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

2010-07-27 Thread Tom Parker
We're about to go to Samoa with two school servers for two schools which have no internet access. We would like, both for our own reference, and for after we leave, to have a copy of the olpc wiki on the school server. I don't find any mention of this on the olpc wiki. It seems like the least

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] Samoa Deployment - planned hardware for 30 July 2010

2010-07-27 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 6:39 AM, Tom Parker t...@carrott.org wrote: We are going to Samoa for 2 primary school deployments with 50 XO-1.0 laptops in each school, on 30 July 2010. We've been asked to set up a Excellent! That sounds very interesting! 1 EEE Box EB1012 - 2GB ram, 250GB hard disk,

Re: [Server-devel] Wikipedia on XS

2010-07-27 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 6:56 AM, Tom Parker t...@carrott.org wrote: * The Wikipedia Activity doesn't have any images while offline (I haven't ever tried it while online). The Schools Wikipedia has scaled down versions of all images (which are about the right size to fill an XO's screen)

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

2010-07-27 Thread Martin Langhoff
Hi Tom! Please don't hit our server with a crawler! ;-) SJ is the master of all things wiki.l.o -- he will know if it's possible for us to extract an HTML export of the wiki. cheers - m On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 7:57 AM, Tom Parker t...@carrott.org wrote: We're about to go to Samoa with two

Re: [Server-devel] Wikipedia on XS

2010-07-27 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, I think Martin's answers are all correct. Just to be clear: Strange -- it does have images for me. Just tested -- from the homepage, I click on the Sociology link and on that page I get the picture of Auguste Compte. Both Wikipedia English and Spanish carry it. Hmm.

Re: [Server-devel] xs-config's networking layout

2010-07-27 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 7:53 PM, Jerry Vonau jvo...@shaw.ca wrote: I was looking a the xs-config package Great -- apologies for the delay on this feedback, I've spent a week workign on-site with extremely bad internet access (yikes! was good last time I was there!) , I was thinking the next

Re: [Server-devel] xs-config's networking layout

2010-07-27 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 11:28 AM, Sridhar Dhanapalan srid...@laptop.org.au wrote: Full disclosure: Jerry is performing XS development with funding from OLPC Australia. And Bravo for that! Thanks! cheers, m --  martin.langh...@gmail.com  mar...@laptop.org -- School Server Architect  - ask

Re: [Server-devel] Samoa Deployment - planned hardware for 30 July 2010

2010-07-27 Thread Reuben K. Caron
On Jul 27, 2010, at 12:45 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote: 1 EEE Box EB1012 - 2GB ram, 250GB hard disk, dual core 1.6GHz Atom 330 2 Ubiquity Networks NanoStation2 802.11b/g 400mW Outdoor AP/Bridge 1 Switch Very nice gear -- the EEE Box is fanless, and the NanoStation2 looks reasonably safe

Re: [Server-devel] Samoa Deployment - planned hardware for 30 July 2010

2010-07-27 Thread Tom Parker
On Wed, July 28, 2010 4:45 am, Martin Langhoff wrote: On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 6:39 AM, Tom Parker t...@carrott.org wrote: We are going to Samoa for 2 primary school deployments with 50 XO-1.0 laptops in each school, on 30 July 2010. We've been asked to set up a Excellent! That sounds very

[Server-devel] Turn Editing On missing and joining multiple courses

2010-07-27 Thread David Leeming
Hello, In our PNG deployment and elsewhere I am finding with Moodle that when the initial administrator XO creates additional course creators, the Turn Editing On button does not appear on the new Course Creator XOs, although you can see all the site admin functions. For example, I have used