[Server-devel] wwwoffle?

2011-01-21 Thread Dan Zubey
Hi. I'm jumping in with my feet into the XS server environment; I'd like to help out where needed. I found the doc http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_Project_Ideas which is rather dated, but mentions the need for wwwoffle. I'm wondering if that's still a felt need where I could lend a hand, or if t

Re: [Server-devel] The old xs-livecd is the new olpc-xs-builder

2011-01-21 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Fri, 2011-01-21 at 17:24 -0500, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 3:45 PM, Martin Langhoff > wrote: > > While not as modular and elegant as olpc-os-builder, we do have a > > collection of tools and configs that, operated correctly, build XS > > isos for installation. This can be

Re: [Server-devel] The old xs-livecd is the new olpc-xs-builder

2011-01-21 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 3:45 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote: > While not as modular and elegant as olpc-os-builder, we do have a > collection of tools and configs that, operated correctly, build XS > isos for installation. This can be useful to prepare a custom > auto-intalling iso with preconfigured s

Re: [Server-devel] Picostation APs

2011-01-21 Thread Tom Parker
On Fri, 2011-01-21 at 09:04 -0800, Sameer Verma wrote: > Thanks for the feedback. It helps. Were you able to fix the AP on a > specific channel (1, 6 ,or 11)? Absolutely. The Picostation "AirOS" software is very full featured with an easy to use web interface for configuration.

Re: [Server-devel] Picostation APs

2011-01-21 Thread Sameer Verma
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 2:16 AM, Tom Parker wrote: > On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 19:26 -0800, Sameer Verma wrote: >> Any useful feedback/criticisms on the Ubiquiti Picostation units being >> used in the Samoa deployment? http://www.ubnt.com/picostation We are >> debating between these and WRT54GL units

Re: [Server-devel] "Administrative" login for political reasons

2011-01-21 Thread Anna
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 10:19 AM, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 10:07 PM, Sameer Verma wrote: > > You are hilariously evil >8-)~ > > I think I'll scare new XS admins with "if you have problems with > managing your XS... we'll ask Anna to come help you... mbwahahahaha". > > Ne

Re: [Server-devel] "Administrative" login for political reasons

2011-01-21 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 10:07 PM, Sameer Verma wrote: > You are hilariously evil >8-)~ I think I'll scare new XS admins with "if you have problems with managing your XS... we'll ask Anna to come help you... mbwahahahaha". cheers, m --  martin.langh...@gmail.com  mar...@laptop.org -- School Se

Re: [Server-devel] The old xs-livecd is the new olpc-xs-builder

2011-01-21 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 10:52 AM, David Farning wrote: > Would it be sane and possible to extend olpc-os-builder to build XS isos? I gladly hack on olpc-os-builder, and the answer is... no, I don't think it'd be worthwhile. The toolchain used is different. XO OSs are complex and tricky... and bu

Re: [Server-devel] The old xs-livecd is the new olpc-xs-builder

2011-01-21 Thread David Farning
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 2:45 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote: > The XS build tools have not used the livecd toolchain for a long time > -- so the name is not appropriate. Time for a rename (and repo reorg). > > While not as modular and elegant as olpc-os-builder, we do have a > collection of tools and c

Re: [Server-devel] "Administrative" login for political reasons

2011-01-21 Thread Mike Dawson
Beautiful! I think I might package this and do the same. If you wanna be really evil, one could have a system that automatically after one week of no login activity posts messages on certain forums / email lists. I wish folks would appreciate the value of the time of folks that actually work wit

Re: [Server-devel] Picostation APs

2011-01-21 Thread Tom Parker
On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 19:26 -0800, Sameer Verma wrote: > Any useful feedback/criticisms on the Ubiquiti Picostation units being > used in the Samoa deployment? http://www.ubnt.com/picostation We are > debating between these and WRT54GL units for Jamaica. Unfortunately, I can't give a large amount