Re: [Server-devel] [support-gang] [UKids] Volunteers are tracking COVID-19 more informatively than the US Govt CDC (for now)

2020-03-18 Thread Sameer Verma
There's a Google Docs doc at https://coronavirustechhandbook.com/ and a Facebook site with lots of info...fast-moving, with an ok signal-to-noise ratio, but useful. https://www.facebook.com/groups/221979475862484/ There's also https://nextstrain.org/ncov that's mapping the genomic epidemiology of

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] 1TB microSD

2019-03-03 Thread Sameer Verma
arge IIAB content collections > > On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 10:32 PM Sameer Verma wrote: > >> Looks like 1 terrabyte microSD cards are coming. >> >> >> https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2019/2/25/18239433/1tb-micr

[Server-devel] 1TB microSD

2019-02-25 Thread Sameer Verma
Looks like 1 terrabyte microSD cards are coming. https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2019/2/25/18239433/1tb-microsd-card-sandisk-micron-price-release Sameer ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo

[Server-devel] Provisioning services

2018-04-29 Thread Sameer Verma
cleaner solution. Ideas? Comments? Please let us know. Andi Gros, Aaron Borden and myself are working on this currently. cheers, Sameer -- Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Professor, Information Systems San Francisco State University http://verma.sfsu.edu/ ___ Ser

[Server-devel] Fwd: Community Summit 2018

2018-03-15 Thread Sameer Verma
FYI -- Forwarded message -- From: Sameer Verma Date: Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 11:36 AM Subject: Community Summit 2018 To: OLPC SF , iaep , "olpc-o...@lists.laptop.org" , "grassro...@lists.laptop.org" Remember our Community Summit? We didn't host one la

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] Video: Internet-in-a-Box in the Dominican Republic

2017-05-22 Thread Sameer Verma
's own annual community > powwow in Montreal (https://wikimania2017.wikimedia.org) co-located right in > the same city with DebConf17 (https://debconf17.debconf.org). Thanks in > advance to open-access librarians / factivist developers all for getting in > touch towards joinin

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] auditing our "IIAB/XSCE 6.2 Networking" overview

2017-02-23 Thread Sameer Verma
; >>https://github.com/XSCE/xsce/wiki/IIAB-Networking >> >> With this new reference alongside, thanks to George: >> >>https://github.com/XSCE/xsce/wiki/IIAB-Architecture (might later be >> renamed!?) >> > > > > -- > Anish >

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] Proposal | SIP VoIP server on XSCE

2016-10-15 Thread Sameer Verma
apps on different clients? For >> SIP, there are usually many client options available on various platforms. >> >> On Fri, Oct 14, 2016 at 9:22 PM, Sameer Verma wrote: >>> >>> What server/service are you using? Look at IAX2 as well. Usually IAX2 >>>

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] Proposal | SIP VoIP server on XSCE

2016-10-14 Thread Sameer Verma
What server/service are you using? Look at IAX2 as well. Usually IAX2 does better on networks because unlike SIP, session initiation and voice call happen on the same port. Sameer On Oct 14, 2016 4:48 AM, "Anish Mangal" wrote: > Hi, > > A SIP server on the XSCE will allow for VOIP services (aud

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] [Off Topic] More Linux users facing skype issues

2016-04-01 Thread Sameer Verma
Ring had a lot of active development. I've been using it since back when it was called SFLPhone. Sameer On Apr 1, 2016 6:25 PM, "Anish Mangal" wrote: > Unfortunately, Antox - The Tox client for Android is quite buggy, and > AFAIK, doesn't support audio/video calling. > > On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 1

Re: [Server-devel] ext2 vs ext4 vs exFAT for XO content SD cards?

