strategic in some settings, but not included

2008-08-26 Thread George Hunt
I wonder if CIFS vs WebDAV is an either/or type of decision. My first google shows a driver effort called davfs2. This appears to implement network access via a driver (ala nfs, smb). If it turns out to be usable, I can see that a single project could satisfy Martin's 6 requirements (via

Re: [support-gang] FW: OLPC Projects/VideoEditing and Video Edit

2009-07-23 Thread George Hunt
immediately. I'll be back in NY and more available after Aug 4. George Hunt On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 11:01 AM, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.comwrote: Hi All, Here is a great opportunity for someone to pick up where Robert left off and contribute something really useful, fun, educational

Mentor request for PyDebug Activity

2009-10-14 Thread George Hunt
I am excited about developing a tool to help me develop other XO Activities. When I shared my ideas with Adam Holt, he suggested that I seek a mentor, or a few partners to help me clarify my ideas, and increase the usefulness of the end product. I am writing this to request such help. As a

Hosting Request for PyDebug Activity debugger

2009-10-14 Thread George Hunt
code repository, or push their own. There is no need to list non-committer developers. Username Full name SSH2 key URLE-mail - -- #1 ghunt George Hunt

Hulahop Webview widget closes parent(s) when hidden

2009-10-16 Thread George Hunt
Hi everybody, I have been trying to use the WebView widget from hulahop to display documentation in an Activity. I don't have enough experience to know where to start looking to fix the problem I'm having: The following test program shows the different widget behavior comparing gtk.Textview

sugar equivalent of uname?

2010-01-02 Thread George Hunt
I've spent all morning googling to find the documentation of how to determine which sugar build I'm running under -- without success. If someone could point me in the right direction, I'd really appreciate it. George ___ Devel mailing list

Re: sugar equivalent of uname?

2010-01-02 Thread George Hunt
Thanks, the rpm solution works on at least builds 767, 802, and 1.5 FC11 backported to XO1.0. I'l go with that . George On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 5:37 PM, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 9:09 PM, George Hunt georgejh...@gmail.com wrote: I've spent all morning

Help Activity and FC11

2010-01-02 Thread George Hunt
Hi Seth, gang, I just cloned the git version of help at sugarlabs.org (activity.infoversion 9). A couple of months ago I downloaded the then current version of help, because I wanted to include a browser based help system in a debugger I am writing. I discovered, much to my annoyance, that the

gitorious and uploading public key

2010-01-13 Thread George Hunt
Hi everyone, Earlier I successfully uploaded a public ssh key to git.sugarlabs.org. But then I decided to change key pairs, created a new set, and then tried to upload a the new one. I'm getting the following message: This sshkey is being created, it will be ready pretty soon I came back a

Help with permissions under Rainbow sought

2010-04-17 Thread George Hunt
Hi all, I've been trying, in the last few days, to put the finishing touches on the PyDebug activity I have been developing. I am using an ipython console application which writes a history file to the home directory (I changed the HOME environment to SUGAR_ROOT/data). Rainbow changes UID for

Re: Help with permissions under Rainbow sought

2010-04-18 Thread George Hunt
appreciation for your help, George On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 8:10 AM, Sascha Silbe sascha-ml-ui-sugar-olpc-de...@silbe.org wrote: On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 09:26:23PM -0400, George Hunt wrote: I am using an ipython console application which writes a history file to the home directory (I changed the HOME

Hulahop browser screen width XO1.0 vs XO1.5

2010-04-18 Thread George Hunt
Hi again, My activity uses Hulahop Browser for its help system. The default browser on the XO`1.0 seems set up for 800x600. The CSS width specs on the functioning HELP activity add up to 800 px wide and everything works out ok. But on F11 XO1.5, the same help activity only renders about 2/3

Re: Hulahop browser screen width XO1.0 vs XO1.5

2010-04-20 Thread George Hunt
.as a solution George On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 6:06 PM, Seth Woodworth s...@isforinsects.comwrote: It would be far easier to simply change the .css file and layout of the html content in the help activity for the latest versions of sugar. On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 10:27 PM, George Hunt georgejh

Re: Hulahop browser screen width XO1.0 vs XO1.5

2010-04-22 Thread George Hunt
Hulahop/webview? George On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 1:39 PM, Tomeu Vizoso to...@tomeuvizoso.net wrote: On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 04:27, George Hunt georgejh...@gmail.com wrote: Hi again, My activity uses Hulahop Browser for its help system. The default browser on the XO`1.0 seems set up

