On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 06:30:17PM -0400, Daniel Drake wrote:
>2009/3/15 Martin Langhoff :
>> "Client" code for Gadget seems to be integrated in the Telepathy new
>> Sugar present on the SoaS images. The server side -- the proper gadget
>> code -- isn't on any XS, and I haven't seen or tested it (l
Dear XS folks,
Daniel Drake, currently in Paraguay, wants to try implementing the procedure
described in
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Mstone/Commentaries/Mass_olpc-update
via XSen (using DNS to redirect the XOs' theft-deterrence protocol requests to
the local XS.) However, after briefly sc
On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 04:46:17PM +0100, Martin Langhoff wrote:
>On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 7:33 PM, Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Do the XS installation instructions offer any guidance on prohibiting
>> booting with init=/bin/bash, booting from external media,
On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 09:31:04AM +0545, Bryan Berry wrote:
>On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 15:10 +1200, Martin Langhoff wrote:
>
>good to hear we're on the same page.
>
>> AIUI, the user only has to get to the initial moodle page, and GG
>> should take care of the rest.
>
>you've reached beyond my geek li
On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 07:41:13AM +1000, Pia Waugh wrote:
>There are a few interesting feature requests I've had from local trials,
>including the ability to only allow an XS to talk to "approved" XOs, to
>avoid strangers parking outside a school with an XO and interacting with
>children (worst ca
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 12:34:07PM -0700, Tom Mitchell wrote:
>Removing the man and info pages is an obvious and necessary step to keep
>within the
>tight space limits of the XO.In a not too urgent future .. I would like to
>see the "rm" become a "mv" so they can be captured and packaged for
>
Martin,
Thanks for your note. Unfortunately, it left me with more questions than
with answers. Some questions include:
* What use cases are you trying to support?
* What threats obstruct supporting those use cases?
* What trust structure are you trying to create and how does it
mi
On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 12:11:56PM +0545, Bryan Berry wrote:
>VoIP would be more effective but would require much more effort.
Fedora recently set up its own VOIP system, so there may be experts
lurking nearby who could be tempted into assisting you.
Michael
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On Sat, Aug 02, 2008 at 12:45:24PM -0700, Carol Lerche wrote:
>Michael, how did you envision publishing a blog on the Internet without the
>use of a server? The kids are using the write activity to compose their
>posts. I'm confused by your comment.
Carol,
I'm sorry I confused you. I envisioned
On Fri, Aug 01, 2008 at 04:42:58PM -0400, Greg Smith wrote:
>Scott and Michael raised the question of why we didn't build it as a .xo
>only project with no need for server. I explained the constraints of
>time and image in Uruguay and they understood that.
>
>There were less convinced that it sho
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 12:12:48PM +1200, Martin Langhoff wrote:
>Hi Pia!
>
>On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 11:51 AM, greebo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> project however I'm rolling out 703 imaged laptops as we need them to the
>> stable for this deploymeent and apparently the software doesn't work on
>>
Martin,
When releasing ds-backup revisions, please update documentation like
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Ds-backup
Sorry that I forgot as well!
Michael
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On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 03:36:21PM -0400, Robson Mendonça wrote:
> Tomeu, what you think about the Journal can be able to download directly a
> old entry from XS?
Apparently already done; see the support in the Journal for '.xoj'
Journal Entries.
Michael
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On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 07:10:18PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> diff --git a/server/postprocess.py b/server/postprocess.py
> new file mode 100755
> index 000..82a2418
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/server/postprocess.py
> +homebasepath = '/library/users'
> +dirpath = sys.argv[1]
> +fname
On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 08:18:22PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> +def check_server_available(server, xo_serial):
> +
> try:
...
> +ret = urllib2.urlopen(server + '/available/%s' % xo_serial).read()
> +return 200
> +except HTTPError, e:
> +# server is there, did
On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 06:34:15PM -0400, Martin Langhoff wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 6:09 PM, Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Are you saying that you think the overhead of starting a single extra
> > python interpreter is too high?
> $ time py
On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 06:20:02PM -0400, Martin Langhoff wrote:
> Note: this is a work in progress.
Naturally.
> Back to your question: we tack on a "transfer_complete" flag file in a
> 2nd rsync transmission that is conditional on the first one
> succeeding. A better solution is to wrap rsyn
On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 05:24:09PM -0400, Martin Langhoff wrote:
> Scraping it in shell is horrid, and the tests are mixed up (costly and
> cheap tests) so -- I know it looks like a sloppy job, but there wasn't
> anything pretty that I could do there. The point of the shell stage is
> to do what we
On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 05:01:32PM -0400, Martin Langhoff wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 4:42 PM, Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> -def new_backup_notify(server, nonce, xo_serial):
> >> -try:
> >> -auth = sha.sha(nonce + xo_serial)
&
On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 01:46:25PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> From: Martin Langhoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> +# setup datastore connection
> +bus = dbus.SessionBus()
> +obj = bus.get_object(DS_DBUS_SERVICE, DS_DBUS_PATH)
> +datastore = dbus.Interface(obj, DS_DBUS_INTERFACE)
Mig
On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 01:46:37PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> From: Martin Langhoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> - Adds network-detection cribbed from
> olpc-netstatus to skip execution unless we know
> we are in a school network.
Do we know if this XS detection works with UY's school servers?
On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 01:46:32PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> From: Martin Langhoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> +# make the lock dir if needed
> +if [ ! -d ~/.sugar/default/lock ]
> +then
> +mkdir ~/.sugar/default/lock
> +fi
Why not use /var/lock like everybody else? We can add appropriate us
On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 01:46:27PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> +for i in range(0, 10):
Maybe it would be good if we could set the quantity of growth on the
script's command-line?
Michael
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> -def new_backup_notify(server, nonce, xo_serial):
> -try:
> -auth = sha.sha(nonce + xo_serial)
> -# TODO: add auth header
> -ret = urllib.urlopen(server + '/new/%s' % xo_serial).read()
> -except IOError, e:
> -if e[1] == 403:
> -# Auth not accep
On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 03:23:18PM +1200, Martin Langhoff wrote:
> At this stage, I am slowly hacking on ds-backup.py. My plan so far is to
Where can I find your code?
Thanks,
Michael
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On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 06:28:57PM -0400, John Watlington wrote:
>
> I learned more about the network built by the MED in Peru for their
> schools. Each school is in its own VLAN, and cannot route to the
> other schools, only to the Internet and to MED servers.
Pardon my ignorance, but what are
Bryan,
> not very elegant. Would like a better solution but time is short.
I've already suggested three more elegant mechanisms:
* tarball -> edit -> mkfs.jffs2,
* bootUSB -> edit -> savenand, and
* puritan.
> We don't expect the kids to run olpc-update do we? Running OLPC-Update
> on
Martin,
Based on feedback from Peru, Mexico, and Nepal, the "restoration from
disaster-recovery backups" XO/XS coordination feature has been steadily
rising in priority. I also notice that "Backups" is your first line-item
on the XS-0.3 roadmap.
My large question is: "what changes need to be made
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