2015-08-16 Thread Sameer Verma
James, Would it help to mark the content partition(s) as read only? Sameer On Aug 16, 2015 5:13 PM, "James Cameron" wrote: > Thanks, interesting questions. > > No, ext4 is not a slow journaled filesystem, and no, there are no > obvious problems on SD when using ext4 given your use case. But it

Re: [Server-devel] [IAEP] Intel's attempt at an offline server

2015-01-26 Thread Sameer Verma
ing management systems) but > overall this looks like an interesting effort. Oh, and I really do like the > inclusion of a (supposedly) 5 hour battery as this will come in really > handy in places such as Nepal, rural Peru, etc. > > Just my 2 eurocents, > Christoph > > On Fri, Jan

[Server-devel] Intel's attempt at an offline server

2015-01-25 Thread Sameer Verma
http://linuxgizmos.com/intel-spins-ubuntu-based-education-access-point/ cheers, Sameer -- Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Professor, Information Systems San Francisco State University http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://commons.sfsu.edu/ http://olpcsf.org/ http://olpcjamaica.org.jm

[Server-devel] Lantern: One Device, Free Data From Space Forever | Indiegogo

2014-11-12 Thread Sameer Verma
Via Bruce Baikie. https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/lantern-one-device-free-data-from-space-forever ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] copyright and licensing

2014-11-02 Thread Sameer Verma
. So, if you get code under a specific license, you have no choice but to use it. You cannot change it. The IP holder however may change licenses or use multiple ones, including non-FOSS licenses. cheers, Sameer -- Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Professor, Information Systems San Francisco State Unive

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] CentOS 7.0 Released, 3 years after CentOS 6.0

2014-07-20 Thread Sameer Verma
On Jul 20, 2014 11:57 AM, "Anish Mangal" wrote: > > When I had checked the release notes a few days ago, there wasn't any ARM support, at least officially. > Keeping that constraint in mind, it may still be worthwhile to try out the build process on CentOS 7. I didn't get much success on CentOS 6

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] xovis on the XSCE 5.0

2014-07-09 Thread Sameer Verma
On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 7:45 AM, Martin Dluhos wrote: > On 06/24/2014 07:47 PM, Sameer Verma wrote: >> So, here are some observations: > > Thanks for the feedback, Sameer! Tim already addressed many of the things you > point out in the latest xovis pull request, which has been

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] sugarstats and xovis

2014-07-09 Thread Sameer Verma
On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 2:26 AM, Martin Dluhos wrote: > On 06/27/2014 02:10 PM, Martin Abente wrote: >> Hello Martin! >> >> Do you have documentation on how XOvis pipeline works? I would like to see >> how >> it works after the data is store and the visualization is generated. > > > Here is a simp

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] activation server feature XSCE 5.0

2014-07-04 Thread Sameer Verma
On Jul 4, 2014 3:31 PM, "James Cameron" wrote: > > I haven't heard of any XSCE deployments that wish to use the OLPC > security system at the same time, so you are probably the first to > try. > > I think the next step in diagnosis will be to find out what the XO > does during the activation step,

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] pathagar

2014-07-01 Thread Sameer Verma
My guess would be wrong system time. Sameer On Jul 1, 2014 2:42 PM, "James Cameron" wrote: > Try another tool to get more detail on the SSL handshake failure. > > Check the system time. An SSL handshake also fails if the system time > is very wrong, depending on the remote certificate. > > -- >

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] pathagar

2014-07-01 Thread Sameer Verma
On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 2:19 PM, Tim Moody wrote: > I now see a failure as below every time I runansible, even on a fast machine > and fast network. > > TASK: [pathagar | Install pathagar requirements in a virtualenv] > ** > changed: [127.0.0.1] => (item=Django==1.4.5) > changed: [127.

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] xovis on the XSCE 5.0

2014-06-24 Thread Sameer Verma
On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 3:38 AM, Martin Dluhos wrote: > On 06/17/2014 08:49 PM, Sameer Verma wrote: >> On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 1:11 AM, Martin Dluhos wrote: >>> When installing with install_xovis.sh script, the script will output the >>> command >>> th

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] sugarstats and xovis

2014-06-24 Thread Sameer Verma
On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 9:32 PM, Martin Abente wrote: > > > > On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 9:43 PM, Sameer Verma wrote: >> >> On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 6:12 PM, Walter Bender >> wrote: >> > >> > >> > On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 6:33 PM, Sameer Verma

[Server-devel] XOVis posts

2014-06-23 Thread Sameer Verma
Two blog posts are up for XOVis. These should do a good job as an intro to XOVis. http://blog.olenepal.org/index.php/archives/902 http://www.olpcsf.org/node/208 cheers, Sameer -- Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Professor, Information Systems San Francisco State University http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] sugarstats and xovis