Request to have pydebug added to the components drop-down during create new ticket in trac

2010-04-24 Thread George Hunt
Perhaps I'm too impatient, but I found no pointer to the administrator of the trac system. I'd like to start accumulating feedback for the pydebug application I am developing. I'd like PyDebug to be added to the drop-down list on the create new ticket page. Who should I contact? Thanks, George

Re: Request to have pydebug added to the components drop-down during create new ticket in trac

2010-04-24 Thread George Hunt
help George On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 6:51 AM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.comwrote: On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 3:06 AM, George Hunt georgejh...@gmail.com wrote: Perhaps I'm too impatient, but I found no pointer to the administrator of the trac system. I'd like to start accumulating

a Git question

2010-05-22 Thread George Hunt
there is human intervention that I need to request. Anyone have ideas on how I should proceed? George -- Forwarded message -- From: George Hunt georgejh...@gmail.com Date: Thu, May 20, 2010 at 5:32 PM Subject: Re: UI Ideas - My new XO To: Bruce Bell-Myers br...@bellmyers.com I did

resizing NAND partition in XO 1.5 --annoying journal is full after 2 days use

2010-06-18 Thread George Hunt
A little googling surfaced a discussion among developers, about the size of the image to create for FC11. Build 125 is apparently 1.7G I'm playing around with 125, and have run out of NAND. 'df -h' shows only 1.7G is currently being used, whereas 'fdisk -l' shows 4G available. I'm not enough of

Re: [support-gang] Fwd: Redesigning: Library, Read, Get-Books, and Content bundles

2010-07-24 Thread George Hunt
Gary, Yioyos, Martin, The trick is to prevent circumstantially malicious co-Activities from doing harm, without at the same time preventing cooperation between functional blocks essential to the satisfaction of user needs. I ran into this issue, when I was writing my python debugger PyDebug. I

XoPhoto needs a few intrepid testing volunteers.

2010-08-22 Thread George Hunt
Hi everyone, I've been working pretty regularly since April on an application to manipulate images found in the journal. Probably the best description is at http://georgejhunt.com/olpc/xophoto/xophoto.html. I'd appreciate help in identifying and correcting my oversights, bugs, kludges. . . I

Re: Re: Re: XoPhoto needs a few intrepid testing volunteers.

2010-08-23 Thread George Hunt
Hi Tony and all, This is the way I think XoPhoto works, and does for me on build 850 1.5. When XoPhoto loads, it checks for at least 10 images, (mime_type .png,.jpg,.tif). If there're not enough to play around with, load 11. If there are more than 10, don't load the journal with anything, just

glade.so missing from /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/gtk-2,0/gtk

2011-07-08 Thread George Hunt
Hi all, An application I am writing requires glade.so which exists in 862 (and I believe all previous builds), but missing in build 872. using mlocate verifies this difference-- updatedb locate glade.so succeeds in 860, and fails in 872. In my Activity import gtk.glade fails! George

Re: glade.so missing from /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/gtk-2, 0/gtk

2011-07-16 Thread George Hunt
Hi James, I read the resolution of #11053 I'd be happy to update http://wiki.laptop.org/go/PyGTK/Hello_World_Tutorial#using_Glade to reflect that fact glade is no longer supported. But I hesitate to act without checking with those of you more in the center of things. George On Sun, Jul 10,

Re: Basic Electricity Text in French?

2011-10-29 Thread George Hunt
installation of electrical networks: http://www.eyrolles.com/BTP/Livre/les-installations-electriques-9782862275888 Tell me if that fits your/their needs and we can exchange w/ them if they want a specific topic book. cheers, Xavier Carcelle. On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 06:09:25PM -0400, George Hunt

yum error -- cannot retrieve metalink on xo 12.1.0 build 21016o2.zd

2012-07-06 Thread George Hunt
Hi all, On a XO-1.75 with a new install of build 21016o2.zd: yum install mlocate returns the error: cannot retrieve metalink for repository fedora. Issuing URLGRABBER_DEBUG=1 yum check-update returns lots of stuff -- most interesting seems to be remote certificate has expired message. Has

Re: yum error -- cannot retrieve metalink on xo 12.1.0 build 21016o2.zd

2012-07-06 Thread George Hunt
That was it! thanks, George On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 8:21 AM, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 12:29 PM, George Hunt georgejh...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, On a XO-1.75 with a new install of build 21016o2.zd: yum install mlocate returns the error

Man pages on XO

2012-07-22 Thread George Hunt
Hi all, I'm working on turning the XO-1.75 build 12.1.0 into a school server. I want to make loading man pages an option. I used yum downloadonly to fetch the man-pages.rpm. Used rpm -qipl man-pages to verify that they load to /usr/share/man/*. Then when I installed them using rpm -ivh

Sandisk extreme 32GB and 16GB dont initialize in XO-1.75

2012-10-07 Thread George Hunt
Hi all, I've been working on a XO-1.75 as XS project. The smallest form factor XS would use an SD card for School Server storage. So I purchased fast, large SD cards from Amazon. These cards work in my mac, and they initialize, and appear to work on the XO-1.5 running build 860. The XO-1.75

Re: Sandisk extreme 32GB and 16GB dont initialize in XO-1.75

2012-10-18 Thread George Hunt
All my XO-1.75's are prepped for the SF summit this weekend. I can do it after Sunday. George On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 3:22 PM, Chris Ball c...@laptop.org wrote: Hi, On Thu, Oct 18 2012, John Watlington wrote: The kernel should recognize this limitation, and not try to negotiate for lower

Re: [support-gang] Customization Sticks fails on 13.1.0 12.1.0 for XO-1

2013-03-09 Thread George Hunt
for Choice 1, and the build process is a little cleaner. Cheers KG On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 12:05 PM, Holt h...@laptop.org wrote: As we're leaving to a 250 XO-1 deployment in Haiti within days, George Hunt I were fine-tuning Nick Doiron's Haiti customization stick of 19 Sugar Activities

Re: [support-gang] switching libertas driver into AP mode in XO-1.75?

2013-03-21 Thread George Hunt
Thanks James for the complete picture. I'll try to make sure that we preserve the essentials of your information about the libertas driver in a wiki somewhere. It does seem reasonable to avoid support headaches whenever possible, especially when the interface to an external AP is so well

My first School Server Installation

2013-03-29 Thread George Hunt
Hi all, I returned from Port Au Prince, Haiti 5 days ago, and I've been monitoring the 3G USB modem connection via openvpn. It's not perfect, but it looks like they are getting an average of 10 hours of internet connectivity per day. I configured opendns as a content filter, and some content in

ANNOUNCEMENT XSCE 0.3 Final Release

2013-06-06 Thread George Hunt
of springtime work -- traveling days from quite different parts of North America to make this community product real. George Hunt ___ support-gang mailing list support-g...@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/support-gang

Re: [Server-devel] Best XSCE strategy for us in Pacific with XO-1.5 2GB Testing XSCE 3 on XO 1.5 2GB os855

2013-06-19 Thread George Hunt
identifying and serializing my SD cards because any additional stickers rub off, and/or cause the SD card to become stuck in the XO. Jerry noticed that the write protect switch can get toggled. George On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 5:25 AM, George Hunt georgejh...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks James. I

External hard disk testing for use with IIAB (internet in a Box) on XO based XSCE servers

2013-06-23 Thread George Hunt
I have a number of 2.5 SATA drives, that I've used for I don't know how long. I put one in a startech.com external hard drive encosure model sat2510u2E. I wrote a little cron stimulated script to write, and check for file existence, and almost immediately got failures. I was using a USB hub

ANNOUNCING School Server Community Edition Version 0.4 Release Candidate 1.

2013-08-24 Thread George Hunt
As regularly as the changing of the seasons, another version of XSCE is nearing release. This release provides something for both end users and deployers. End user: - Internet-in-a-Box (http://Internet-in-a-Box.orghttp://internet-in-a-box.org/ ) - Integration of Pathagar

Sugar on a $100 tablet!

2013-09-07 Thread George Hunt
There's a complex Sugar on Android solution. At this point, it's only for hackers. But it just might help us achieve the $100 Sugar machine. Refer to http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2151092. The idea is to run a fedora arm image compiled to run under android, in the background.

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar on a $100 tablet!

