Re: [Server-devel] [OLPC Networking] RSSI value questions

2008-04-03 Thread Ryan Crawford Comeaux
Just to address a few other issues/questions raised... If there is only one antenna on a server, then as long as 3 other nodes are considered relatively stationary, I think their 2D locations can be deduced from each node's measurements of the other 4. An easy to use interface can allow the user t

Re: [Server-devel] [OLPC Networking] RSSI value questions

2008-04-03 Thread Ryan Crawford Comeaux
On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 8:55 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 3 Apr 2008, Michail Bletsas wrote: > > Let's not forget that you need some fixed reference points. > > In commercial systems, the locations of the access points are well > > known. > > In ad-hoc networks the best that you can ho

Re: [Server-devel] OT is there a Content or Curriculum olpc email list?

2008-04-03 Thread Bryan Berry
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

Re: [Server-devel] [OLPC Networking] RSSI value questions

2008-04-03 Thread david
On Thu, 3 Apr 2008, Michail Bletsas wrote: > Let's not forget that you need some fixed reference points. > In commercial systems, the locations of the access points are well known. > In ad-hoc networks the best that you can hope for is a topological map. the assumption was that the measurements a

Re: [Server-devel] [OLPC Networking] RSSI value questions

2008-04-03 Thread Michail Bletsas
Let's not forget that you need some fixed reference points. In commercial systems, the locations of the access points are well known. In ad-hoc networks the best that you can hope for is a topological map. M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 04/02/2008 01:45:14 AM: > Ryan, > > Like Ben said, induc

Re: [Server-devel] [OLPC Networking] RSSI value questions

2008-04-03 Thread david
On Thu, 3 Apr 2008, Aaron Huslage wrote: > How do currently available commercial wireless topology mappers do this? > I don't have direct experiance (the brother of a friend goes around installing these things, so my knowledge is third hand) but my understanding is that they deploy their access

Re: [Server-devel] [OLPC Networking] RSSI value questions

2008-04-03 Thread Aaron Huslage
How do currently available commercial wireless topology mappers do this? On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 7:59 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2 Apr 2008, Hal Murray wrote: > > > Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2008 15:49:38 -0700 > > From: Hal Murray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: Martin Langhoff <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: [Server-devel] [Localization] OT is there a Content or Curriculum olpc email list

2008-04-03 Thread Samuel Klein
Hello Yama, please see [EMAIL PROTECTED] for content discussions and [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] for aspects of usability (discussions about interface design are usually directed to sugar). There is no list about teacher training, though there is an educators list that was initially se

[Server-devel] OT is there a Content or Curriculum olpc email list

2008-04-03 Thread Yama Ploskonka
Please forgive me for this message and crosspost, but after meandering sort of all over laptop.org I cannot find an equivalent to these most excellent Server and Localization lists. Do any of you know if such a content or curriculum list exists and how I can sign up for it? Also, is there somet

Re: [Server-devel] [OLPC Networking] RSSI value questions

2008-04-03 Thread Hal Murray
> The recommended configuration for mid-to-high-end school servers has 3 > active antennaes attached, and our recommendation is that they are > placed well apart. They can be up to 10m apart due to USB cable lenght > limits, and Wad mentioned 2m minimum recommended distance. If the > distance is e

[Server-devel] GSoC: XS AdminUI. GrAd's proposal.

2008-04-03 Thread Григорьев Андрей
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_AdminUI Hello! I want to write XS_AdminUI application and I can make it easy to use for teachers, who not know much about server configuration. I enjoy your project and its ideas. I want to help OLPC and hope that my help would be useful to the project. __