2014-06-22 Thread Sameer Verma
On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 6:12 PM, Walter Bender wrote: > > > On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 6:33 PM, Sameer Verma wrote: >> >> On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 7:41 AM, Tim Moody wrote: >> > does xovis supersede sugarstats? >> >> >> From what I understand, sugar-s

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] sugarstats and xovis

2014-06-22 Thread Sameer Verma
s from Bhagmalpur, India, but we haven't done much with it as yet. I understand that AU may have a boatload of sugar-stats data as well, but not sure if they got around to doing anything with it. cheers, Sameer -- Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Professor, Information Systems San Francisco State Univ

Re: [Server-devel] Recommended base for XSCE 5.

2014-06-19 Thread Sameer Verma
On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 11:39 AM, Adam Holt wrote: > On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 2:29 PM, Richard Smith wrote: >> >> The docs I've looked at so far aren't clear on the OS base for XSCE 5. >> >> Does it need F20 or will it work on F18? > > > Fedora 18 support is solid. Fedora 20 support's coming but

Re: [Server-devel] Recommended base for XSCE 5.

2014-06-19 Thread Sameer Verma
On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 11:29 AM, Richard Smith wrote: > The docs I've looked at so far aren't clear on the OS base for XSCE 5. > > Does it need F20 or will it work on F18? > > -- > Richard A. Smith > ___ > Server-devel mailing list > Server-devel@lists.

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] xovis on the XSCE 5.0

2014-06-17 Thread Sameer Verma
On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 1:11 AM, Martin Dluhos wrote: > On 06/16/2014 05:41 AM, Sameer Verma wrote: >> On Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 3:58 AM, Martin Dluhos wrote: >>> On 06/15/2014 02:41 AM, Sameer Verma wrote: >>>> Hi Martin, >>>> >>>> I installed

Re: [Server-devel] xovis on the XSCE 5.0

2014-06-14 Thread Sameer Verma
Forgot to cc Martin Dluhos. On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 5:41 PM, Sameer Verma wrote: > Hi Martin, > > I installed xovis on the XSCE 5.0 running on a XO 1.75 (512MB RAM, > consuming 405MB or so right now). I've successfully registered a few > XOs with the server. I see the backu

[Server-devel] xovis on the XSCE 5.0

2014-06-14 Thread Sameer Verma
cron? If not, how do I push the metadats into couchdb? cheers, Sameer -- Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Professor, Information Systems San Francisco State University http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://commons.sfsu.edu/ http://olpcsf.org/ http://olpcjamaica.org.jm/ ___ S

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] wvdial

2014-06-08 Thread Sameer Verma
On Jun 8, 2014 3:27 PM, "James Cameron" wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 07, 2014 at 10:42:25AM -0700, Sameer Verma wrote: > > Anybody have on the ground experience with wvdial to run a USB modem > > directly from the school server? > > No on the ground experience with

Re: [Server-devel] pathagar admin pass

2014-06-07 Thread Sameer Verma
That works. Will let Anish know. Sameer On Jun 7, 2014 10:49 AM, "Miguel González Álvarez" wrote: > Did you try `revreskoob` (bookserver reversed)? > > https://github.com/XSCE/xsce/blob/master/docs/CONFIG.rst#pathagar > > On Sat, Jun 7, 2014 at 7:41 PM, Sameer Verm

[Server-devel] wvdial

2014-06-07 Thread Sameer Verma
Anybody have on the ground experience with wvdial to run a USB modem directly from the school server? Does XSCE 0.5 have anything built-in? cheers, Sameer -- Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Professor, Information Systems San Francisco State University http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://commons.sfsu.edu/ http

[Server-devel] pathagar admin pass

2014-06-07 Thread Sameer Verma
long string, but I suspect that isn't the password. cheers, Sameer -- Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Professor, Information Systems San Francisco State University http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://commons.sfsu.edu/ http://olpcsf.org/ http://olpcjamaica.org.jm/

[Server-devel] ansible install on a 1.75 with low RAM

2014-06-05 Thread Sameer Verma
-tags="squid" Installing services like this, with one playbook at a time works. After all the playbooks, I ran ./runansible again and it ran through completely. Putting this out there in case someone else gets stuck. cheers, Sameer -- Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Professor, Information Systems San

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] Re: [IIAB] getting the archive

2014-06-01 Thread Sameer Verma
On Sun, Jun 1, 2014 at 2:40 PM, Braddock wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 05/31/2014 09:42 PM, Sameer Verma wrote: >> Looking to see what the quickest and easiest way is, of getting a >> copy of the full archive of IIAB. Thoughts? Ideas? Poi

[Server-devel] getting the archive

2014-05-31 Thread Sameer Verma
Looking to see what the quickest and easiest way is, of getting a copy of the full archive of IIAB. Thoughts? Ideas? Pointers? cheers, Sameer -- Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Professor, Information Systems San Francisco State University http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://commons.sfsu.edu/ http://olpcsf.org

Re: [Server-devel] [UKids] Re: [XSCE] Re: Nepal Focus: Thursday's XS(CE) 10AM NYC Time weekly call

2014-03-13 Thread Sameer Verma
Hope you all got a chance to talk about Martin Dluhos' visualization project. Andi Gros and I have been working with him for a few weeks now, and it is near completion. I have a test image running on a couple of machines. Still a few tweaks, but very promising. Matrin D. should be doing an update f

[Server-devel] Rugged mini-PC runs Linux on quad-core G-Series SoC · LinuxGizmos.com

2014-02-27 Thread Sameer Verma
One more mini PC to possibly run a server. http://linuxgizmos.com/rugged-mini-pc-runs-linux-on-quad-core-amd-g-series/ Sameer ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] [ANNOUNCE] Release 5.0 of XSCE

2014-01-22 Thread Sameer Verma
On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 6:30 PM, Tim Moody wrote: > This is a slightly belated announcement of the release of the XSCE School > Server version 5.0. The full release notes are included below. Those who > have been following the project will notice the order of magnitude jump in > release numbers,

Re: [Server-devel] [Sugar-devel] The quest for data

2014-01-12 Thread Sameer Verma
On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 3:02 PM, Walter Bender wrote: > On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 3:32 PM, Sameer Verma wrote: >> On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 6:33 AM, Walter Bender >> wrote: >>> On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 3:37 PM, Sameer Verma wrote: >>>> On Fri, Jan 10, 2

Re: [Server-devel] [Sugar-devel] The quest for data

2014-01-06 Thread Sameer Verma
On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 12:04 PM, Sameer Verma wrote: > On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 12:28 AM, Martin Dluhos wrote: >> On 3.1.2014 04:09, Sameer Verma wrote: >>> Happy new year! May 2014 bring good deeds and cheer :-) >>> >>> Here's a blog post on the diff

Re: [Server-devel] [Sugar-devel] The quest for data

2014-01-03 Thread Sameer Verma
On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 2:23 PM, James Cameron wrote: > Metrics can direct action. > > Unfortunately, in the absence of meaningful metrics, the meaningless > metrics will also direct action. > True. In fact, the reliability of the whole thing is dependent on the reliability of the generated data.

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] Re: a kernel for our solidrun protos?

2014-01-03 Thread Sameer Verma
On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 3:47 PM, George Hunt wrote: > On our skype call Thursday, Jon suggested using the XO4 config file as a > base for getting all the needed kernel capability. And James suggested > looking at the upstream kernel conf. In any case I'll need to understand, > and merge in, whatev

Re: [Server-devel] [Sugar-devel] The quest for data

2014-01-03 Thread Sameer Verma
On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 4:15 AM, Martin Abente wrote: > Hello Sameer, > > I totally agree we should join efforts for a visualization solution, but, > personally, my main concern is still a basic one: what are the important > questions we should be asking? And how can we answer these questions > re

[Server-devel] The quest for data

2014-01-02 Thread Sameer Verma
Happy new year! May 2014 bring good deeds and cheer :-) Here's a blog post on the different approaches (that I know of) to data gathering across different projects. Do let me know if I missed anything. cheers, Sameer http://www.olpcsf.org/node/204 ___

Re: [Server-devel] XS 0.7 on a new Gigabyte Brix i3-4010u

2013-12-28 Thread Sameer Verma
I used unetbootin to create the USB stick from the iso. Once CentOS is installed, add the repos. Sameer On Dec 28, 2013 9:30 PM, "Adam Gordon" wrote: > Using the iso. I'll try with centos 6.x is there a guide for that, can I > use the same Kickstarter file > On Dec 29

Re: [Server-devel] XS 0.7 on a new Gigabyte Brix i3-4010u

2013-12-28 Thread Sameer Verma
Are you using the XS 0.7 iso? I've had better luck with installing CentOS 6.x and then adding the repos. Also, IIRC theft deterrence works on the 32 bit, but not the 64 bit version. Daniel Drake or Reuben Caron will know more. cheers, Sameer On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 6:13 PM, Adam Gordon wrote:

Re: [Server-devel] Install python applications in a virtualenv without, system wide packages using wheel binary package format

2013-12-21 Thread Sameer Verma
On Dec 16, 2013 9:17 PM, "Samuel Greenfeld" wrote: > > 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

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] Install python applications in a virtualenv without system wide packages using wheel binary package format

2013-12-17 Thread Sameer Verma
cc'ing pathagar list. Sameer On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 8:17 AM, Miguel González wrote: > I want to share with you my proposed approach to install Python web > application in XSCE. > > > The idea is to install them into a Python virtual environment isolated > from the system wide packages installed

Re: [Server-devel] Favorite School Server hardware?

2013-12-06 Thread Sameer Verma
ers might give you an idea. Note that the network segment that was used for these tests was not over WiFi. Instead the loading machine and the XS were connected over a crossover CAT5 cable. There's also no intervening effect of XMPP conversations. cheers, Sameer -- Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Pro

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] End User Documentation / Basic Setup Guide / How to upload PDFs etc

2013-11-17 Thread Sameer Verma
ystems. Any advice on which method is >> best? >> >> I've looked around the Wiki but I can't find anything like a basic setup >> guide (such as a reference that could be used by teachers, students, >> and/or volunteers in the field.) Is there such a guide?

Re: [Server-devel] A couple of suggestions for making sure this week's XSCE sprint goes smoothly.

2013-10-21 Thread Sameer Verma
On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 9:52 AM, David Farning wrote: > 1. In a session like this, it can become easy to complain about what > others are doing. (or not doing) Complaining is contagious. Le't use > the complaint bowel. Any time someone complains about someone else is > doing wrong they need to put

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE]

2013-10-12 Thread Sameer Verma
On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 9:58 AM, George Hunt wrote: > Hi Tony, > > I'd add to Tim's comments: > > Sridhar, early in the XSCE design, made a distinction between project, and > product, which I find useful -See- > https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dnhU2F6EntepVXTgN8QpkME8fZVUuPjcCoMUfAVKbcc/edit

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] School Server Special Interest Group at OLPC-SF

2013-09-07 Thread Sameer Verma
On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 6:23 PM, David Farning wrote: > On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 10:06 AM, Sameer Verma wrote: > > > > > > > > On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 9:26 PM, David Farning < > dfarn...@activitycentral.com> > > wrote: > >> > >> Great, &

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] School Server Special Interest Group at OLPC-SF

2013-09-07 Thread Sameer Verma
h and merge proposals. Our approach is to accommodate as many proposals as possible, and merge similar ones into common sessions. We are not doing panel discussion this year, so that should open up more sessions. Submit away! Sameer -- Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Professor, Information Systems San Francisco

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] Some queries regarding PATHAGAR workflows

2013-09-06 Thread Sameer Verma
is more like a curator, or a maintainer who can tag, untag, clean up descriptions, etc. > Looking forward to some pointers :) > > If you are using the VM (See http://www.olpcsf.org/pathagar) you can log into the interface using login bsadmin and password bs::admin (#9 on that page).

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

2013-08-20 Thread Sameer Verma
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 9:59 AM, Samuel Greenfeld wrote: > 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. I usually hit F2 to see when it slows down or hangs (like when it

[Server-devel] Peering into Journal Data

2013-08-12 Thread Sameer Verma
v3 on GitHub. Use it, fork it, improve it and reshare it. This is similar to what Walter wrote for TurtleArt parsing and such. http://git.sugarlabs.org/ds-analysis-scripts cheers, Sameer -- Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Professor, Information Systems San Francisco State University http://verma.sfsu.edu/

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] Root fs on XO1

2013-08-09 Thread Sameer Verma
On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 2:53 AM, George Hunt wrote: > 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 addit

Re: [Server-devel] XS to become XSCE???