2013-09-11 Thread George Hunt
at 1:47 AM, Ruben Rodríguez qui...@sugarlabs.orgwrote: 2013/9/7 George Hunt georgejh...@gmail.com: There's a complex Sugar on Android solution. At this point, it's only for hackers. But it just might help us achieve the $100 Sugar machine. Refer to http://forum.xda-developers.com

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar on a $100 tablet!

2013-09-28 Thread George Hunt
, Ruben Rodríguez ru...@activitycentral.com wrote: 2013/9/11 George Hunt georgejh...@gmail.com: I have a nexus, and I'm anxious to learn how to swap out OS, reload stuff, etc. The first step is to install Ubuntu on it, you can follow this howto: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Nexus7/Installation

Re: [support-gang] [Sugar-devel] Sugar on a $100 tablet!

2013-09-29 Thread George Hunt
Just as another data point, Vivitar manufactured the $150 xo-tablet, and also is offering a $100 Camelio tablet which has a similar footprint. It has an external micro SD card, like the xo-tablet, but not the hdmi video out. I purchased one, and contacted the manufacterer, to see if they would

Re: [support-gang] [Sugar-devel] Sugar on a $100 tablet!

2013-09-30 Thread George Hunt
Ruben, Once the sugar rpms's are loaded via the install shell script, what remote ssh command will bring up the sugar desktop on the Nexus? (the sugar-toolkit-gtk3 rpm was not found. I'm wondering if that that is critical to bringing up the desktop). George On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 10:58 AM,

Re: [Server-devel] How to create a screencast

2013-10-28 Thread George Hunt
: Sorry, Santi has been pulled away to work on other projects for a couple of days to a week. He is not ignoring you :( Just deep in a frustrating project :) On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 10:51 PM, George Hunt georgejh...@gmail.com wrote: Santi, In the demo last week, I think you said that you

Re: latest HaitiOS-0.6 very close

2013-12-18 Thread George Hunt
On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 10:11 AM, Adam Holt h...@unleashkids.org wrote: Updates on my 4 suggestions from midnight 10hrs ago--forgive me for capitalizing names, so we can all focus on getting the very best OS into Sora's hands for Haiti during this home stretch Before Midnight EST Tonight: 1)

Re: latest HaitiOS-0.6 very close

2013-12-18 Thread George Hunt
Summary of where we stand (I think): Adam's list: 1 and 3 done. 2. I added qf119.rom to boot. It can be renamed to bootfw.zip, and flash romwith the X key. cludgy! I admit. But maybe other issues take precedence 4 awaits time and energy On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 1:12 PM, Tim Moody

Re: latest HaitiOS-0.6 very close

2013-12-18 Thread George Hunt
: Wednesday, December 18, 2013 4:57 PM To: Tim Moody Cc: Sandra / Sora Edwards-Thro ; Curt Thompson ; Developers List ; George Hunt ; Adam Holt Subject: Re: latest HaitiOS-0.6 very close http://mock.laptop.org/cgit/local.13.2.0-xo1/tree/RPMS Use the 'plain' link on the right to save the rpm

Re: latest HaitiOS-0.6 very close

2013-12-18 Thread George Hunt
: On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 06:20:38PM -0500, George Hunt wrote: I'll test Jerry's hypothesis that the q2119 wasn't signed properly by substituting an official one. I'm out this evening. So whatever happens will need to be in the next 4 hours. We've never signed anything called q2119

Re: [support-gang] SD Sugar boot for XO-1

2014-05-15 Thread George Hunt
On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 6:56 PM, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 11:57:31AM +, tkk...@nurturingasia.com wrote: Is there a complete step by setp quick instruction that I can create a SD card that will boot Sugar for XO-1 machines? I am happy SD card

Libertas firmware

2015-06-04 Thread George Hunt
I downloaded James new kernel. And found that it did indeed bring up the graphics chip, and considerable functionality.(light-dm seems to take 90%cpu for 30 seconds, before xfce desktop comes up -- a symptom I have not fully explored) But when I looked at the dmesg, there was mention of not being

Re: Libertas firmware

2015-06-04 Thread George Hunt
tried removing sdio8686.bin from /lib/modules/libertas again. And this time it failed (as I expected it to). Too much focus, or too much wine! Time for bed On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 11:05 PM, George Hunt georgejh...@gmail.com wrote: I downloaded James new kernel. And found that it did indeed

