[Server-devel] XS SW

2008-06-13 Thread Tim Moody
I'd like to wade in on the question of base SW for the XS server, especially as regards database support. I think the principle should be to use the software with the most users and developers, and therefore the most support, unless there is a compelling reason not to. So the popularity of

Re: [Server-devel] XS SW

2008-06-23 Thread Tim Moody
Got throught the moodle + postgre install. I'll now play with setting up some courses and users. I cheated on the authentication as I don't know how PAM SOTP works; I just set the authentication to trusted. - Original Message - From: Martin Langhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Tim Moody

Re: [Server-devel] PostgreSQL + Moodle

2008-06-29 Thread Tim Moody
Hi Myles, There have been a number of misconceptions about the configuration of moodle created by yum install on XS. Here's what I found. If the concensus is that this is not how things should work, then perhaps whoever creates the moodle package for XS should modify this, though as yet I

Re: [Server-devel] VoIP

2008-08-10 Thread Tim Moody
What are the bandwidth requirements for these various voip strategies, sip, iax2? Tim - Original Message - Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2008 09:17:31 -0700 From: Sameer Verma [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Server-devel] Reschedule XS meeting for Friday Aug 15 - or 10 PM Aug 14 EST was

Re: [Server-devel] XS inconvenientes

2008-08-13 Thread Tim Moody
Hola Henry, Quantos adaptadores de red tiene el server? Que dice ifconfig? Que es el IP del AP Zoom y a cual adaptor esta conectado? Esta cerrado dhcp en al AP? Tienes respuesta de ping 172.18.0.1 desde el pc o XO? Tienes respuesta de http://172.18.0.1? En mi servidor es la pagina por

Re: [Server-devel] Server-devel Digest, Vol 16, Issue 51

2008-08-28 Thread Tim Moody
Did anyone every reply to this? If so, could someone please forward. -- Message: 2 Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 11:31:25 +0200 From: Jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Server-devel] Pungi minimal installer, comps.xml trick To: Martin Langhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Server-devel] XS testing

2008-10-09 Thread Tim Moody
How does the user get the SOTP pw list? - Original Message - From: Martin Langhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Tony Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; server-devel@lists.laptop.org Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 6:48 PM Subject: Re: [Server-devel] XS testing On Fri, Oct 10,

Re: [Server-devel] XS Help, please

2009-05-16 Thread Tim Moody
Hi Gerald, To expand a bit on what Martin wrote, the XS sits between the XOs and the world (rest of the network). You haven't said how the XS and AP connect to each other, but I'm assuming it is via ethernet, that is the AP is not directly attached via USB. If that is the case the XS needs

Re: [Server-devel] XS Help, please

2009-05-17 Thread Tim Moody
, it needs to be in the subnet of eth1 and not in the range of DHCP address supplied by the XS. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_Installing_Software http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_Release_Notes Tim - Original Message - From: Gerald Ardito To: Tim Moody Cc: server-devel@lists.laptop.org

Re: [Server-devel] [IAEP] [support-gang] An Opportunity to bring vital content to the Sugar/XO world - Needs technical help.

2009-07-19 Thread Tim Moody
I tried the EatBoom app from http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/eatboom/repos/mainline/blobs/master/EatBoom.swf using Adobe Flashplayer version 10. I got to a point where it said congratulations on passing level three, but nothing else happened, so I'm not sure what behavior is expected or how

[Server-devel] fresh 0.6 install

2009-10-01 Thread Tim Moody
Here are some comments on a fresh install of 0.6d5. (Some things go by quickly so it is hard to record them.) There was a complaint about /var/lib/pgsql/data missing. There was a complaint about upgrading moodle. The release notice says 9-0.5.2, but I'm pretty sure is was 0.6d5 and xs-config

Re: [Server-devel] fresh 0.6 install

2009-10-02 Thread Tim Moody
Message: 2 Date: Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:27:16 -0500 From: Jerry Vonau jvo...@shaw.ca Subject: Re: [Server-devel] fresh 0.6 install To: Tim Moody timmo...@sympatico.ca Cc: server-devel@lists.laptop.org Message-ID: 1254425236.22407.83.ca...@f9.vonau.ca Content-Type: text/plain On Thu, 2009-10

