The XSCE repo, inherited from laptop.org has grown to 80MB+.
Recently, then the raspberry pi3 came out, as an experiment, I started
a branch off or XSCE, which was initially aimed at a quick and dirty
demo that our code could run on top of raspbian.
Later, when that demonstration, seemed successfu
It's been 6 months since release 6.0, and the XSCE team has been busy.
What's New?
- Calibre -- A tool for managing a library of eBooks, modifying their
file formats, adding search terms, and making them available online.
- Wordpress -- A content management system which gives students
I do most of my testing of real hardware, and came across the VGA problem
also, I've migrated to using the hdmi input to my monitor, and dongles
that translate to hdmi. And I'm able to swap the monitor cable
indiscriminately.
On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 3:59 PM, Adam Holt wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 29,
Peter,
What can you tell me about rpi3 bluetooth support in the F-24 images that
will be coming out soon?
By necessity, I've been playing with raspian, because there's been a lot of
hype/hope for opportunistic device to device file sharing with rpi3.
On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 3:23 AM, Peter Robins
impressive!
>
> Also some schools campuses are just too large to tie in all the IT infra
> together, with buildings just too far apart. So there will be several
> inexpensive school servers likely in these schools, who do not want to
> network their buildings together at this poi
packet is being received late just after the
> system sends the card an unrelated command, and you might observe a
> response to tuning of the ping interval.
>
> Do you have your latest kernel source available anywhere?
>
> On Sat, Apr 02, 2016 at 11:44:03AM -0700, George Hunt wrote:
>
The recent SD cards are so cheap, and wikipedia in various languages is
such a good replacement for the encyclopedia I devoured as a kid, I spent a
few weeks on this project.
The results were mixed, but just not good enough. The XO1.5 can act as a
gateway for a few minutes, or a few hours (with a
ystemd journal for olpc-dm ...
>
> systemctl status olpc-dm.service | cat
>
> To look at olpc-dm client logs ...
>
> cat /tmp/olpc-dm*
>
> Do both of these in the failed state as well as the working state to
> identify the differences.
>
> On Mon,
I missed one obvious clue, thinking that Xorg.log was the strategic place
to look.
/var/log/messages (search olpc-dm) shows
- "olpc-dm.service holdoff time over, scheduling restart"
- and then "xauth: file /var/tmp/olpc-auth/.Xauthority does not exist"
googling "Xauthority create olpc" doe
I recently attended the SF OLPC monthly meeting, and Alex Kleider was
asking for help getting the wifi going.
So before I offered to help, I came home and downloaded the image that I
had worked on back in March (almost forgotten). (just dd if=
of=>/dev/sdb or whatever> bs=4M)
When I just went to
Back in the 2010 timeframe, there was an effort to add Access Point
capability to first the XO1, and later the XO1.5. Of particular interest to
me is [1], which documents in detail how to install and configure the
Thinfirm libertas driver. I found evidence in the git repo [2] that the
driver was bu
Thanks to James Cameron's work on FC22 kernel, I have an image of XSCE
running in an SD card on an XO1.5.
The regular libertas driver works as a client.
There is documentation for using a special driver, and special firmware at
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Libertas_Thinfirmware_HOWTO:
http://wiki.l
ce it in the /etc/openvpn/ directory of "sora
server"
Sorry I missed your request when it came 3 days ago.
On Sat, Jun 13, 2015 at 7:54 PM, Gonzalo Odiard
wrote:
> Could I use your passthrough server to access Sora server?
> What we should do setup it?
>
> Gonzalo
>
>
Typically a server is behind some sort of NAT device, and some sort of
firewall, and most likely has a variable ip address assigned by the ISP's
dhcpd. The trick is to have the server initiate an outgoing conversation
to a device on the internet that is always on. I purchased a micro
instance on
If I set just the goals of getting keyboard input, and display output, what
problems will I face trying to use defconfig_xo1.5 from dev.laptop.org
(x86-3.3 branch)?
Does anyone have a config file that works on the XO1.5 on a Fedora release
later than FC18 that I might springboard from?
So far, I'
Tim<
Adam wanted me to discuss centos with Fiji. So I tried to do an install of
current master on Centos.
The kalite-serve enable timed out, and it looks from the log that it might
have been creating datasets when ansible yanked it away. Have you
discovered how to recover from this situation?
