Re: [Server-devel] PDA mambot on XS

2010-10-04 Thread Mike Dawson
Hi David, Had that idea myself though didn't manage to see it through to a complete implementation yet. I guess the first thing you have to figure out is what devices people have. Formats are going to be a time consuming pain for mobile x / mobile y etc. No getting around that. I would

Re: [Server-devel] PDA mambot on XS

2010-10-01 Thread Mike Dawson
Hi, Was a topic I considered a little while back working with CMS systems out here... Depends what class of mobile device was one is dealing with - if you're talking PDAs and more advanced phones then just a template / Joomla running in XHTML mode should be fine as long as it's reasonably put

Re: [Server-devel] Mirroring the olpc wiki for disconnected School Server?

2010-07-29 Thread Mike Dawson
Actually httrack is by default not evil to servers - and there are plenty of options there to make it wait x seconds between pages, limit the transfer rate, etc. We've used it to copy a fair few websites and it hasn't hurt anyone. Everything else related to offline wikis lives here:

[Server-devel] Configuration Management Automation : cfpull

2010-07-29 Thread Mike Dawson
Hi, This has been on my agenda for a while but only recently got around to doing it ... What we need is a mass way of configuration XS servers and XO clients that works even with limited connectivity and when the machine is sometimes connected and sometimes not... cfengine is a very nice

Re: [Server-devel] Mirroring the olpc wiki for disconnected School Server?

2010-07-27 Thread Mike Dawson
There are a few plugins that deal with exporting MediaWiki... However if you don't have access to it you can use httrack to mirror it for offline usage - have been using this in Afghanistan for a while and it works very nicely. You can also check out webdump as a remote httrack controller - you

Re: [Server-devel] Server Library - Moodle Vs SimpleDigitalLibrary

2010-04-03 Thread Mike Dawson
Hi All, SDLI is still very much work in progress - more will be coming out shortly as we are developing it here in Kabul. Do deploy it you would simply put the output in a folder that is accessible by Apache. There are some new features and docs coming for SDLI and I'm trying to clean up a lot

Re: [Server-devel] We need: examples of XS hardware in use --

2010-01-13 Thread Mike Dawson
Hi Guys, There was the info dev list for low cost computing that came out and I found Aleutia through this. In Afghanistan we got some T1's: 1.6 Ghz Intel Atom (Fanless) 250 GB HDD 2GB RAM 10-13W Power Use Accepts 12V DC http://www.aleutia.com/products/t1 They also produce it with SSD based

[Server-devel] XS + CFEngine? / Web CP?

2009-12-05 Thread Mike Dawson
Hi All, Greetz from Kabul. We have a very exciting upcoming deployment to Kandahar coming up and hopefully many more deployments :) There are two main things that caught my eye for trying to integrate into XS (and I'm willing to put in development time / expertise as well :) ): 1. Adopting

[Server-devel] First semi-version of Simple Digital Library Index

2009-11-01 Thread Mike Dawson
Dear All, Finally made a first version of Simple Digital Library Index that we have designed here to make libraries easier in limited connectivity scenarios: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Simple_Digital_Library_Index In this I've tidied up a lot of the code, added a javascript based search that

Re: [Server-devel] Fwd: Simple Digital Library Index System

2009-08-04 Thread Mike Dawson
wrote: -- Forwarded message -- From: Mike Dawson mikeofmanches...@gmail.com Date: Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 1:03 AM Subject: Simple Digital Library Index System To: de...@lists.laptop.org Dear All, In Afghanistan we wanted to have a system that would make it as simple