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On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 10:26 PM, Shaun Pickford wrote:
> I'm having the exact same issue. Any suggestions?
>
> Sha
Forwarding to the school server list.
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From: TONY ANDERSON
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
following are links to doc
On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 9:07 AM, Daniel Drake 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).
>
> Yesterday we r
There have been scattered reports of things like this - for instance
http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/11056 , where I could register XOs to one
schoolserver but not another.
In my case the office schoolserver is a much older computer than the home
schoolserver so I speculated that the response was bei
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 28,
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
controller(
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 wrot
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 explanati
noting this for the record 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 wrote:
> On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 8:20 PM, Samuel Greenfeld
> wrote:
> > At least historically, I have been
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 simi
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, an
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 stud
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
NTFS is supported in OLPC builds, just not by the OS Kernel itself.
The ntfs-3g "filesystem in userspace" package can be used to mount NTFS
drives. So you should be able to use a command like "mount -t ntfs-3g
/dev/ntfs_partition /mnt/mountpoint" if Sugar or GNOME do not automatically
mount the f
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
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 w
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 Grap
Personally I don't want to commit OLPC to anything, but we definitely have
lots of XOs, as well as networks which could potentially isolate a way in.
Load testing also is not new to me since I used to work with network
firewalls and servers.
However the office I am at and the offices historically
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
routers
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 wrote:
>
> On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 7:08 PM, Samuel Greenfeld wrote:
>
>> Unless there are clients that are g
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
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. The
I think you need to be careful how you phrase that -- you just half implied
that all laptop.org hosting is going away. There has been a fair amount of
fear that resources may suddenly disappear, and I have been concerned about
fragmentation where hosting of resources ends up all over the place.
I
p://dev.laptop.org/ticket/11775
> 2. http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/12156
> 3. http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/8499
> 4. http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/1976
>
> - Original Message -
> From: "Samuel Greenfeld"
> To: "James Cameron" , "Anish Mangal&q
onship
>> between Fedora and Redhat. He considered Fedora's relationship to
>> Redhat it's greatest strength and its greatest weakness. The financial
>> support and developer resources were valuable... but there were
>> strings attached.
>>
>> We would be happy to h
On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 9:42 AM, George Hunt 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 lower cost/capabili
>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 wi
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 EPEL[*]
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,
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,
ac
tructions assume
> that the installation is done from an XO (assuming a deployment has those).
> The devil is in the details, and these seem as endless as a visit to Hell.
>
> Tony
>
>
>
> On 03/11/2015 03:02 AM, Samuel Greenfeld wrote:
>
>> You are taking my remar
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 Dir
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.
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
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 will cut it to th
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 wrote:
>
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 expe
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 dollar
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 filesy
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