OS Builder patch for FC22

2015-06-07 Thread George Hunt
With James kernel rpm, it seemed like a next step to make a ZD image. The following were found to be necessary: From bb527d3f0a5f22d93a9ebcba17f43fcf8c7b4d47 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: root root@localhost.localdomain Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2015 06:08:42 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] first build on fc22

Kernel 4.1 branch at dev.laptop.org/git/olpc-kernel limping on FC22

2015-06-03 Thread George Hunt
Lots of learning, and only a little progress: The learnings are somewhat questionable (sometimes I was changing more than one thing at a time) 1. The kernel config file does not need to be in any order (a sorted config works just as well) 2. Changed settings can be appended to kernel

Access Point capability for the XO1.5 -- the dream of internet in a box on an SD card

2015-07-13 Thread George Hunt
Back in the 2010 timeframe, there was an effort to add Access Point capability to first the XO1, and later the XO1.5. Of particular interest to me is [1], which documents in detail how to install and configure the Thinfirm libertas driver. I found evidence in the git repo [2] that the driver was

olpc-dm/Xorg segfault only if during systemd boot

2015-09-07 Thread George Hunt
Context: XSCE server code loaded on 128GB SD card running on XO1.5. We've added lots of services, and for generic servers, disabled the GUI (systemctl disable olpc-dm). But for aesthetic reasons, it might be more attractive to start up in sugar/mate, and return the memory, if the user really

Re: olpc-dm/Xorg segfault only if during systemd boot

2015-09-07 Thread George Hunt
I missed one obvious clue, thinking that Xorg.log was the strategic place to look. /var/log/messages (search olpc-dm) shows - "olpc-dm.service holdoff time over, scheduling restart" - and then "xauth: file /var/tmp/olpc-auth/.Xauthority does not exist" googling "Xauthority create olpc"

Re: OS builder XO1 image on SD card boot questions

2015-09-02 Thread George Hunt
James, Thanks for the information. You are a wonderful source. Do you know of a publicly visible kernel for XO1 that was built with 0.7.7 version of dracut-modules-olpc? I looked through the ini files at the os-builder git repo, and they all seem to point to kernel rpms built before 6/2014.

Re: OS builder XO1 image on SD card boot questions

2015-09-02 Thread George Hunt
I realized that rpmdropbox f18-xo1 would be the place to look for recent kernels. I'm feeling slow tonight. Thanks again On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 7:28 PM, George Hunt <georgejh...@gmail.com> wrote: > James, > > Thanks for the information. You are a wonderful source.

OS builder XO1 image on SD card boot questions

2015-09-02 Thread George Hunt
The image I created with OS builder, and loaded onto an SD card, stalls with initramfs complaining that dracut does not have a rootfs declared in cmdline. Strangely, at the OK prompt, I can declare " root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 to boot-file" and then "boot", and I can get into the new image. There's a

Re: olpc-dm/Xorg segfault only if during systemd boot

2015-09-11 Thread George Hunt
ences. > > On Mon, Sep 07, 2015 at 03:21:10PM -0700, George Hunt wrote: > > I missed one obvious clue, thinking that Xorg.log was the strategic > place to > > look. > > > > /var/log/messages (search olpc-dm) shows > > > > • "olpc-dm.service holdoff time

Simple stuff I don't know

2015-09-16 Thread George Hunt
What is the best way to autoexecute the browser at system boot time? I tried .xsession, and then I realized that there's a lot to learn about Sugar, and asking for advice might be a more direct approach. Can there be separate paths for Mate and Sugar?

OS builder generated ZD, 4 button install on unlocked XO1

2016-01-17 Thread George Hunt
I've been exploring an exchange with James Cameron: So then as I understand it, on an unlocked machine, the installers would need to type "fs-update 32018ht0.zd" at the OK> prompt to kick off the install. Is that correct? No, an unlocked machine will work like a locked machine when given

Re: Alas, I'm giving up on Access Point function for XO1.5

2016-04-07 Thread George Hunt
; a packet is being received late just after the > system sends the card an unrelated command, and you might observe a > response to tuning of the ping interval. > > Do you have your latest kernel source available anywhere? > > On Sat, Apr 02, 2016 at 11:44:03AM -0700, George Hun

[Server-devel] Who wrote http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_Install_Server?