O
And testing is going to be a lot rough at first. I started using Tim's
suggestion to build up an automated server from
https://github.com/XSCE/xsce-tests. But when it didn't work, I discovered
that I was using an XO1.5, and the code had been written for an XO1, but
the documentation didn't indicate
Just got my second rpi, and discovered that they both failed until I used a
more robust USB to micro USB power cable.
It's pretty fast, for just 3watts, including the USB wifi dongle.
To get the full install on fc21, I needed to comment out ajenti at
/opt/schoolserver/xsce/roles/8-tools/meta/main
Somehow I missed this email. I agree with Tim, that we need to standardize
a place for a version number of the school server.
I can create openvpn keys for all three schoolservers, and we can preload
them into /etc/openvpn. Then all that is required is to change the
variable in /usr/bin/xs-vpn,
ink. I've been impressed
with the support we can get for village telco units.
> Thanks.
> Ben
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 6:10 AM, George Hunt
> wrote:
>
>> Tony,
>>
>> I'm currently running the i3 NUC off of a solar charged LA battery. Boots
>&g
False starts:
- Order NUC, 8GB memory from Amazon
- Insert Memory, hard disk, get no Power On Self Test Bios display
- Memory I purchased not on Intel's list
- Order memory from list
- Still no Bios display
- Get a NUC replacement from Amazon
- Replacement displays same sympto
Tim discovered that backups to the XSCE in release 5.0 were failing. I had
changed ds-backup-server to use the WSGI interface (mod_python was
obsoleted in FC18). So I assumed that the ball was in my court. But I
believe the test just completed indicates that the problem was really that
the superu
After looking vainly in the wrong places
I discovered this change made by Richard Smith 15 months ago to ds-backup
client code:
# can't resolve & ping? outta here
# OS release 12.1 and 13.1 dropped suid from ping so we try to run it with
# root privs as sudo. If a root password has
nal changes are placed after the commits to master
> in the upstream repo. I am also less interested in the commit history
> because we have way too much of it and seldom go back to it.
>
> Tim
>
> *From:* George Hunt
> *Sent:* Thursday, June 12, 2014 9:25 PM
> *To:*
Request for purchase information below:
On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 2:25 AM, Adam Holt wrote:
> Nepal will be our focus today, with core developer Sumit Acharya joining
> us live from Nepal working thru the evolution of OLE Nepal's many schools
> servers.
>
> With OLE Nepal's new MSI DC111 servers r
The fact that the screen comes up on a client XO suggests that the server
is configured correctly.
Build 852 is a very old build. I looked in sugarlabs.org activities browse,
to see if there were any newer Browse versions that work with sugar .84.
It does not look to be the case.
I suggest loadi
We're making small steps. Tim took Jon's kernel work, and added in a root
file system, and zipped a 4Gb image. I picked that up, and installed XSCE
5.0 (mostly successfully), and rezipped, and posted that up at
http://download.unleashkids.org/xsce/downloads/.
There is the beginnings of documentat
I woke up this morning with a wider focus than I had yesterday.
Earlier, I had been concerned that XSCE 5.0 had been broken for over a
month, because our rpms are no longer available on activitycentral.com. I
fixed that problem, and pushed it to tag 5.0 on github a couple of days ago.
But then ye
Just a small step, but XSCE 5.0 now installs on Cubox. Start with Tim's
image, and comment out ajenti in roles/core/meta/main.yml. I re-rolled
xs-moodle, ds-backup to use cronie rather than vixie-cron, and PyYAML
rather than python-syck.
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To some extent, it will depend on which services you are using in Malaysia.
As starters:
- /var/log/ -- has system messages, and all the squid cache stuff
- /library/users -- will have all the XO client backups for all the XO's
that have been registered with the server
- While you're
es Cameron wrote:
> It would be interesting to see the same test with XSCE, ejabberd, and
> three APs on separate channels. This would reduce the processing
> burden on the AP CPUs, and reduce the air time requirement.
>
> On Mon, Apr 07, 2014 at 06:55:55PM -0400, George Hunt wrote:
This number resonates with me. Kevin Gordon, in Toronto, was interested in
XSCE primarily because it would offer ejabberd, without which the factorial
N conversations taken two at a time would fill the air waves at N=13.
I'm responding this way because of your statement that the clients were
"non
> > version, board version, u-boot version OS etc. Writing a proper
> > cookbook is time I just don't have. Hopefully one of the other
> > contributors will step up and get it done.