Re: [Server-devel] fresh 0.6 install

2009-10-02 Thread Tim Moody
172.18.96.2!! service network status shows eth0, eth1, eth2, lanbond0 configured and eth0, eth1, lanbond0 active. - Original Message - From: Jerry Vonau jvo...@shaw.ca To: Tim Moody timmo...@sympatico.ca Cc: server-devel@lists.laptop.org Sent: Friday, October 02, 2009 10:47 AM Subject: Re

[Server-devel] fresh XS 0.6 install

2009-10-09 Thread Tim Moody
fresh 0.6 install went smoothly except for still says Moodle must be installed or upgraded, but probably bogus because pgsql is running and client pc in lan net gets moodle login from school server. have the install instructions been overly pruned? the ejabberd admin password set up is gone.

Re: [Server-devel] fresh XS 0.6 install

2009-10-11 Thread Tim Moody
/ticket/916, but I'm not clear if this is already in soas and anyway the patch seems to expect the xs to listen on 8080, which I don't think it does. Help appreciated. - Original Message - From: Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com To: Tim Moody timmo...@sympatico.ca Cc: server-devel

Re: [Server-devel] fresh XS 0.6 install

2009-10-12 Thread Tim Moody
would it make sense to modify /etc/services so 8080 is named idmgr? that would make netstat --listen -pe --inet a little more meaningful. - Original Message - From: Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com To: Tim Moody timmo...@sympatico.ca Cc: server-devel@lists.laptop.org Sent

Re: [Server-devel] fresh XS 0.6 install

2009-10-12 Thread Tim Moody
/schoolserver.py reboot registration should now work - Original Message - From: tkk...@nurturingasia.com To: Tim Moody timmo...@sympatico.ca; Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com Cc: server-devel@lists.laptop.org Sent: Monday, October 12, 2009 4:08 AM Subject: Re: [Server-devel] fresh XS 0.6

[Server-devel] unregister soas

2009-10-17 Thread Tim Moody
Is there a way to unregister a client with the xs? sugar-control-panel -c register didn't seem to do anything. ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel

[Server-devel] moodle permissions

2009-10-17 Thread Tim Moody
User 1 (Admin), who was the first to register with XS, creates a news item that appears on the home page User 2 (Teacher) doesn't see it. Is this expected? ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org

Re: [Server-devel] moodle permissions (Tim Moody)

2009-10-17 Thread Tim Moody
OK the admin manually made the teacher a Teacher and now can see news. ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel

[Server-devel] moodle autologin

2009-10-18 Thread Tim Moody
btw, on the first autologin moodle presents the login screen instead of the home page even though it says you are logged in as ... in the upper right corner, which is correct, and actually populates the user field with the user's registration string. this can be a little confusing. Message:

Re: [Server-devel] can't connect xo to home server (Siisi Nketsiah)

2010-02-06 Thread Tim Moody
Hi Siisi, I still don't have an entirely clear picture of your setup, but let me try to help. The XS expects, at a minimum, 2 network interfaces, one for WAN and one for LAN. The WAN interface is usually a network adapter card and has a dynamic IP address, though it can be static, and

Re: [Server-devel] regarding Moodle

2010-03-04 Thread Tim Moody
Luuk, I think what you want to do, have XOs access content in Moodle on the XS even if the XS is disconnected from the interner (but not from the LAN), already works 'out of the box' on XS 0.6 and higher. Martin, I agree that supporting Moodle content on XOs when they are disconnected from the

Re: [Server-devel] Public folders

2010-04-02 Thread Tim Moody
I created a directory public under /library into which I copied a few pdfs. I created a file xs-library-public.conf in /etc/httpd/conf.d which contains Alias /public/ /library/public Directory /library/public Order allow,deny Allow from all Options Indexes FollowSymLinks AllowOverride

Re: [Server-devel] Public folders

2010-04-06 Thread Tim Moody
into an email. - Original Message - From: Andra DuPont andradup...@gmail.com To: Tim Moody timmo...@sympatico.ca Cc: server-devel@lists.laptop.org Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2010 3:08 PM Subject: Re: [Server-devel] Public folders Tim, I am also looking for a way to have a digital library

Re: [Server-devel] Public folders

2010-04-07 Thread Tim Moody
Glad you figured it out; I'm sure you're right. Not sure where I got the extra / or why it worked on my server. - Original Message - From: Andra DuPont To: Tim Moody Cc: XS Devel Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2010 11:05 AM Subject: Re: [Server-devel] Public folders Tim