2012-01-30 Thread George Hunt
Hi everyone, I'm new to this list. I met Tony Anderson in Haiti, and again at the San Francisco OLPC Summit in late 2011. He prevailed upon me to spend some time trying to figure out how to rebase XS on a more recent Fedora Core. I just recently used pungi to gather together FC16 rpms into an

Re: [Server-devel] Who wrote http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_Install_Server?

2012-01-30 Thread George Hunt
Vonau wrote: On Mon, 2012-01-30 at 12:40 -0500, George Hunt wrote: Hi everyone, I'm new to this list. Hi George: I'm the author of the XSAU-F11 based rework of the XS that Sridhar is referring to. I met Tony Anderson in Haiti, and again at the San Francisco OLPC

Re: [Server-devel] Who wrote http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_Install_Server?

2012-01-31 Thread George Hunt
knowledge to bear on my crazy ideas. If you have thoughts, shortcuts, code to do XS rpmbuilds, and ideas on testing, both would be necessary, and useful. George On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 12:03 AM, Jerry Vonau jvo...@shaw.ca wrote: On Mon, 2012-01-30 at 21:28 -0500, George Hunt wrote: Thanks Jerry

Re: [Server-devel] Who wrote http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_Install_Server?

2012-01-31 Thread George Hunt
wrote: On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 11:40 AM, George Hunt georgejh...@gmail.com wrote: I met Tony Anderson in Haiti, and again at the San Francisco OLPC Summit in late 2011. He prevailed upon me to spend some time trying to figure out how to rebase XS on a more recent Fedora Core. Yesterday I

Re: [Server-devel] openVPN on the XS

2012-02-01 Thread George Hunt
that also run in the client mode. openVPN runs on the server in server mode. This setup allows us to ssh into the XS from the two client laptops whenever the servers get online via DSL or GPRS/3G. openVPN takes care of the whole NAT business nicely. I know that George Hunt was trying to do

[Server-devel] Sources for XS RPM's need a consistent home and/or definitive script

2012-02-08 Thread George Hunt
Hi Daniel, et al, Perhaps, after the push is over, I'd like to see posted in some public place, a script to fetch all of the sources for the RPM's that make up the new XS. I say this because as I was trying to recreate XS-0.6, i became confused whether sources were at

[Server-devel] Soliciting Test scripts for remote XS assistance, and my education

2012-02-28 Thread George Hunt
Hi everyone, Recently, I tried to help a person in the Philippines to get an XS up and running. I wasn't happy with the inefficiency of question-answer via email, even to get the most basic information. I would like to set up a git repository at laptop.org where we can all contribute our useful

[Server-devel] A quick networking question

2012-02-28 Thread George Hunt
Hi, In Haiti, Adam and I have been trying to get a school server online. We're finding that volunteers are going through the school server to the internet with their laptops, and he wants to turn that off, at least for now. I've turned off /proc/net...ip_forward and verified that there is no

[Server-devel] XS on XO

2012-03-06 Thread George Hunt
Hi Everyone, Following suggestions on this list, and a cookbook at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Ubuntu_On_OLPC_XO, I loaded kernel 2.6.31 from olpc build 860 on top of XS-0.7. After a few false starts, it comes up! Now I'm confronted with the same problem I was having on the FitPc I was trying to

[Server-devel] named problem resolved-but not understood

2012-03-06 Thread George Hunt
Hi again, Please disregard my previous question. . . Trial and error indicates that if the two option elements query-source port 53 and query-source-v6 port 53 are commented out, caching, ping, and default contents of resolv.conf function according to plan. Why did it work before? Maybe CentOS

[Server-devel] School Server system speed diagnotic

2012-03-29 Thread George Hunt
Hi all, In the Philippine deployments, the local decision makers have tried to buy locally, and the machines use roughly 80 watts, idling, bursting to 120 during startup. The inadequate power situation causes rolling brown outs and load shedding. I've been unable to document the decrease in

[Server-devel] Looking for new low power server hardware candidate

2012-04-02 Thread George Hunt
Hi everyone, I left my fitpc2 and msi servers in the Philippines, hoping they would be pressed into service in a classroom situation. So now I'm in the market for another toy. I remember Sameer saying somewhere in the email compost that he had found new interesting server hardware, but a google

Re: [Server-devel] Looking for new low power server hardware candidate

2012-04-10 Thread George Hunt
at 8:04 PM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.comwrote: On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 2:03 AM, George Hunt georgejh...@gmail.com wrote: I left my fitpc2 and msi servers in the Philippines, hoping they would be pressed into service in a classroom situation. So now I'm in the market for another