> >
> > -Jon
> >
> > On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 3:43 PM, George Hunt
>
ged a bit as the new kernel is using the new
> device-tree based configuration. I will build you guys a testing
> kernel tarball and u-boot in a little bit.
>
> -Jon
>
> On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 12:18 AM, George Hunt
> wrote:
> > Hi Jon,
> >
> > I
Hi Jon,
Is it correct that I can follow the directions at:
http://imx.solid-run.com/wiki/index.php?title=Building_the_kernel_and_u-boot_for_the_CuBox-i_and_the_HummingBoard
with a clone from the github link you provided at
https://github.com/linux4kix/linux-linaro-stable-mx6? Are there any
got
I guess you'd need to look at the services individually, and determine what
you had changed during the testing, and reverse it.
I suppose you could run the ansible playbook again. It might reinitialize
some files for you. Using the "runansible" script should not destroy the
function of the server
connect to
> xsce.activitycentral.com rather than amazon.
>
> Tim
>
> *From:* George Hunt
> *Sent:* Thursday, February 13, 2014 8:22 PM
> *To:* tkk...@nurturingasia.com
> *Cc:* Tim Moody ; Adam Holt
> *Subject:* Re: XSCE5: OpenVPN usage
>
> T.K.,
>
> Unfortuna
es.
Jan 8 is 2 days from now!
What do others think?
On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 9:37 PM, Adam Holt wrote:
> Thanks Sameer, fyi George's XO-4 should arrive by Tues.
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 9:31 PM, Sameer Verma wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 3:47 PM, George Hu
day, January 04, 2014 12:15 PM
> *To:* xsce-devel
> *Cc:* George Hunt ; XS
> Devel
> *Subject:* Re: [XSCE] Re: Cubox Solidrun Prototype Packaging
>
> Those and some sheet metal screws or pop rivets look about perfect to me.
>
>
> On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 6:13 PM,
he 3.10 kernel. I have one last
> intermittent bug that I think is fixed and then it should be ready for
> testing. If everything runs fine overnight it will be ready tomorrow
> morning.
>
That's excellent!
>
> -Jon
>
>
> On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 4:44 PM, George
l as my IR thermometer to make sure
> things look reasonable.
>
>
>
> On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 3:48 PM, George Hunt wrote:
>
>> What's the best strategy long term? The cubox has all its connectors on
>> one face. Most of these need to be available to the outside. W
What's the best strategy long term? The cubox has all its connectors on one
face. Most of these need to be available to the outside. We can open the
cubox and solder a esata connector that comes out the back. Picture is at
http://imx.solid-run.com/wiki/index.php?title=CuBox-i_Hardware.
Or we can t
iming as directly as we can for the goal. I could create the github
presence, and you could contribute deltas. Which direction is easiest for
you?
On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 7:23 PM, George Hunt wrote:
> Thanks James
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 7:06 PM, James Cameron wrote:
Thanks James
On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 7:06 PM, James Cameron wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 03, 2014 at 06:47:25PM -0500, George Hunt wrote:
> > Can I ask someone to email me the XO4 /boot/conf* file. I'm not at
> > home, and I didn't bring an ARM XO with me to California. I woul
ace. I
searched the config I'm using. There were "SATA" config lines which were
not enabled.
Jon, what hardware have you been using? Maybe I can get you to email or
post your config file.
On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 12:16 AM, James Cameron wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 02, 2014 at 12:00:4
al info on it from the forum a while ago, but not exactly
> would be used in production.
>
> If you gather any detailed information on it as you work with the
> prototypes it would be good if you can share it here.
>
> Thanks
> Terry
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 6:03 A
rrow and I will have time to get you booted and everything
> running.
>
> Happy New Years
>
> -Jon
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 5:31 PM, George Hunt wrote:
>
>> Jon,
>>
>> Got the rootfs up and running. The problem I was having last night
>> turned
;t work we with many of the screens in xfce, which is the
default for the rootfs I grabbed.
Also I'm not recognizing the esata enclosure/drive. I think I should
switch to the kernel that Rabeeh made available as the hummingbird def may
not have included drivers required.
On Mon, Dec 30, 2013
After a few false starts:
- Putting the microsd card upside down does not work.
- The microusb console connector is really intermittent (does not seat
well with my connector body).
- My hdmi to vga adapter causes the monitor to jitter
I was not able to get the stock u-boot that Rabeeh
In order to change from a appliance machine to a gateway machine, the
playbook and ansible will need to rewrite the iptables, and get the ports
right so that dansguardian properly filters content that comes from the
internet.
I doubt very much that all this would work, without running "./runansibl
Tim,
I found rootfs at
http://scotland.proximity.on.ca/arm-nightlies/vault/f18/Images/armhfp/Fedora-18-armhfp-rootfs.tar.xz
On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 11:18 AM, George Hunt wrote:
> Thanks for the pointers. I did not know about uEnv.txt which I found at:
>
>
> http://processors
Thanks for the pointers. I did not know about uEnv.txt which I found at:
http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/AM335x_U-Boot_User's_Guide#Setting_U-Boot_environment_using_uEnv.txt
On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 10:45 AM, Jon Nettleton wrote:
> George,
>
> Start out running the u-boot and kernel tha
, Dec 22, 2013 at 11:07 PM, George Hunt wrote:
>
> On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 4:09 AM, Jon Nettleton wrote:
>
>> I am working on that kernel a bit today so can whip up some images.
>> uboot needs to be dd'd onto the microsdhc card. I will point you to the
>> wiki and my
e arriving soon. Is there anything that I can
start playing with? What is the status of your work?
George
>
> On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 2:23 AM, George Hunt wrote:
>
>> I've used xzimages, and zimages, on trimslice, and it was easy enough.
>> Is uboot already on the board? Occasi
it on full blast).
>> Otherwise, fans sound like jet planes taking off and everything gets really
>> hot and stressed.
>>
>> Anyway, heat related failure would be one of my main concerns in Haiti.
>>
>> Anna
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 4:58 PM
Hi all,
The Haiti deployment we are preparing for, made $400 available for a
server, and power is available. What hardware has been the question. Tony
had lots of experience with Atom processors, and suggested nettop boxes. My
research has led me to the following:
$193 Zortec celeron processor
h
Hi James,
Can you send me a link to the hardware that is being used in Nepal? What
I'm currently looking at is
http://www.amazon.com/ZOTAC-Intel-Barebone-Mini-PC-ZBOX-ID41-U/dp/B004WO8O9Y/ref=zg_bs_3015426011_3
.
I thought 4 GB memory and a 1 TB drive might be needed. But we have about
$400 bud
Adam Holt is planning for an XSCE schoolserver deployment in Haiti in
January, and in this instance there's plenty of power, and my favorite
trimslice ARM may be under powered for the number of clients he is
contemplating.
The on-the-ground experience is not good with the trimslice that we
install
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:
I also disagree with the implication that the tablet is any more
proprietary than the laptop. The mix of intellectual property is
certainly different, but the opportu
Adam, and I, talked for hours, primarily about the Malaysia summit, and
also a little about the hosting issue nicely explored in this thread.
Thanks everyone.
What sticks in my mind is the idea that wiki.laptop.org is really strategic
for Miami, as long as they are in the business of selling XO's
regular discontinuation of products, and
>SourceForge's apparent decline in favor of GitHub.
>
>It therefore may be prudent not to rely on any single host to be able
> to provide a role for XSCE, and take an approach similar to Sugar Labs'
>dual primary site
be bridge
funding, I'd be glad to spearhead taking up a collection among the people
that follow these things.
George
On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 4:06 PM, David Farning wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 7:13 AM, George Hunt
> wrote:
> > This is a more related to Samuel Greenfeld&
This is a more related to Samuel Greenfeld's comments than the XSCE
documentation/install thread from which I branch.
I think it makes sense to grab off of laptop.org all the essential stuff
and put it some new place. We don't know the future, but in the present the
prospect of ongoing support and
Tim -- regarding httpd-xs.conf
My memory is that the issue httpd-xs.conf was really trying to address was
to set the memory limits, based upon the mount of total memory available --
getting squid, ejabberd, httpd, to share the available memory in an
equitable fashion. This seems more like a conf.d
> On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 7:00 PM, David Farning <
> dfarn...@activitycentral.com> wrote:
>
>> sani,
>>
>> What would you recommend?
>>
>> On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 7:43 AM, George Hunt
>> wrote:
>> > Jon,
>> >
>> > I
Jon,
I'm beginning to want to do something with the solidrun proto. It looks
like I can use the fedora 18 image at
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Cubie_Board, and drop in a kernel that works
with the new board. Is that the case? Is there a kernel that I should be
using?
Or what do you suggest?
I've been perplexed as to why the documentation about listing ansible facts
seemed to fail.
ie "ansible localhost -m setup --connection=local" returns "no hosts found"
What I discovered is that /etc/ansible/hosts file needs to be initialized
with:
[localhost]
127.0.0.1
Then the facts listing re
I'm wanting to do the following:
- Get rid of the autologon to root at console tty.
- Add a non privileged user (not a sudoer, not wheel), as we had
pre-ansible, (user:admin,pw:12admin), so that the sshd config of
"permitrootlogon no" can remain in place.
- enable password authentic
Hi xsce team,
I've been having fun working on little things that were not replicated by
ansible playbooks. I started generating pull requests so everyone could
see what I'm working on, even though I'm leaving for a week in Baja, and
the work is not really complete
But our new workflow really re
Thank you. I'll spend some time studying it and try to write up some
documentation, and use cases.
On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 5:07 AM, Miguel González <
migonzal...@activitycentral.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 4:54 AM, George Hunt wrote:
>
>> I heard th
I heard that someone at activitycentral was extending, augmenting the
authentication used by Moodle, so that other web based services can climb
on.
Can someone point me to the code?
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Santi,
In the demo last week, I think you said that you had used gstreamer to
generate screencasts, and that icecast might be used at the school server
end to distribute them, (there was some discussion whether icecast could do
multicast).
Can you give me a script, or at least more informtion abo
I recently pushed an xs profile to github that will start fine tuning the
working environment on the XSCE Now I'm thinking that I should add and
collect some functions and aliases which make working with ansible
playbooks and github, easier, and require fewer keystrokes.
So far I've thought of:
ru
Curt,
Checking the facts: You have a laptop, (what make and model), which has a
ethernet port, and a wifi adapter builtin. You want the wifi to act as AP.
If this is so, it's very similar to the situation we have with the
trimslice. One issue is that the wifi chipset needs to be able to go into
ork on master (PR's and all).
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 12:15 PM, George Hunt wrote:
>
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> After a small amount of head scratching (3hrs):
>>
>> https://github.com/XSCE
>>
>> is set up, with history from both
Hi folks,
After a small amount of head scratching (3hrs):
https://github.com/XSCE
is set up, with history from both projects, as a base for all to
contribute to.
Thank you Jerry
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After some discussion at the sprint, I looked for documentation of the
workflow as I understand it:
https://www.atlassian.com/git/workflows#!workflow-forking
I found it helpful
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I like github, based upon my limited experience, because of its
browsability. There will be new workflows that need to be established, but
I'm willing for it.
My sense of it is that this becoming a activitycentral project, which is ok
with me. I'm glad when people start putting a shoulder to the w
the case of the XS-0.7, the assumptions are that the deployment has
>> limited or no access to the internet, that it has a school server with
>> large disk capacity, the server can support a local wifi network, the
>> server can operate without system administration (essenti
On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 9:47 PM, David Farning wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> I would like to offer some reflections after the last couple of weeks.
>
> I stepped aside because I felt I was hindering the project more than
> helping it. I spent years being frustrated by Langoff's hold on
> OLPC-XS. Then af
There's a political reason for the size of the repo.
In my discussions with Daniel Drake at the last SF summit, we discussed the
relationship between the work of XSCE and his finished 0.7 school server.
The XSCE repo started from a clone of 0.7, which itself appears to trace
back all the way to t
it.
2. Modify all of the url routes in urls.py
> (r'^tags/(?P.+)/$', 'pathagar.books.views.by_tag',
would become
> (r'^books/tags/(?P.+)/$', 'pathagar.books.views.by_tag',
This is probably your best bet given your time constraints.
--Seth
I'm in Haiti, with limited internet access. Adam reports that the reboot
at Silar's orphanage is stalling, and when he hits escape, we sees a red
star traveling left and right, and an error message, which talks about a
"stop script".
I am using rc.local to start up "wvdial" , which in turn stimu
Hi Anish,
I look forward to playing with the XSCE installed via Ansible.
Will there be an install procedure, and cookbook, to try it out?