Re: [Server-devel] Web Caching for Areas with Intermittent

2010-04-09 Thread Tim Moody
What are the main advantages of wwwoffle over apache's built in proxy and cache modules? Message: 3 Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2010 23:46:52 -0400 From: Andra DuPont andradup...@gmail.com Subject: [Server-devel] Web Caching for Areas with Intermittent Internet - WWWOFFLE installation Guide on 0.6 XS

Re: [Server-devel] Mass deployment thoughts

2010-05-10 Thread Tim Moody
I've been thinking about automating larger deployments as well, though more the initial install than subsequent updates. As an experiment I put together a cobbler installation server on FC12 (https://fedorahosted.org/cobbler/) and use etherboot (http://etherboot.org/wiki/index.php) to boot

[Server-devel] Fw: public folders in xs 0.6

2010-06-04 Thread Tim Moody
forgot to include the list. - Original Message - From: Tim Moody To: Kevin Mauricio Benavides Castro Sent: Friday, June 04, 2010 5:33 PM Subject: Re: public folders in xs 0.6 Hola Kevin, El nombre en la Alias linea tiene que ser igual a lo de la carpeta. Si la carpeta es /library

Re: [Server-devel] OLPC school Server Installation advise

2010-11-27 Thread Tim Moody
Hi Satya, Just to be clear, are you following the instructions at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_Installing_Software and using the XS 0.6 iso as a CD? I just tried it on an old Dell, and it progresses for me in kickstart mode. However, I also tried text mode reinstall with a blank HDD and took

[Server-devel] XS Install Server

2011-04-08 Thread Tim Moody
I have been experimenting for quite awhile with an install server based on cobbler and have finally written it up here http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_Install_Server. If you have more than a few servers to install and want to automate the process or you want to add some library content

Re: [Server-devel] XS Install Server

2011-04-29 Thread Tim Moody
. -- From: Sridhar Dhanapalan srid...@laptop.org.au Sent: Friday, April 29, 2011 1:57 AM To: Tim Moody timmo...@sympatico.ca Cc: server-devel@lists.laptop.org Subject: Re: [Server-devel] XS Install Server On 29 April 2011 15:43, Sridhar Dhanapalan srid...@laptop.org.au wrote: On 9

Re: [Server-devel] XS wishlist

2011-05-31 Thread Tim Moody
This is a great list. I'd like to add support for the idea that it would be good if the XS could be layered as follows: Generic fedora install (or centos to keep it from changing so frequently) Generic rpms for everything not developed by olpc, including moodle XS rpms (or scripts) that add

Re: [Server-devel] XS wishlist

2011-05-31 Thread Tim Moody
Has anyone created a test suite to validate that the XS is functioning properly? Sameer, is there something along the lines http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_Load_Testing but for functionality, not load? ___ Server-devel mailing list

Re: [Server-devel] OLPC Australia XS concerns

2011-06-16 Thread Tim Moody
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_Techniques_and_Configuration#Installing_from_USB has a download for the script, but it seems broken. Where did you get it? Is it something simple like needing to issue ./mkusbinstall or use sudo? If you google mkusbinstall there are several versions

Re: [Server-devel] DNS question for East Timor deployment

2011-07-11 Thread Tim Moody
You didn't mention the make and model of your WAP, but it sounds like it is acting as a dhcp server and a dns server. When it hands the xo an ip addr it also says that it is the dns server (192.168.1.1). I'm guessing the xos can find each other, just not the server. Some wireless routers

Re: [Server-devel] Who wrote http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_Install_Server?