Re: [Server-devel] Looking for new low power server hardware candidate

2012-04-11 Thread George Hunt
adequate. George On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 10:55 PM, John Watlington w...@laptop.org wrote: Why not an XO-1.75 ? On Apr 10, 2012, at 8:04 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote: On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 2:03 AM, George Hunt georgejh...@gmail.com wrote: I left my fitpc2 and msi servers in the Philippines

Re: [Server-devel] [OLPC School Server] Comment: First Learnings about ARM

2012-04-15 Thread George Hunt
I need some pointers. My target machine is a Dreamplug. In the Fedora 17 arm distro, there are separate releases for ARMv5 and ARMv7. I have been playing with the ARMv5 download which includes kernels for tegra, imx, omap, and armv5tel (the latter is what I have been using). I created a FAT16

Re: [Server-devel] XS procurement recommendations (new hardware - Nosy Komba, Madagascar)

2012-04-15 Thread George Hunt
I like the Fitpc2i, which has two ethernet ports. I recently purchased one and would be happy to do whatever testing makes sense. (haven't yet purchased the sata drive though). I can atest to the 5 watts, idle. The blurb that came with it says it's capable of 2 watts standby, but we'd need to

[Server-devel] xs-otp tarball pkg?

2012-05-16 Thread George Hunt
Hi all, I've finally got my arm compiler verified, and booted my first ARM kernel on an XO (using a Trimslice native compiler and fedora 17). So now I'm trying to repackage all the XS packages for ARM. I don't know enough to interpret the cryptic comment in the changelog of the xs-otp git

[Server-devel] School server on ARM related question: Systemd on fc17 doesn't see ethernet dongles or USB sticks

2012-05-19 Thread George Hunt
Hi all, There are no entries in /var/log/messages or dmesg relating to my test USB stick at /dev/sdb1, even though during the boot process, dracut sees an 8 GB sdb as well as the 132GB hard disk on sda that is the rootfs (so I think the proper drivers are in the kernel). I'm playing with the

Re: [Server-devel] School server on ARM related question: Systemd on fc17 doesn't see ethernet dongles or USB sticks

2012-05-19 Thread George Hunt
Thanks, George On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 4:06 PM, rihowa...@gmail.com rihowa...@gmail.comwrote: On May 19, 2012, at 12:22 PM, George Hunt wrote: Hi all, There are no entries in /var/log/messages or dmesg relating to my test USB stick at /dev/sdb1, even though during the boot process

Re: [Server-devel] ARM on XS -- how can I integrate my work?

2012-06-27 Thread George Hunt
On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 11:27 AM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 8:14 AM, George Hunt georgejh...@gmail.com wrote: I'm not done yet, but I've been making progress on porting XS code to ARM by making modifications to DSD's XS-0.7. Upon his suggestion, I have

[Server-devel] armv7hl vs armv7l

2012-07-06 Thread George Hunt
Hi Peter, You probably know the answer to this question off the top of your head. I've played with fedora's Trimslice armv7hl, using it to recompile XS rpms. Now in conversation with OLPC-Australia, I've agreed to try to apply my stuff to the XO-1.75 pre-release 12.1.0, which I believe is based

Re: [Server-devel] armv7hl vs armv7l

2012-07-06 Thread George Hunt
how to override the default arch, so that yum will do what I want it to do. But I have google for that! Thanks for your help, George On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 6:39 AM, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 10:42 AM, George Hunt georgejh...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Peter

[Server-devel] Is a Community Edition of XS happening? or should it?

2012-07-29 Thread George Hunt
...@sfsu.edu, George Hunt georgejh...@gmail.com, Xavier Carcelle xavier.carce...@gmail.com Cc: Alex Kleider aklei...@sonic.net, Jerry Vonau jvo...@shaw.ca Skype excerpt :) [7:39:35 AM] Jerry Vonau: Sorry I haven't gotten back to you earlier, think I know what the issue is with ejabberd if you change

[Server-devel] XSCE wants to become a framework for the next 10 years

2013-02-28 Thread George Hunt
Tony, et al, The group of developers, working on the XSCE, are indeed attempting to build upon the good work that Daniel Drake did on the XS-0.7. But we are trying to extract the essential information from the history of the school server up to this point. - The XS-0.6, based upon FC4, was

