suggest new mailing lists for OLPC

2008-11-14 Thread Bill Bogstad
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 9:53 AM, Martin Langhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 9:17 AM, Bill Bogstad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Responding to ds-backup issues first: Great summary -- should we move this to devel and/or server-devel? The above was from what was an off-list

Re: [Server-devel] suggest new mailing lists for OLPC

2008-11-14 Thread Bill Bogstad
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 1:03 PM, Martin Langhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 11:16 AM, Bill Bogstad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can I suggest instead a new mailing list for server SUPPORT be created as opposed to DEVELOPMENT? And what about doing XO support on commmunity

Re: [Server-devel] Issue with ds-backup in XS 0.4

2008-11-11 Thread Bill Bogstad
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 1:58 PM, Martin Langhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 12:18 AM, Bill Bogstad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was just about to try to upgrade my XS 0.4 to 0.5 dev8 and noticed something odd concerning ds-backup. When I originally installed 0.4, Thanks

Re: [Server-devel] Issue with ds-backup in XS 0.4

2008-11-11 Thread Bill Bogstad
might even be able to stop by to help with the test installs... Bill Bogstad ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel

[Server-devel] XS 0.4 to 0.5 upgrade (vs. reinstall) path

2008-11-10 Thread Bill Bogstad
, Bill Bogstad ___ Server-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel

Re: RW Compressed FUSE FSs? (Re: XS - XO archiving and backup)

2008-11-10 Thread Bill Bogstad
be any?? 'executables'. i.e. You won't get the large reduction that you see in backups of Windows/Linux clients OS images where 4 or 5 gigs of storage is replicated across all of the machines you are backing up. Bill Bogstad ___ Devel mailing list Devel

Re: [sugar] 9.1 Proposal: Files

2008-10-29 Thread Bill Bogstad
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 8:11 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 29 Oct 2008, Bill Bogstad wrote: Alternative proposal to encourage Journal use: When the system boots, start in the Activity view with the Journal; not in the Home view. Pre-populate Journal with entries for the recently

Re: [Server-devel] xs-otp: one time passwords for the XS

2008-10-26 Thread Bill Bogstad
call into the BIOS to do disk IO at this point in the boot process? Is there anything that such a card could usefully do with nothing more then its code. What if you add a small amount of battery backed CMOS and an onboard clock chip to the card? Bill Bogstad

[Server-devel] Weird timestamps on XS 0.4 user backup directories.

2008-10-25 Thread Bill Bogstad
:00). The change time stamps on the other hand are consistent with the names. Is there a reason for this? Why that particular date/time for the mod time? Bill Bogstad ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org

Re: [Server-devel] Weird timestamps on XS 0.4 user backup directories.

2008-10-25 Thread Bill Bogstad
On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 6:18 PM, Douglas Bagnall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The backup directories are created with cp -al, where the -a (for archive) recursively preserves modes, links and dates. I'm pretty sure the main intention was to keep modes and links, and dates are just an artifact.

Re: 9.1 Proposal: Printing support

2008-10-21 Thread Bill Bogstad
and USB memory sticks could be a reasonable print solution for many. Bill Bogstad ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: 9.1 Proposal: Printing support

2008-10-20 Thread Bill Bogstad
. Instead of Write generating a postscript/pdf file and queuing it, just send the file directly. CUPS already has management of the print queues via http (which is really just ipp). So why not add the ability to accept all the 'standard' file formats which XO activities generate? Bill Bogstad

[Server-devel] help with small/first world XS deployment issues requested

2008-10-19 Thread Bill Bogstad
on this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Bill Bogstad ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel

Re: [Server-devel] physical security issue

2008-10-07 Thread Bill Bogstad
. But it does put the server in the hands of a presumably trusted individual in the community. One obvious problem is what happens if that teacher doesn't come to work today. In any school with more then one teacher, this would seem to be a potential problem. Bill Bogstad

Re: [Server-devel] Expected date for 8.2.0

2008-09-11 Thread Bill Bogstad
why should X or S be there at all. I can't think of any of the XO Activities that use letters/words in their icons at all... Bill Bogstad P.S. I checked the Activities page: ABC Hangman, Epals, a couple of wiki related activities with stylized W, and C: for dos emulator. In those cases, using

Re: [Server-devel] Yummy incron

2008-06-26 Thread Bill Bogstad
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 2:50 PM, Martin Langhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 2:36 PM, Bill Bogstad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm confused. Won't the XS servers always have swap/paging space? Paging is tolerable for batch processes, or for interactive stuff

Re: [Server-devel] Yummy incron

2008-06-25 Thread Bill Bogstad
to flash probably being a bad idea), I would agree with you. Bill Bogstad ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel