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

2013-08-20 Thread David Van Assche
IMHO it might be worth looking at udoo - Linux machine made made up of arduino + 4 raspberry pis. I've signed up with them via rockstarter So I'll tell u guys about it. Also signed up for wig wag and portable 3d printer (kinda essential for onsight repairs - works wonders) that and much more

Re: [Server-devel] Regarding my OLPC XS Wishlist

2011-11-19 Thread David Van Assche
and Fedora, probably the most known and used... though I guess much more so outside the US, seeing as its German in origin... kind regards, David Van Assche On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 11:20 AM, Aleksey Lim alsr...@activitycentral.orgwrote: On Thu, Jun 02, 2011 at 06:29:51PM +1000, Sridhar Dhanapalan

Re: [Server-devel] [Dextrose] Regarding my OLPC XS Wishlist

2011-11-19 Thread David Van Assche
? David Van Assche On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 3:31 AM, Bernie Innocenti ber...@sugarlabs.orgwrote: On Thu, 2011-06-02 at 11:57 -0400, Martin Langhoff wrote: On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 11:56 AM, Aleksey Lim alsr...@activitycentral.org wrote: Have you spent any time learning how to configure ejabberd

Re: Rapid DHCP

2011-08-01 Thread David Van Assche
using dnsmasq instead of bind also speeds up lookups On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 11:07 PM, Sascha Silbe sascha-ml-reply-to-201...@silbe.org wrote: Excerpts from Sridhar Dhanapalan's message of Fri Jul 29 17:51:30 +0200 2011: Here's an article that tries to explain why Mac OS is so much faster at

Re: [Server-devel] Dansguardian on XS

2011-04-05 Thread David Van Assche
in step #1). I can help with the script for #2... Modern versions of XS seem to be moving to using something a little more hackable than bind might be wiorth taking into account... Kind regards, David Van Assche, Tech Specialist m -- martin.langh...@gmail.com mar...@laptop.org

Re: [Server-devel] Dansguardian on XS

2011-04-05 Thread David Van Assche
in step #1). I can help with the script for #2... Modern versions of XS seem to be moving to using something a little more hackable than bind might be wiorth taking into account... Kind regards, David Van Assche, Tech Specialist m -- martin.langh...@gmail.com mar...@laptop.org

Re: XO power management

2011-04-02 Thread David Van Assche
Sounds like someone we really really need to help out with the power problems we have been havingf throughout SA These problems already originated in España so I wouldn't be surprised if there is a link... who knows, maybe we can fix it in a couple of days optimism ALWAYS amigo! kindr

[Server-devel] Fwd: wwwoffle, patched squid+some form of dns

2011-02-19 Thread David Van Assche
Redirected to list for further input -- Forwarded message -- From: David Van Assche dvanass...@gmail.com Date: Feb 19, 2011 4:49 PM Subject: wwwoffle, patched squid+some form of dns To: mar...@laptop.org, t...@lists.activitycentral.com Thanks for the kind email. Just to give u

Re: [Server-devel] wwwoffle?

2011-02-19 Thread David Van Assche
Please send me a copy of the script as we are testing wwwoffle. Thanks On Feb 19, 2011 2:40 AM, Dan Zubey dzu...@openincident.com wrote: Okay, I have an initial cut of the script, and it works well on my laptop. Can I pass this along to someone to test? How should I publish it? I do not have

[Server-devel] info on current deployments

2011-01-28 Thread David Van Assche
, firewall rules, etc) Any information could help to extend the existing XS for specific user cases... kind regards, David Van Assche ___ Server-devel mailing list server-de...@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel

Re: [Server-devel] OLPC Moodle use

2010-04-22 Thread David Van Assche
nope, is it a moodle site with creative commons material, because if it is, we can copy the content over to schools and l-for-e. Hmmm... actually looking at it now It seems to be extremely slow, or maybe thats just my connection right now. In any case it does seem non-moodle, but if its creative

Re: [Server-devel] Collaboration server for existing network

2010-04-22 Thread David Van Assche
Just out of curiosity... could those patches be added to other distros? Its just a question... not trying to imply a switch or anything... kind regards, David On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 10:58 PM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 4:46 PM, David Van Assche

Re: [Server-devel] Populating the Moodle db with users

2010-04-22 Thread David Van Assche
What I did is open openoffice DB, select the relevant feels as filter, and then like Martin said, import as cvs. kind regards, David Van Assche On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 3:05 AM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.comwrote: On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 8:25 PM, Ben T benjt...@gmail.com wrote

Re: [Server-devel] OLPC Moodle use

2010-04-17 Thread David Van Assche
no location where one can download or interactively use the learning materials necessary to finally end up with the suite of diplomas available from ECDL. We hope to change this soon... kind regards, David Van Assche On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 2:56 AM, Frederick Grose fgr...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri

Re: Android, OLPC, and native hosting

2010-01-02 Thread David Van Assche
Speaking of android, has anyone heard anything about google's other OS, chrome OS? kind regards, David On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 7:31 PM, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com wrote: NoiseEHC, I think your arguments would be more convincing if you didn't respond to every email, especially when you'd

Re: [Sugar-devel] User workflow sharing Journal Entries over USB sticks

2009-11-12 Thread David Van Assche
presence state, avtar, and any ohter cool sutff xmpp can do... I'm jus saying should we be exploring it? Daivd On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 2:08 PM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.comwrote: On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 1:55 PM, David Van Assche dvanass...@gmail.com wrote: inclydiung usb

Re: [Sugar-devel] User workflow sharing Journal Entries over USB sticks

2009-11-12 Thread David Van Assche
and storing images in Base64 for example? David On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 4:12 PM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.comwrote: On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 4:06 PM, Bert Freudenberg b...@freudenbergs.de wrote: IMHO separating the meta-data from the file itself is a good idea. Having one

Re: [Sugar-devel] On Sugar 0.84 - status of the Chat/collab leader issue...

2009-11-07 Thread David Van Assche
... and give a warning or something, or keep some kind of sym links to the old functions... I dunno, kinda above my level of expertise... regards, David van Assche On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 2:02 PM, Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org wrote: On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 13:16, Benjamin M. Schwartz bmsch

Re: [Sugar-devel] On Sugar 0.84 - status of the Chat/collab leader issue...

2009-11-04 Thread David Van Assche
and you'll see what I mean: http://people.collabora.co.uk/~danni/telepathy-book/chapter.accounts.html kind regards, David Van Assche On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 10:38 AM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 9:54 PM, David Van Assche dvanass...@gmail.com wrote: moving

Re: [Sugar-devel] On Sugar 0.84 - status of the Chat/collab leader issue...

2009-11-04 Thread David Van Assche
Don't get me wrong though, I agree thoroughly that we should really test it and make sure it plays as advertised But I think its gonna be easier to do that than test/scale/stabalise what we currently have. David On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 11:06 AM, David Van Assche dvanass...@gmail.com wrote

Re: [Sugar-devel] On Sugar 0.84 - status of the Chat/collab leader issue...

2009-11-03 Thread David Van Assche
thought about yet I know its exciting stuff though I dont thnink I'll be able to make it to Bolzano, but I understand there will be a strong remote presences... so I'd be happy to help out in that area, kind regards, David Van Assche On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 4:30 PM, Tomeu Vizoso

Re: [Server-devel] Moodle Integration Status - Was [IAEP] Where should we put Lesson Plans? Currwiki?

2009-09-14 Thread David Van Assche
out to all the students and student work in to teacher efficiently. Is there documentation? Can you make me a screen cast? This may well be valuable enough that its worth helping the teachers and students climb the UIs learning curve. On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 3:08 AM, David Van Assche

Re: [Server-devel] [IAEP] Where should we put Lesson Plans? Currwiki?

2009-09-13 Thread David Van Assche
for attacking, if it seemed that way, but it really does seem like people haven't studied themultitude of options that Moodle offers. kind Regard, David Van Assche Thanks, Caroline On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 12:57 PM, Chris Rowe ch...@ole.org wrote: Caroline, We at Open Learning Exchange (OLE) have

Re: [Server-devel] a sample moodle course

2009-07-01 Thread David Van Assche
2 places to look: linux-for-education.org openlearn.open,ac.uk A whíle back I was working on converting some paper based math materials with Albert Calahan, but like so many of these things, time was not really on my side, and I kinda let Albert down. I hope I get some more time soon, so pick

Re: [Server-devel] web file manager

2009-06-16 Thread David Van Assche
Might be worth taking a look at ifolder... http://www.ifolder.com/ifolder Used to be an old netware project which novell has revived and thrown into opensource domain... totally cross platform too... kind regards, David Van Assche On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 6:44 PM, Rodolfo D. Arce S.rodolfoa

Re: [Server-devel] [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] collaboration testing session

2009-06-05 Thread David Van Assche
so you can try to correlate any spikes to specific activities. Thanks, Caroline On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 12:09 AM, David Van Assche dvanass...@gmail.com wrote: Hi folks, We are having a collaborative sugar testing session next week Wednesday 10th June at 20:00 UTC (That is 4

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sharing to Groups

2009-05-19 Thread David Van Assche
, what should I leave enabled so we can cut the fat as it were... kind Regards, David Van Assche On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 9:42 AM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 2:19 AM, Rodrigo Padula de Oliveira rodrigopad...@projetofedora.org wrote: Martin Langhoff

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sharing to Groups

2009-05-19 Thread David Van Assche
(Nubae) Van Assche On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 3:11 PM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 1:53 PM, David Van Assche dvanass...@gmail.com wrote: Talking about moodle, we really should decide what to enable on the Not only stop scaring people, but provide content

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sharing to Groups

2009-05-19 Thread David Van Assche
19, 2009 at 6:30 AM, David Van Assche dvanass...@gmail.com wrote: ah great, would be nice to be able to take care of everything, but think we have enough work on our hands, if we could get some other people on board that are experienced moodle admins, that would be great. thanks Martin

Re: [Server-devel] ARM based XS ?

2009-05-18 Thread David Van Assche
with less policy stuff... kind Regards, David Van Assche On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 1:35 PM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 3:11 AM, rihowa...@gmail.com rihowa...@gmail.com wrote: According to the http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM

Re: Summary Minutes from olpc-friends' Tuesday Deployment Meeting

2009-01-29 Thread David Van Assche
Enjoy: hpachas _sj_, los temas de implementación pasan por 3 temas importantes the implementation themes are split into 3 important ones: hpachas _sj_, logistico, técnico y pedagógico logistics, technical and pedagogical hpachas pienso que se deben agendar reuniones en base a

[Server-devel] XS as virtual image

2009-01-20 Thread David Van Assche
Is it possible to run the XS server as a virtual Image. The school where we have currently deployed XOs has a windows 2003 server that could carry a virtual image... Its not what I called Ideal, but I was wondering whether it would work... kind Regards, David Van Assche

Re: Wacom Bamboo with XO?

2008-11-17 Thread David Van Assche
too, so I dont see why it wouldnt work with an xo. (not that I'm comparing the 2) Anyway I'd imagine using the instructions found here and following the fedora core 3 guidelines should get you up and running: http://linuxwacom.sourceforge.net/index.php/howto/main Kind Regards, David Van Assche

[Server-devel] Fwd: [Ltsp-discuss] SolarNetOne solar-powered LTSP installation

2008-10-27 Thread David Van Assche
This is very relevant to what's being done serverside for the XS... small form solar powered server that transmits networking up to 2 miles http://gnuveau.net/cgi-bin/wiki.cgi David -- Forwarded message -- From: Bjorn Helgaas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at

Re: [Server-devel] DansGuardian (was What's cooking in the XS pot this week, (2008-10--01))

2008-10-06 Thread David Van Assche
You may want to look into SquidGuard... it may be an alternative to Dansguardian as it seems much lighterweight and more customizable in the way you've been doing the bash side of things on the XS to date: http://www.squidguard.org/ Kind Regards, David Van Assche On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 1:01 PM

Re: [Server-devel] XS Splashscreen / logo

2008-09-01 Thread David Van Assche
Nice, except took me almost a minute to figure out that the central part of the X was an S... maybe I'm just slow I don't know David Van Assche 2008/9/1 Jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I couldn't find any existing logo, so I came up with this concept: http://www.wildcoast.com/node/402 Comments

Re: OFW Q2E14 is available for testing

2008-08-28 Thread David Van Assche
heys... Anyone know if deb XO will work on the Eee? (old gen) and classmate (new gen)? David Van Assche 2008/8/28 Christoph Derndorfer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 9:32 AM, S Page [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mitch Bradley wrote: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Firmware_q2e14

Re: [Server-devel] Aternative setting for eth0 on servers that are not #1

2008-08-28 Thread David Van Assche
to measure how those things really affect the network without breaches and excessive you-tube usage, which a centralised dansguardian is usually gonna block anyway... just my 2 or 3 cents... David Van Assche, Educaction IT Consultant On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 6:00 AM, Martin Langhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED

[Server-devel] xs-rsync

2008-08-18 Thread David Van Assche
joyride-2013? ok, think thats it... thanks David Van Assche OLE Nepal ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel

Re: [Server-devel] xs-rsync

2008-08-18 Thread David Van Assche
On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 12:19 PM, Martin Langhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 6:18 PM, David Van Assche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been playing around with this for a while but a couple of questions have come up which I can't resolve: 1. In the XS-rsync document

Re: [Server-devel] xs-rsync

2008-08-18 Thread David Van Assche
, but not otherwise... and Ive pasted the version i have below... any ideas? On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 1:31 PM, David Van Assche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 12:19 PM, Martin Langhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 6:18 PM, David Van Assche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've

Re: [Server-devel] Ubuntu XS

2008-08-17 Thread David Van Assche
You can count me in on that... I've been pushing for debian or ubuntu to be the XS platform for a while, and I know Martin Langhoff sort of feels the same way... but since so much work has already been done on Fedora, we should see how feasable it is to make 2 concurrent XS rollouts... but yeah

[Server-devel] mailserver+squirrelmail

2008-08-08 Thread David Van Assche
If anyone is interested, I can post the procedure to get postfix+dovecot+sasl and squirrelmail working on the XS server ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel

Re: Using flock in bash blocks

2008-08-07 Thread David Van Assche
Well dont know if this helps but I was playing with dovecot recently, and remember reading this: # Locking method for index files. Alternatives are fcntl, flock and dotlock. # Dotlocking uses some tricks which may create more disk I/O than other locking # methods. NFS users: flock doesn't work,

Re: [Server-devel] Need help: mounting usb devices on headless machines

2008-08-07 Thread David Van Assche
The LTSP version of Fedora does automounting of drives (usb, floppy, cd)... maybe take a look at the code used to implement it... David On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 3:04 PM, Martin Langhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 6:37 PM, Martin Langhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Option two

[Server-devel] recommended ip fw rules

2008-08-05 Thread David Van Assche
So, even though we are using shorewall for now (it didnt break with an upgrade from 163 to 164, if it does at some point, we'll go back to using straight iptables) here are some recommended additions/changes: - change port 3128 to 8081 (if one installs dansguardian, which really should be

[Server-devel] moodle and authentication

2008-08-05 Thread David Van Assche
address what do u think? David Van Assche OLE Nepal ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel

Re: Abiword 2.6.4 on Ubuntu (was Re: [sugar] Write needs your help)

2008-07-17 Thread David Van Assche
the source that should work too I can build it without problems on my hardy system... just requires a lot of development library dependencies like below, you need to install libglib2.0-dev Kind Regards, David Van Assche On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 11:47 PM, Edward Cherlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: [Server-devel] volunteer for offline Moodle

2008-07-13 Thread David Van Assche
So the Google Gears rpm is finished (good lesson for me on how to package for Fedora) and we are working on the final obstacle for Browse, which is finding where in God's name the chrome subdirs are supposed to go... when thats done, we can create the browse rpm too... So I have a slightly

Re: [Server-devel] volunteer for offline Moodle

2008-07-09 Thread David Van Assche
of a waste...) David Van Assche m -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff ___ Server

Re: [Server-devel] Wikiserver on XS

2008-06-28 Thread David Van Assche
promising for offline moodle. Both projects are still in BETA though, although the parties involved would be only too happy to get involved with something for OLPC... this provides an on and online wiki solution too (imho)... Kind Regards, David Van Assche On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 8:41 AM, Bryan

Re: [Server-devel] progress on Moodle for the XS

2008-05-07 Thread David Van Assche
- Single Sign On - Moodle will probably be the main SSO point, with MediaWiki and other tools either reading the SSO credentials from Moodle (via OpenID?) or directly off the client. Surely it makes more sense to use LDAP for single sign on, as it is supported by moodle and many more

[Server-devel] possible browser option for the XOs

2008-04-18 Thread David Van Assche
Hi, A very talented programmer on the ubuntu team coded this: http://people.ubuntu.com/~ogra/LightBrowser/ Its based on xulrunner and incredibly small, stable and fast... only uses between 15 and 20 megs of ram, vs 40 or 50 of current gecko browser... anyway, just thought I'd throw it out

Re: [Server-devel] introduction...

2008-04-17 Thread David Van Assche
- a lot of configuration settings We will package all of those in .debs soon, but it is a ton of complex work for you if you want to do it on your own. Try build 161 or 162, cope a bit with Fedora, and be part of the wider project here... cheers, martin 2008/4/11 David Van Assche [EMAIL