2012-02-04 Thread Tim Moody
George, et. al., When I think about how to improve the XS installation process it seems to me that separating the linux install from the XS packages is a good idea. Ideally you would install the latest distro (probably of fedora) using the minimal kickstart file plus packages needed by the

Re: [Server-devel] WvDial, Networking Issues in XS 0.6/0.7

2012-03-18 Thread Tim Moody
Martin is basically right that you are trying to use the internet to install the internet. yum can't get the rpms because it has no internet access. this might help figure out the actual rpms needed. it lists some of the rpms required and one gotcha where the usb device can look like a thumb

[Server-devel] xs-pkgs

2012-03-29 Thread Tim Moody
I tried to do an install from OLPC-School-Server-0.7-i386.iso using cobbler. The olpcxs.ks looks for @olpc-xs, but I don't see it in the Packages directory. All I see are: idmgr-0.6.36.ge93529d-1.el6.noarch.rpm olpc-bios-crypto-0.5.26.g1972d11-1.xs11.i586.rpm

Re: [Server-devel] xs-pkgs

2012-03-30 Thread Tim Moody
funny thing is that it works fine under cobbler. anaconda offered to reinitialize the partition and I let it, but still didn't help. From: Martin Langhoff Sent: Friday, March 30, 2012 7:04 AM To: Tim Moody Cc: server-devel@lists.laptop.org Subject: Re: [Server-devel] xs-pkgs On Mar 29

Re: [Server-devel] xs-pkgs

2012-03-30 Thread Tim Moody
(btw installing straight from cd never worked for me as it failed on the disk partitioning regardless of the options I chose) From a kickstart file or by hand in the installer? using the cd and taking the kickstart option. Jerry ___

Re: [Server-devel] xs-pkgs

2012-03-30 Thread Tim Moody
That is not a package, the @ makes it a group definition in the *comps.xml file in /repodata on the XS iso image. You must loopback mount the iso to view the file, then have a look for that string. Well, you're right as usual. (also I said xs-pkgs remembering 0.6, when I should have said

Re: [Server-devel] xs-pkgs

2012-03-31 Thread Tim Moody
All of this has been with cobbler since I never got the cd install to work because it could never format the disk, which btw is a simple 40G drive with no raid or anything else fancy that has already had Centos and now XS on it. The target machine can connect to the cobbler server but not

Re: [Server-devel] From Marina Orth Foundation

2012-04-21 Thread Tim Moody
How do you perform the initial installation of these XS servers? What is your host naming convention so that each looks like schoolserver on the lan, but some unique name on the wan? -- Message: 2 Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2012 15:17:25 -0600 From: Daniel Drake

Re: [Server-devel] usbmount alternatives

2012-11-13 Thread Tim Moody
Hi Daniel, Can you tell me what plans there are for the XS beyond version 0.7 and who would be undertaking them. Thanks, Tim -- From: Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2012 9:05 AM This should be discussed on

Re: [Server-devel] Post XS-0.7 plans

2012-11-13 Thread Tim Moody
as to whether this is as it should be or not. -- From: Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2012 4:24 PM To: Tim Moody timmo...@sympatico.ca Cc: XS Devel server-devel@lists.laptop.org Subject: Post XS-0.7 plans Hi, On Tue, Nov

[Server-devel] hyperactivity

2012-12-07 Thread Tim Moody
I am trying to run the hyperactivity collaboration capacity tests against the XS installed on an XO as per http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Ejabberd_resource_tests http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.laptop.olpc.devel/24239 I tried turning off iptables and am running as root in an FC 17 vbox on a

[Server-devel] Dansguardian

2013-02-04 Thread Tim Moody
I know there have been some XS deployments that used dansguardian . Can someone give me a config file or some pointers as to how get this to work with squid and XS networking? Thanks, Tim ___ Server-devel mailing list

Re: [Server-devel] XS Community edition

2013-02-28 Thread Tim Moody
First, let me say that I don’t find much below to disagree with, though to paraphrase George’s comments with Tony’s metaphor, I would say that what we have done so far is take a wheel and get it to work on other makes and newer models of the vehicle. But this is not our final aim and we are

Re: [Server-devel] XS Community Edition: XO 1.75 installtion

2013-03-02 Thread Tim Moody
Initially, at least, the expected configuration is that the internal wifi is used for external access (wan) and the ap is attached to a usb ethernet device for interanl access (lan). -Original Message- From: tkk...@nurturingasia.com Sent: Saturday, March 02, 2013 8:23 PM To: Jerry

Re: [Server-devel] [ANNOUNCE] XSCE 0.2.1 - Phoebe

2013-03-13 Thread Tim Moody
both need to be attached when the install is run and the wifi should be off. the install looks for an adapter that has access to the gateway and calls it wan. it then looks for another and calls the last one it finds lan. -Original Message- From: tkk...@nurturingasia.com Sent:

[Server-devel] puppet

2013-03-18 Thread Tim Moody
Over the years there have been a number of expressions of interest in puppet. Are there any modules out there for actual XS services? I know about http://dev.laptop.org/git/users/martin/puppet-example/tree/, which has some manifests. ___

Re: [Server-devel] Puppet

2013-03-19 Thread Tim Moody
the person managing the list at server-devel-ow...@lists.laptop.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than Re: Contents of Server-devel digest... Today's Topics: 1. puppet (Tim Moody

Re: [Server-devel] My Observations and experiences with XSCE 0.2.1

2013-03-19 Thread Tim Moody
I have installed 0.2.1 on an XO 1.75 successfully in one go and the XO 1.75 server and another XO were both able to register and connect to schoolserver (without http:// I sometimes get a google search instead of the url), so either we have regressed or we didn't handle your non-MN machine.

[Server-devel] Fw: Testing and comparing wireless setups.

2013-06-28 Thread Tim Moody
. From: Tim Moody Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2013 3:56 PM To: James Cameron Subject: Re: [Server-devel] Testing and comparing wireless setups. Took a stab a creating a home for the information you suggest. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Holt/XS_Community_Edition/Wifi_Experience -Original

[Server-devel] Schoolserver home page localization

2013-10-23 Thread Tim Moody
Hi Chris, I am working on a home page for the xsce schoolserver, which I would like to localize. The method I have used is to turn on multiviews and have index.en.php, index.es.php, etc. which each have any arbitrary text in the appropriate language and also make calls, currently to php

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] XSCE/xsce and activitycetral/dxs repository integration in a branch preserving history

2013-10-23 Thread Tim Moody
which commit was fa2d59? This is the same discussion we had yesterday about when we move from dxs to xsce. What would be the criteria for deciding to merge the dxs branch into master? And it still doesn’t address the question of where ongoing differences between dxs and xsce will live. I’m

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] XSCE/xsce and activitycetral/dxs repository integration in a branch preserving history

2013-10-23 Thread Tim Moody
Exactly! I also think it is a risk to have development being done in xsce:dxs. I would be in favor of just creating a xsce:dxs with all the dxs commits, so we don't lose the history, and then we just merge that to the xsce:master branch and just continue working there. WhatSay? OK, but what

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] XSCE/xsce and activitycetral/dxs repository integration in a branch preserving history

2013-10-23 Thread Tim Moody
There should be none. There might be a 100 commits (the dxs history) instead of the current 1 commit, but the end result of those 100 will be the same. On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 1:11 PM, Tim Moody t...@timmoody.com wrote: Exactly! I also think it is a risk to have development being done in xsce:dxs

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] ifcfg-eth# files in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts generated by runansible

2013-10-26 Thread Tim Moody
we need to have get facts do this, so people don’t have to edit, as we discussed on a previous call. is anyone working on this or should I? Tim From: Anna Sent: Friday, October 25, 2013 8:11 PM To: xsce-devel ; Server Devel Subject: [XSCE] ifcfg-eth# files in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts

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

2013-11-10 Thread Tim Moody
-Original Message- From: Braddock Sent: Sunday, November 10, 2013 12:23 AM To: xsce-de...@googlegroups.com ; XS Devel Subject: Re: [XSCE] Fwd: [support-gang] XO tablet can not connect to XSCE server -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/09/2013 04:53 PM, Samuel

Re: [Server-devel] Listing subpages on the feature page

2013-11-12 Thread Tim Moody
I originally left the generated list at the bottom of the manual list as a sort of checksum, so that we can see visually that the two are in sync. A subsequent editor took it out. But the work process should always be to add both a feature detail and a line in the table. I think the

[Server-devel] fake xs-config rpm

2013-11-15 Thread Tim Moody
I put an empty rpm in http://xsce.activitycentral.com/downloads/xs-config-999-1.noarch.rpm Tim___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel

Re: [Server-devel] Moving toward headless install on trimslice

2013-11-17 Thread Tim Moody
How does the os get onto the trimslice? How do you sudo if the only known user is not a sudoer? Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2013 12:12:33 -0500 From: George Hunt georgejh...@gmail.com To: XS Devel server-devel@lists.laptop.org Subject: [Server-devel] Moving toward headless install on trimslice for XSCE