George
On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 11:37 PM, Anish Mangal wrote:
> Well, I was sort of hoping:
>
>
> * We could start to have discussions and work around
t did the bus voltage do during these events?
>
> A HD would probably decide not to spin up if the bus voltage was out
> of spec.
>
> On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 02:00:31PM -0400, George Hunt wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Following James' suggestion, I put my fluke 18
Hi all,
Following James' suggestion, I put my fluke 186 multimeter in current mode
on the USB cable between the power source and the WD hard disk. I was able
to capture a 1A current spike, and a ~ 3 second current transient of about
800mA during spin up. The idling current for the hard disk, whi
On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 6:49 PM, James Cameron wrote:
>
> Rather, I guess that our dracut-modules-olpc package simply hasn't got
> scripted support for swinging the kernel over to a root filesystem on
> the SD card on XO-1.
>
> http://dev.laptop.org/git/users/dsd/dracut-modules-olpc/
>
>
> http:/
Thanks everybody for your responses.
I learned a lot yesterday by trying things you all suggested. James' idea
of using a XO1.5, and to populate an SD card
was quick, and booted on a 1.5. I tried copying the /boot directory of a
XO1 to this SD, and it appeared that the signed kernel was recogni
Hi Jerry, et al,
The motherboard flash on an XO1 is 1GB. The kernel, rootfs, provided by
OLPC Boston for the XO1 occupies 745MB. The server software (XSCE) we have
been adding on top of the OS occupies about 1.3GB. So obviously an
additional SD card is required.
My first approach has been to sta
Hi Tony,
When you sent me your ds-backup script to migrate student datastore to the
server based upon the "favorite" star in the journal, I downloaded the olpc
repo, and added your version as a branch, and uploaded it to
https://github.com/georgejhunt/ds-backup/blob/ds_on_xs/client/ds-backup.py.
T
Today, we are focusing on integration of Internet In a Box, the rpm's, and
the 600GB of external hard drive data and hardened up objectives for the
rest of the week.
We discussed French/Creole/Spanish translation of IIAB GUI? Braddock will
try to send the English phrases (several hundred) to Hol
Thank you Tony for you perspective. So can we begin to look at
implementation details?
Perhaps discussions about how to implement new features belong on
server-devel rather than support gang. My apologies if so. But if XSCE
begins to offer features that are really used and needed in the classroom
The central openvpn server would be configured to pass out local
(unroutable in the wider internet) addresses in the 10.0.0.0/8 subnet to
each client.
There would be one public/private key pair distributed with the XSCE
software distribution, for testing. The server would be configured to
accept m
David,
It sounds like moodle (a php application running under the httpd server,
which is itself running as the user "apache") does not have read permission
on the files you would like to serve. I checked my instance of XSCE. My
/library folder has root:root user and group with read and execute
pe
I have a number of 2.5 SATA drives, that I've used for I don't know how
long.
I put one in a startech.com external hard drive encosure model sat2510u2E.
I wrote a little cron stimulated script to write, and check for file
existence, and almost immediately got failures. I was using a USB hub
(plug
Hi everyone,
The last 0.3 release of XSCE included openvpn, but we didn't offer much
help in configuring or explaining how it might be useful. I'm trying to
correct that for the next 0.4 release. The documentation, and the code
itself, is in a very early stage. Release of 0.4 is a couple of month
Thanks James. I always learn a lot from your communications.
On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 7:34 PM, James Cameron wrote:
> G'day George,
>
> On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 12:27:08PM -0400, George Hunt wrote:
> > I followed the suggestions at
> http://wiki.laptop.org/
Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 12:27 PM, George Hunt wrote:
> I followed the suggestions at
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Release_notes/10.1.0#External_SD --
> substituting 31035o1.zd for the earlier OS64.
>
> devalias fsdisk /sd/disk@1:0
> fs-update u:\os64.zd
>
> after the reboot, t
read from the command line as olpc and as root. So I
believe that indicates that 64GB drives do work on the XO-1.5.
George
On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 10:55 PM, James Cameron wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 09:20:20PM -0400, George Hunt wrote:
> > I ordered a 64GB SD, and have it in hand. I
>
> For these reasons the XSCE on a bootable external memory card is the best
> strategy. As long as (a) we can use a 64GB card to include our content
> storage and (b) that it will boot on any XO-1.5 2GB machine without any
> preparation.****
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