Re: [Server-devel] link to download XS software not working

We apologize; xs-dev was recently moved to a new host from one that was failing. The download links should work now. Please let us know if you find any more broken links. --- SJG On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 10:26 PM, Shaun Pickford shaun.pickf...@gmail.comwrote: I'm having the exact same issue.

[Server-devel] Fwd: School server links

Forwarding to the school server list. -- Forwarded message -- From: TONY ANDERSON tony_ander...@usa.net Date: Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 11:47 AM Subject: School server links To: olpc-soc...@googlegroups.com As a follow-up to the school server session at OLPC SF Summit 2011, the

Re: [Server-devel] CentOS hardware support doubts

On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 9:07 AM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: I've now seen 3 failure cases - the AR8152 mentioned above, and another case which I only had time to do a quick boot check of F9/C6/F16 (F16 was the only one that recognised the onboard NIC of the asrock motherboard).

Re: [Server-devel] A quick networking question

The example DHCP configuration linked likely should be updated to support multiple MAC address ranges. In addition to the 00:17:C4 prefix mentioned in that script, newer XOs may come with Wifi cards that have a 20:7C:8F prefix, and I'm looking at an XO that has a 68:A3:C4 prefix. On Tue, Feb

Re: [Server-devel] xs-pkgs

In our local case, the deployment purchased a supposedly RHEL-compliant server which lacked a Linux driver for its built-in RAID controller. This RAID controller created disk partitions which spanned the full size of each disk drive. These partitions appeared when the lower-level disk

Re: [Server-devel] 0.7 stable?

I checked with Daniel Drake and we decided to mark XS-0.7 as stable in the Wiki. Thanks for letting us know. On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 6:07 PM, Christoph Derndorfer christoph.derndor...@gmail.com wrote: Anyone? Thanks, Christoph On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 12:52 PM, Sameer Verma

Re: [Server-devel] XS 0.7 in VM

At least historically, I have been told that OLPC does not support the XS in virtual environments. This does not mean it is not possible; but officially OLPC may not be able to support such VMs. I vaguely recall the reasons for this; but as it has been a while, I will leave the official

Re: [Server-devel] XS 0.7 in VM

in case someone stumbles upon this email thread, and thinks about using a virtualized image for their school. On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 5:57 PM, Sameer Verma sve...@sfsu.edu wrote: On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 8:20 PM, Samuel Greenfeld greenf...@laptop.org wrote: At least historically, I have been

Re: [Server-devel] How-to make the XS appear in the neighbourhood view of the XOs

I have pondered this, along with enterprise (larger school) XS installations in general. The XS typically does not control its wifi AP, so it can only be easily shown when when users associate to its AP. This is not necessarily a problem, as XOs only see each other on the same network in a

Re: [Server-devel] registering an xo for second time

If the OS/Sugar build is new enough, the Register option never disappears from the Right click menu of the XO character in the home view, and re-registration is possible with no editing required. The Register option only appears on the screen which has the application Circle/Spiral present, and

[Server-devel] Experimental schoolserver tweaks - Moodle upgrade and alternative name support for XO builds

I have two experimental schoolserver tweaks available for those who are interested. These are not officially supported, have only seen light testing, and may break in interesting ways, so please use caution if you choose to try them out. Testing these with school servers or XO builds used by

Re: [Server-devel] Re-register an XO on XS schoolserver

Older OS builds may not be able to re-register by default, but I think resorting to the command line may be overdoing it. I seem to recall that deleting the schoolserver name from the Network control panel and pressing the OK (checkmark) button was enough to get the Register item to appear again

Re: [Server-devel] Server-devel Digest, Vol 76, Issue 3

There is a need for some continued maintenance of the XS: there are known bugs, and security patches could be required from time to time. Just because something is not unstable does not mean that development has to completely cease. It is not clear to me though who will continue to do this work.

Re: [Server-devel] Dealing with the disruptions caused by XSCE.

Unfortunately you chose a week to ask this question when many people are on vacation. I will give my personal, non-official response; however as it is wider issue, server-devel@ likely is not the list this should be discussed on. Recently there have been a number of cases where volunteers along

Re: [Server-devel] XS 0.7 CentOS boot hang

Given the XS-0.7 does not run X Windows by default, this likely is not the problem. You can try disabling the pseudo-graphical progress bar to get more information. On a system that hangs, choose to edit the default boot option before the countdown timer finishes. Delete the rhgb (Red Hat

Re: [Server-devel] Squid caching on the XSCE AND AP's

Unless there are clients that are going though the router but are not going through the schoolserver, I think this risks more harm than good. Going back to the microprocessor analogy, the Level 2 cache usually is much larger than the Level 1 cache, and only slightly slower. Most community

Re: [Server-devel] Squid caching on the XSCE AND AP's

helping or hurting. If every AP along the way cached data those closest to the XS could be thrashing their caches a lot. On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 10:17 PM, Anish Mangal an...@activitycentral.comwrote: On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 7:08 PM, Samuel Greenfeld greenf...@laptop.orgwrote: Unless

Re: [Server-devel] aliases for hacking on our XSCE school server

I know that XSCE currently does some customizations, but personally I would prefer to see the normal installation process not modify shell aliases or prompts unless explicitly told to. These are more of a user preference than anything necessary for XSCE to function. XSCE eventually should not act

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] Fwd: [support-gang] XO tablet can not connect to XSCE server

Two comments on this: 1. It is possible that Android is looking for the DNS search path provided by DHCP that tells a client what suffixes to try. Looking at the git repository the XSCE DHCP server may not currently supply this. I will look into this a bit when I get the chance.

Re: [Server-devel] Feedback: Problems with XSCE

://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/1976 - Original Message - From: Samuel Greenfeld sam...@greenfeld.org To: James Cameron qu...@laptop.org, Anish Mangal an...@activitycentral.com, server-devel server-devel@lists.laptop.org Sent: Friday, 29 November, 2013 4:10:03 AM Subject: Re: [Server

Re: [Server-devel] Does XSCE need a new Home?

VM with root access granted to community Sysadmins. DavidR, our web and communications guy could assist in setting up and migrating the site. George On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 5:10 AM, Samuel Greenfeld sam...@greenfeld.org wrote: I think you need to be careful how you phrase

Re: [Server-devel] Can XSCE benefit a tablet deployment?

On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 9:42 AM, George Hunt georgejh...@gmail.com wrote: This is a branch off of the thread Does XSCE need a new home?, and stimulated by James Cameron's comments quoted where in part: The XO tablet is rebranded Vivitar. On Amazon, besides the XO Tablet, there is also a

Re: [Server-devel] Install python applications in a virtualenv without, system wide packages using wheel binary package format

From the end user's perspective, what virtualenv does is rewrite the Python path environment so a series of custom-created directories are always tried first. It then optionally looks at the system python path for other modules. The one time I had to use virtualenv it did not solve problems

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] CentOS 7.0 Released, 3 years after CentOS 6.0

It probably will not be that hard for someone familiar with OLPC OS builder to port it to CentOS 7 and make a release. CentOS 7 is a close cousin of Fedora builds which already have been used for XO releases. Possibly a more interesting question is which version of Sugar will make it into

Re: [Server-devel] Fixing the Shellshocker bash exploit on the old FC9 based XS 0.6

XS 0.7 school servers are based on CentOS 6.x, which still gets security updates. So you can log onto your XS 0.7 schoolserver as root, and yum update bash to get the latest version. Note that there is talk that the first fix may not be complete, so you may have to update bash twice. On Thu,

Re: [Server-devel] [UKids] Re: XOs cannot act as WiFi access points

If I recall correctly, Android devices cannot connect to Ad-hoc networks out-of-the-box. There may be some third party utilities which allow certain devices to do this with varying levels of success. Instead, either one device is configured as an AP, or a newer-than-Adhoc standard called WiFi

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] Re: XS(CE) integration with other environments?

AM, Samuel Greenfeld wrote: You are taking my remarks a bit out of context, although it is hard for me to tiptoe around explaining things while trying not to insult anyone. From the schoolserver perspective, schoolservers as originally implemented were meant to be an all-in-one system

Re: [Server-devel] XS(CE) integration with other environments?

You are taking my remarks a bit out of context, although it is hard for me to tiptoe around explaining things while trying not to insult anyone. From the schoolserver perspective, schoolservers as originally implemented were meant to be an all-in-one system. They provide DHCP for the laptops,

Re: [Server-devel] Two (minimal) goals for a kernel for XO1.5 based upon fc22?

Given I looked into this before with F22 Beta(*), I ran OLPC OS Builder tonight, excluding nothing from all repositories, and let it loose. There were a few more minor issues found with the build process. But I managed to build an image with the stock Fedora 4.x kernel, and primarily F22 parts.

Re: [Server-devel] [UKids] Lightning kills underground Ethernet too; PoE wiring/voltages non-trivial!

If you are going to use any cable outdoors or where it may be exposed to the elements, getting cable rated for the desired outdoor use may be as important as its speed rating. You don't want the cables getting water in them, causing interesting shorts and ground currents. Cables routed inside of

Re: [Server-devel] [UKids] Lightning kills underground Ethernet too; PoE wiring/voltages non-trivial!

On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 4:55 AM, John Gilmore wrote: > The cheapest of those fiber-enabled switches still cost about US$300 > the last time I looked. The GBICs cost about $50 to $100 at best. > The fiber cable itself is finicky and ideally you would buy it from a > supplier who

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] Internet-in-a-Box endorsed by McDonald's Australia!

Be careful what you say, especially with a corporation known to highly protect its name with lawyers. Usage of the same device is not necessarily an endorsement. I know someone with Intel NUCs all over their house, but they run Windows 10 :) On Sat, Mar 26, 2016 at 1:32 PM, Adam Holt

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] "Gigabyte BRIX more scalable than Intel NUC"

If you are looking at devices which include sales in the US (and potentially other) market(s), you may find that your devices may only accept one of a few internal Wifi NICs. This is because the FCC certification of the device as a whole is often done including the Wifi module. And they only

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] Proposal | SIP VoIP server on XSCE

The downside to SIP is that if you leave a SIP server open on the Internet which allows calls without authenticated registration (even by accident) you will find dozens of systems trying to proxy long-distance & international telephone calls through it. If they can get through, thousands of

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] "Raspbian reserves 4% of all disk space"

The default threshold probably was 5%, and intentional. This buffer is meant to allow the root user to use & recover the system if it is nearly full. So if this file system has any system purpose and is not purely for the digital library, you probably want the 5% there. It also allows the