[Server-devel] xs-activity-server

2013-11-20 Thread Tim Moody
The xs-activity-server rpm in use by xsce is 0.3.5.g3b1d13b.1.fc17, which though a parallel development, looks to be the same as 3.6 in http://dev.laptop.org/git/users/martin/xs-activity-server/ However the latter also has a 4.0 which implements a more complicated scheme for creating the html

[Server-devel] xs-activity-server

2013-11-22 Thread Tim Moody
xs-activity-server seems to try to create localized index.html files based on finding linfo files in a given activity (described in http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activity_bundles) but so far, I have not found any activities that have a locale directory with linfo files even though the contents of

Re: [Server-devel] The three step XSCE demo

2013-11-22 Thread Tim Moody
I take a middle of the road approach, using vbox, but not vagrant. Some time ago I created a vbox with a minimal FC18 64 bit install, which I call FC18-64Base and which I periodically yum update and into which I put my personal account, make myself a sudoer, etc., turn on sshd if necessary.

Re: [Server-devel] The three step XSCE demo

2013-11-22 Thread Tim Moody
Forgot to mention that on XSCEAnsibleBase you should also wget http://xsce.activitycentral.com/downloads/xs-config-999-1.noarch.rpm yum -y localinstall xs-config-999-1.noarch.rpm Tim ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org

Re: [Server-devel] Supporting basic mobile phones

2013-11-25 Thread Tim Moody
This idea occurred to me as well. I think we need to be sure about the kinds of phones that are available. What I read indicates mostly not smart phones. I believe the highly successful apps, such as mpesa and ushahidi use sms, not even wap. You then need a cellular gateway. Message: 1

[Server-devel] xsce httpd.conf

2013-11-25 Thread Tim Moody
PREAMBLE xsce has an httpd-xs.conf file in /etc/httpd/conf, which is a customized version of httpd.conf. It gets used because /etc/sysconfig/httpd has a clause OPTIONS= -f conf/httpd-xs.conf. Except that in the ansible install /etc/sysconfig/httpd doesn’t get set. httpd-xs.conf is definitely

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] xsce httpd.conf

2013-11-26 Thread Tim Moody
to take over the base conf file. On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 3:01 PM, Tim Moody t...@timmoody.com wrote: PREAMBLE xsce has an httpd-xs.conf file in /etc/httpd/conf, which is a customized version of httpd.conf. It gets used because /etc/sysconfig/httpd has a clause OPTIONS= -f conf/httpd-xs.conf

Re: [Server-devel] [crazy idea] Supporting basic mobile phones

2013-11-29 Thread Tim Moody
This was in the morning mail. http://arduino.cc/en/Main/ArduinoGSMShield. I guess there are a few others as well. Tim ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel

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

2013-11-30 Thread Tim Moody
I'm in favor of staying where we are. To me the biggest risk is that the site one day just disappears. We should have a backup of the content and deal with it if and when it happens. I'm not sure what the easiest way to do a backup is. Tim ___

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

2013-11-30 Thread Tim Moody
://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_Community_Edition/0.4/Testing https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_Community_Edition/0.4/Testing/Results On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 12:44 PM, Tim Moody t...@timmoody.com wrote: I'm in favor of staying where we are. To me the biggest risk

[Server-devel] [XSCE] [ANNOUNCE] Release of XSCE 0.5 RC

2013-12-17 Thread Tim Moody
On behalf of the many people working on the latest version of the School Server Community Edition I am announcing the release of 0.5.0 RC 1 for testing. To get started (assuming you have git setup): git clone g...@github.com:XSCE/xsce.git cd xsce git checkout 0.5.0-rc.1 Then look at the docs

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] Re: Cubox Solidrun Prototype Packaging

2014-01-04 Thread Tim Moody
http://www.markertek.com/Connectors-Adapters/Data-Connectors-Adapters/RJ45-CAT5-and-CAT6-Connectors/Switchcraft-Corporation/EHRJ45P5E.xhtml or someplace else to find a cat5e case mountable receptacle. Tim From: Tim Moody Sent: Saturday, January 04, 2014 11:50 AM To: George Hunt ; Jon Nettleton

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] Re: Cubox Solidrun Prototype Packaging

