From: david da...@leeming-consulting.com
Daniel,
Feedback from Nauru. It is very hot and very humid. I find typically that
almost all the children observe the jumping cursor. The recalibration does
help, but it's still a major issue. I am simply unable to use the touchpad in
On Sat, 2009-04-04 at 11:16 +0200, Martin Langhoff wrote:
On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 9:04 AM, Bryan Berry br...@olenepal.org wrote:
Please disregard my frantic e-mails about the USB-Ethernet problem. It
turns out that the USB-Ethernet NIC was not at fault, even when using a
USB 1.1. USB
are the chances
that we can supply the schools with more bandwidth than that?
/Ties
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 9:56 AM, Martin Langhoff
martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 4:49 AM, Bryan Berry br...@olenepal.org wrote:
The ever helpful cjb and Mitch_Bradley directed me to the root
, Mar 23, 2009 at 3:10 PM, Bryan Berry br...@olenepal.org wrote:
We want to use the MSI Wind PC for the XS but it has one big problem. It
only has 1 on-board NIC and no PCI slots. As you know, the XS requires 2
NIC's. We have tried several different USB NIC's and are having serious
Here are some notes from a short IRC conversation I had w/ Rob Mcqueen,
the lead developer of Telepathy
transcript of conversation on #sugar
bemasc: bernie: I am concerned about the fact that in the default
schoolserver set up all users are in one giant shared roster
Robot101 RESOLVED,
On Tue, 2009-03-10 at 09:58 +1300, Martin Langhoff wrote:
On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 12:11 AM, Bryan Berry br...@olenepal.org wrote:
I am worried about the XO's and not the XS.
Now you're starting to see what I've seen :-/ I also worry about your
APs and networking infra -- to support 400
On Mon, 2009-03-09 at 22:36 -0400, Daniel Drake wrote:
2009/3/9 Bryan Berry br...@olenepal.org:
We will have roughly 8+ AP's. We have found that off-the-shelf AP's can
handle around 60-70 users. But that doesn't still doesn't solve the
problem of the XO's getting bogged down by tons
On Sun, 2009-03-08 at 22:36 +1300, Martin Langhoff wrote:
On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 7:52 PM, Bryan Berry br...@olenepal.org wrote:
But 200-300 users could be online at once. I think it will be too
complicated to tell some of them: Don't connect to the AP right now,
you may overwhelm ejabberd
, 2009-03-08 at 16:57 +0545, Bryan Berry wrote:
On Sun, 2009-03-08 at 22:36 +1300, Martin Langhoff wrote:
On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 7:52 PM, Bryan Berry br...@olenepal.org wrote:
But 200-300 users could be online at once. I think it will be too
complicated to tell some of them: Don't connect
I am shopping for some XS options to test out ahead of our spring
deployment.
I have looked at the MSI Wind PC, Eee Box, and the Shuttle X2700N. All
have nice small form factors, low prices, and Atom chips.
I am focused on Intel Atom-based PC's because they seem to be dropping
in price the
On Wed, 2008-11-26 at 09:39 -0200,
If you look for machines with VIA CPUs, they are low power
dissipation, and often cheap too. We have a few samples at 1cc with
heatsinks - no fans!
Will do, tks for the heads up
I definitely need at least 1 Ghz processor because we intend to host an
offline
Martin, can u provide and .md5 for this and future releases? thanks
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On Mon, 2008-11-10 at 11:44 +0530, JV Avadhanulu wrote:
Dear Bryan,
I have a question.
Are children able to transfer files to the XS Server over Wi-Fi in your
deployments?
Our deployments are still using XS-163, which does not have the
xs-backup method. We hope to migrate to a newer version
Martin Langhoff wrote:
Been ruminating on this a bit. The more I think about it, the more
clear it is that DG on the XS is not a good long term solution.
DG may not be a good long term solution, but the pilots need it asap and
it still isn't part of the default install. Greg is right that the
On Mon, 2008-10-06 at 09:18 +0545, Martin Langhoff Wrote wrote:
For example, use two XOs to verify ejabberd
functionality. Use browse to verify that the schoolserver link delivers
the Moodle (site) home page. Use browse to verify internet
connectivity.
Try to access a 'forbidden'
On Fri, 2008-10-03 at 18:57 +1300, Martin Langhoff wrote:
On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 6:52 PM, Bryan Berry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dans can use a good bit of memory but I haven't really calculated how
much. Top shows me a lot dansguardian processes, each using about 10K of
RES memory, 980
Greg,
We will be setting up two labs here in Nepal, one in the next couple
weeks and likely one in the first week of November at Nepal's Dept of
Education. Depending on our experiences in those labs, we want to roll
out a new version of the XS in November to our two pilot schools and
possibly a
it
to cultural norms.
On Fri, 2008-10-03 at 00:17 -0400, John Watlington wrote:
On Oct 2, 2008, at 11:51 PM, Bryan Berry wrote:
Greg,
We will be setting up two labs here in Nepal, one in the next couple
weeks and likely one in the first week of November at Nepal's Dept of
Education
of restriction,
including
blacklists ?
wad
On Oct 3, 2008, at 12:31 AM, Bryan Berry wrote:
Wad, you're right that Dansguardian is a can of worms but it is a very
important can of worms that needs to work w/ minimal configuration, at
least initially.