[Server-devel] ds-backup

2013-04-05 Thread George Hunt
Hi Daniel, I noticed that you were working on ds-backup recently. I was trying to get XSCE running on fc18, and encountered the issue of fedora dropping mod-python (see https://fedorahosted.org/rel-eng/ticket/5165). Is it ok to just carry the fc17 version along in our repo, and try to see if it

Re: [Server-devel] Journal backup on school server

2013-04-07 Thread George Hunt
leave Kigali on 12/23 so it must be before then). Yours, Tony On 12/09/2012 04:11 PM, George Hunt wrote: Wow Tony, Your solution definitely needs to be part of the mix as we go forward. Can you send me copies of the scripts, or the changes you made to accomplish these objectives? If we

Re: [Server-devel] Journal backup on school server

2013-04-07 Thread George Hunt
, there is no change needed client-side. Apache needs to have wsgi installed (in XS-0.7 it is). Then all that is needed is a file in httpd/conf.d. I have also attached the one I am using. On 04/07/2013 06:04 AM, George Hunt wrote: Hi Tony, I'm playing with ds-backup now, because one

Re: [Server-devel] ds-backup

2013-04-17 Thread George Hunt
a relatively localized change. George On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 6:24 PM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 3:16 PM, George Hunt georgejh...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Daniel, I noticed that you were working on ds-backup recently. I was trying to get XSCE running on fc18

Re: [Server-devel] 12 Volt power system for School Servers

2013-05-31 Thread George Hunt
I'd be interested in ddwrt on tp-link 2030's, primarily because of the Nepali data, that they can handle 25 clients, and because they run on 5v. Add to that a DC-DC buck converter to 5v at the remote end of poe. I'm testing

Re: [Server-devel] ANNOUNCEMENT XSCE 0.3 Final Release

2013-06-12 Thread George Hunt
, George Hunt wrote: It's my understanding that 32GB cards work, but that 64GB cards do not (hearsay, and not direct personal experience). Think you ran across this issue before: http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2012-October/036017.html I'm interested in working

Re: [Server-devel] Best XSCE strategy for us in Pacific with XO-1.5 2GB Testing XSCE 3 on XO 1.5 2GB os855

2013-06-18 Thread George Hunt
the command line as olpc and as root. So I believe that indicates that 64GB drives do work on the XO-1.5. George On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 10:55 PM, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 09:20:20PM -0400, George Hunt wrote: I ordered a 64GB SD, and have it in hand

Re: [Server-devel] Best XSCE strategy for us in Pacific with XO-1.5 2GB Testing XSCE 3 on XO 1.5 2GB os855

2013-06-18 Thread George Hunt
, George Hunt georgejh...@gmail.com wrote: I followed the suggestions at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Release_notes/10.1.0#External_SD -- substituting 31035o1.zd for the earlier OS64. devalias fsdisk /sd/disk@1:0 fs-update u:\os64.zd after the reboot, the df command indicated rootfs had a size

[Server-devel] External hard disk testing for use with IIAB (internet in a Box) on XO based XSCE servers

2013-06-23 Thread George Hunt
I have a number of 2.5 SATA drives, that I've used for I don't know how long. I put one in a startech.com external hard drive encosure model sat2510u2E. I wrote a little cron stimulated script to write, and check for file existence, and almost immediately got failures. I was using a USB hub

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] Fwd: XSCE links to filesfrom Moodle

2013-06-26 Thread George Hunt
David, It sounds like moodle (a php application running under the httpd server, which is itself running as the user apache) does not have read permission on the files you would like to serve. I checked my instance of XSCE. My /library folder has root:root user and group with read and execute

Re: [Server-devel] [support-gang] Value of remote access to School Servers.

2013-07-03 Thread George Hunt
The central openvpn server would be configured to pass out local (unroutable in the wider internet) addresses in the 10.0.0.0/8 subnet to each client. There would be one public/private key pair distributed with the XSCE software distribution, for testing. The server would be configured to accept

Re: [Server-devel] [support-gang] XSCE Sprint

2013-07-09 Thread George Hunt
Thank you Tony for you perspective. So can we begin to look at implementation details? Perhaps discussions about how to implement new features belong on server-devel rather than support gang. My apologies if so. But if XSCE begins to offer features that are really used and needed in the

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