2014-01-04 Thread Tim Moody
it is low. I know that is one of George’s pet projects. are there low power states we can put the drive (spin down) and the cubox (sleep) into? Tim From: Jon Nettleton Sent: Saturday, January 04, 2014 12:14 PM To: Tim Moody Cc: George Hunt ; XS Devel ; xsce-devel Subject: [XSCE] Re: Cubox

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] Re: Cubox Solidrun Prototype Packaging

2014-01-04 Thread Tim Moody
My other question is where do we expect the wifi router to be located and is it powered from AC or 12V? Tim From: Tim Moody Sent: Saturday, January 04, 2014 11:50 AM To: George Hunt ; Jon Nettleton Cc: XS Devel ; xsce-devel Subject: [XSCE] Re: Cubox Solidrun Prototype Packaging My first

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] Re: Cubox Solidrun Prototype Packaging

2014-01-04 Thread Tim Moody
for a drive I am looking at http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=8511357CatId=139 I assume we want 5400 rpm for less power. Tim From: Jon Nettleton Sent: Saturday, January 04, 2014 12:05 PM To: Tim Moody Cc: George Hunt ; XS Devel ; xsce-devel Subject

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] Re: Cubox Solidrun Prototype Packaging

2014-01-04 Thread Tim Moody
rivets look about perfect to me. On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 6:13 PM, Tim Moody t...@timmoody.com wrote: http://www.markertek.com/Connectors-Adapters/Data-Connectors-Adapters/RJ45-CAT5-and-CAT6-Connectors/Switchcraft-Corporation/EHRJ45P5E.xhtml or someplace else to find a cat5e case mountable

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] Re: a kernel for our solidrun protos?

2014-01-06 Thread Tim Moody
that is no longer realistic. Tim From: George Hunt Sent: Monday, January 06, 2014 5:04 PM To: Jon Nettleton Cc: XS Devel ; Tim Moody ; A Holt ; Curt Thompson Subject: Re: [XSCE] Re: [Server-devel] a kernel for our solidrun protos? Jon, When I compiled the kernel that Rabeeh made available

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] Upgraded VirtualBox XSCE 0.4 in my Google Drive to 0.5

2014-01-10 Thread Tim Moody
appliance mode should really be called non-gateway as opposed to gateway. In gateway mode xsce provides dhcp leases as well as routing and name resolution and none of these in appliance mode. Tim -Original Message- From: James Cameron Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2014 10:48 PM To:

[Server-devel] ansible and lan repos

2014-01-13 Thread Tim Moody
I have created a repo server with lots of rpms organized into created repos for the case where I have no external internet connection. I sent an earlier email with the list to which I have added the /var/cache/yum from and install. I can access these with, for example, yum --disablerepo=*

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] Re: Large groups of XO-1 do not work with access points

2014-02-08 Thread Tim Moody
Hi James, These are valuable statistics. Does it matter if the xo has previously connected to the ap and stored connection info? Could we avoid the scan by pre-populating the connection info? (I think you did this in tinycore. This would also eliminate the variable of relying on NN to

Re: [Server-devel] [support-gang] [UKids] XO-1 classrooms don't reliably connect to many/most Wifi AP's

2014-02-09 Thread Tim Moody
I completely agree that we have evidence that some routers (and android hotspots) just work and that if you can figure out how to make this reliable and even how to add this capability to other routers that currently fail that would be the best solution. However, as a parallel track we should

Re: [Server-devel] [support-gang] CFT: XO-1 wireless scan results loss

2014-02-10 Thread Tim Moody
A couple of questions on the test environment. Do you care what channel the ap is on? Do you care if anything is serving dhcp? Do you care if the xo can reach the internet? Tim -Original Message- From: James Cameron Sent: Sunday, February 09, 2014 11:47 PM To: de...@lists.laptop.org

Re: [Server-devel] XO-1 wireless scan test Tim-1

2014-02-11 Thread Tim Moody
iwlist on 11.3 does not return Extra:Last Beacon. I tried yum upgrade, but there was no later package. So I upgraded the monitor xo only to 12.1 and am re-running. Tim -Original Message- From: James Cameron Sent: Monday, February 10, 2014 6:53 PM To: Tim Moody Cc: de

Re: [Server-devel] [UKids] 10AM NYC Time: XS(CE) Thurs Community Call

2014-02-14 Thread Tim Moody
We have recently finished deployment in 10 schools in the remote far western region of Nepal. There is no electricity at all and everything runs on solar and battery. There there are as many as 35 laptops and upto two TP-link routers (flashed with openwrt) per school. So far we have not had any

[Server-devel] [XSCE] IRC Meeting at Noon EST Tue Feb 18

2014-02-17 Thread Tim Moody
The XSCE community hasn’t met on IRC recently. Please join all who can on #schoolserver @ http://webchat.freenode.net There is an agenda at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1o6QtzLb6e58YKWqMf_junux2XyBRLFm31un8YLcYslg which needs additions. Tim

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] XSCE 5.1

2014-02-21 Thread Tim Moody
, Feb 21, 2014 at 10:55 AM, Tim Moody t...@timmoody.com wrote: On last Tuesday’s IRC it was decided that release 5.1 should implement features that existed in 0.4 and did not make it into 5.0. Can someone please catalog those features so they can go into the features page on the wiki. Tuesday

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] XSCE 5.1 Features

2014-02-22 Thread Tim Moody
it out. Tim From: Tim Moody Sent: Friday, February 21, 2014 11:42 AM To: xsce-devel ; server-devel Subject: Re: [XSCE] XSCE 5.1 the transcript does not contain the information I asked for, namely those features that existed in 0.4 and do not exist in 5.0. it does contain additional features

[Server-devel] cubox wifi

2014-02-22 Thread Tim Moody
Jon, Can you (or anyone else) tell me where to find the drivers for the cubox wifi adapter you mentioned on the call on Tue. Thanks, Tim___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] cubox wifi

2014-02-23 Thread Tim Moody
PM, Tim Moody t...@timmoody.com wrote: Jon, Can you (or anyone else) tell me where to find the drivers for the cubox wifi adapter you mentioned on the call on Tue. Thanks, Tim ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http

[Server-devel] [XSCE] IRC Meeting at Noon EST Tue Feb 25

2014-02-24 Thread Tim Moody
Can the XSCE community get together on IRC again on Tue.? I’d like to hear what went on in LA and see who is doing what on 5.1. Please join all who can on #schoolserver @ http://webchat.freenode.net The usual is an agenda at

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] cubox wifi

2014-02-25 Thread Tim Moody
that will need to be rectified to support UHS speeds for the sdcard. For now we will be limiting the card-slot to standard SD high speed modes of 50Mhz which equates to around 20MB/s On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 5:12 PM, Tim Moody t...@timmoody.com wrote: sounds great. one thing I

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] cubox wifi

2014-03-11 Thread Tim Moody
will be limiting the card-slot to standard SD high speed modes of 50Mhz which equates to around 20MB/s On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 5:12 PM, Tim Moody t...@timmoody.com wrote: sounds great. one thing I noticed in Haiti was that I could not get a 16G sd card

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] cubox wifi

2014-03-12 Thread Tim Moody
speeds for the sdcard. For now we will be limiting the card-slot to standard SD high speed modes of 50Mhz which equates to around 20MB/s On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 5:12 PM, Tim Moody t...@timmoody.com wrote: sounds great. one thing I noticed in Haiti was that I could not get

Re: [Server-devel] Server-devel Digest, Vol 83, Issue 6

2014-03-20 Thread Tim Moody
Do you happen to know if the cubox wifi can be configured for access point mode (rather than client?) I ask because if upgraded to a modern kernel, the wifi of the dreamplug can no longer be so configured although it is in such a configuration as shipped (with a 2.6? kernel and Debian

Re: [Server-devel] [support-gang] 32(+) XO-1's on Mesh Potato 2 as AP on XSCE

2014-04-17 Thread Tim Moody
As far as I know the implementation of ejabberd on xsce was a straight port from xs 0.7, so I wouldn't have expected a bug to have been introduced, but it is speculation either way. All we know is that what Nathan observes was not previously reported as a bug. Still, it is an annoyance.

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] XSCE usage analysis: Malaysia Deployment

2014-04-23 Thread Tim Moody
what do things like df and mount show Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2014 09:41:32 +0545 From: mar...@gnu.org To: tkk...@nurturingasia.com; xsce-de...@googlegroups.com; server-devel@lists.laptop.org Subject: Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] XSCE usage analysis: Malaysia Deployment On 23.4.2014 16:49,

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