I would say that the initial install
On Fri, 2008-10-03 at 18:09 +1300, Martin Langhoff wrote:
On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 4:51 PM, Bryan Berry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We will be setting up two labs here in Nepal, one in the next couple
weeks and likely one in the first week of November at Nepal's Dept of
Education. Depending
, Bryan Berry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What's more concerning to me is that ejabberd has never once worked for
me out-of-box. I have always had to reinstall it before getting it to
work. Has anyone out there gotten ejabberd to work consistently on new
XS installs w/ reinstalling
On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 22:57 +0200, Tony Anderson wrote:
Hi,
My apologies - I need to do some research on how to setup the
repo.or.cz. As an immediate expedient, I have attached the relevant
files to this email. When I get a little time, I will set this up
properly. The readme tries to
On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 15:10 +1200, Martin Langhoff wrote:
good to hear we're on the same page.
AIUI, the user only has to get to the initial moodle page, and GG
should take care of the rest.
you've reached beyond my geek lingo, what on earth does AIUI mean? :)
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great see you guys tomorrow!
On Thu, 2008-08-14 at 18:30 +1200, Martin Langhoff wrote:
So, we are all set. In about 18hs we'll be having another meeting. The
wikipage with the info is here:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_Conf_08_AUG_07_Meeting
I've put there a draft agenda from Bryan
On Sun, 2008-08-10 at 18:52 +1200, Martin Langhoff wrote:
If we are having a regular XS meeting, I also have to consider what we
are doing targetting all our other deployments, some of them with
thousands of servers :-)
Absolutely. We may be a small deployment but our work can benefit much
feeling better now, antibiotics really work :)
How about same time this upcoming Friday? Will work on an agenda w/
David on Monday.
I see the key purpose of this meeting is to let you folks what
additional functionality we are working on for Nepal's XS and to make
sure that our additions don't
thanks Michael,
After we get our top priorities working consistently I will definitely
take a closer look at voip and try to look up the folks at fedora.
On Sat, 2008-08-09 at 10:47 -0400, Michael Stone wrote:
On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 12:11:56PM +0545, Bryan Berry wrote:
VoIP would be more
Hey guys,
I am still not feeling well and not sure I can make tomorrow's meeting.
Can we postpone it until next week?
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if we can.
Thanks,
Greg S
PS what's up with the 15 minute Nepal offset? That's even stranger than
India time ;-)
Bryan Berry wrote:
On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 10:54 +1200, Martin Langhoff wrote:
Looking at suitable times, I am thinking of this Friday (NZ time,
Thursday for everyone else
those interested in the XS
later this week? If it's an IRC meeting I will be happy to post it to
the wiki.
Regards,
Bryan Berry
OLE Nepal
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* The olpc-scripts in /etc/sysconfig/olpc-scripts/ are just plain
confusing.
* Ejabberd is extremely flaky
Even the smallest changes to the ejabberd.cfg file seem to make it
crash. I added and extra admin acct to the admins acl on my laptop's
ejabberd install and now ejabberd won't run.
h1. Schoolserver
These are the notes from XS configuration David Van Assche have been
working on this week. It is not yet complete. I will try to put them on
the wiki when they are complete. I haven't included several crucial
pieces of information such as the Shorewall configuration files.
Step
fyi,
There are two repos in the testing.repo that are not valid
[fedora-debuginfo-testing]
[updates-debuginfo-testing]
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Bernie,
Have we configured Browse to display the Flash activities automatically?
Also, have we sugarized Firefox 3?
David, you can install firefox 3 as an rpm however we haven't completed
sugarizing it. Currently we are launching it from the command line. We
will sugarize it as we are using
Hey guys,
I have quite out of the loop on server-devel, been focused on internal
office sysadmin stuff and our e-library. Check it out
http://pustakalaya.olenepal.org I would love to see it somehow work w/
Pootle.
I need to set up a testbed in our office w/ the latest XS stuff. Is
there a new
http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/PuppetIntroduction
I will probably play w/ it tomorrow. could be a neat tool for keeping
xs's up-to-date
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not sure exactly how it worked but I think setting the IP address
listed /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 to the fqdn does the trick
previously had the LAN interface followed by fqdn in /etc/hosts
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it is quite small and it has audio samples
that say the word. Nepali kids seem really like the latter feature.
-Original Message-
From: Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Bryan Berry [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: server-devel@lists.laptop.org
Subject: Re: [Server-devel] Wikiserver on XS
Date: Mon, 30
I have created a wiki page detailing the customizations Nepal has
made to the 703 image, which includes installation of the gnuchess, and
man page rpms, the proprietary flash player, changing the display order
of activities, among other changes
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Nepal:_Testing%2C_QA%
Yama wrote:
Do any of you know if such a content or curriculum list exists and how
I can sign up for it?
To my knowledge, no. But we definitely need one. I know that Bipul,
Kamana, and Saurav from our team would be very much interested. myself
as well.
You can start one yourself. I believe you
Hey guys,
Great meeting last night.
I made a point last night but I just want to reiterate it because it is
quite important for us here in Nepal.
The regular Moodle and Mediawiki UI's are far too complex for novice
computer users. I am specifically thinking of teachers who are very
literate
Martin, have you also looked at http://ebox-platform.com/ ? I have
downloaded and intend to play w/ it today. From the screenshots and
reviews looks quite nice. From what I can tell it is specific to Debian.
If you do intend to build a web-based interface from scratch, can you
use a pretty
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