2013-08-06 Thread Sameer Verma
On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 6:06 AM, David Farning wrote: > On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 12:13 AM, Sameer Verma wrote: >> Just noticed that on >> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_Installing_Software_0.7 it says that >> stable version is XS 0.7 and unstable is XSCE 0.3 >> >>

Re: [Server-devel] XS to become XSCE???

2013-08-05 Thread Sameer Verma
On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 1:16 AM, James Cameron wrote: > On Sun, Aug 04, 2013 at 10:13:25PM -0700, Sameer Verma wrote: >> Just noticed that on >> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_Installing_Software_0.7 it says that >> stable version is XS 0.7 and unstable is XSCE 0.3 >> &

[Server-devel] XS to become XSCE???

2013-08-04 Thread Sameer Verma
Just noticed that on http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_Installing_Software_0.7 it says that stable version is XS 0.7 and unstable is XSCE 0.3 Is this correct? Is XSCE to become XS 0.8? I am all in favor of the two projects merging, but as I understand it, XS and XSCE are two very *different* projects

Re: [Server-devel] Server-devel Digest, Vol 75, Issue 25

2013-08-01 Thread Sameer Verma
over 60 seconds) before it started to fail. I suspect a XO-1 running Pathagar will outperform a XO-1 running Moodle. cheers, Sameer > Tony > > > > On 07/29/2013 07:56 PM, Sameer Verma wrote: >> >> On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 11:56 AM, Tony Anderson wrote: >>> >

Re: [Server-devel] Server-devel Digest, Vol 75, Issue 25

2013-07-29 Thread Sameer Verma
On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 11:56 AM, Tony Anderson wrote: > Hi, > > The XS-0.7 release of the school server software is built with CentOS 6.2. > The main problem is that CentOS does not support the ARM isa. > XSCE, as I understand it, arose to fill an urgent need to implement the > school server on A

Re: [Server-devel] [support-gang] XSCE Sprint

2013-07-09 Thread Sameer Verma
On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 9:53 AM, Gonzalo Odiard wrote: > >>> 1 - An effective way to organize the digital library so that kids are >>> attracted to find items they would like to download. >> >> >> We hope that we can evolve, and incorporate Pathagar for this in the short >> term. I've asked if the

Re: [Server-devel] [support-gang] Value of remote access to School Servers.

2013-07-03 Thread Sameer Verma
either party from the public network. > Correct. > Now that you have remote XSCE settled, have you considered remote XO > access for hardware diagnosis and maintenance? Write up of that > feature is here: > > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Firmware/Remote > > A relay usin

[Server-devel] an anecdote from Bhagmalpur

2013-06-19 Thread Sameer Verma
ess a lot. So, eventually they pooled money, bought a liter of Diesel and showed up at my Uncle's house, asking him to run the generator, so that they could get on the Internet! What have we done! :-) cheers, Sameer -- Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Professor, Information Systems San Francisco State Unive

Re: [Server-devel] Pathagar

2013-06-05 Thread Sameer Verma
On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 1:42 AM, Tony Anderson wrote: > Hi, > > When I looked at Pathagar originally, it only worked when connected to the > internet. Has this changed? > It works on any interface, as long as you can get to it from the XO or any other laptop. The books are preloaded within Pathaga

Re: [Server-devel] A Path to Pathagar.

2013-06-04 Thread Sameer Verma
On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 2:11 PM, Braddock wrote: > I'm curious how Pathagar may be applicable to our Internet-in-a-Box > (http://internet-in-a-box.org). > > Can it scale to the 40,000 epub books in Project Gutenberg? > That's a good question. Scaling to hold the data should be ok. The current data

Re: [Server-devel] 12 Volt power system for School Servers.

2013-05-29 Thread Sameer Verma
On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 3:26 PM, James Cameron wrote: > On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 04:51:47PM -0500, David Farning wrote: >> Any thoughts on powering the AP? > > They are all different. > Yep. The one we use in Bhagmalpur (India) and in Jamaica is the Ubiquiti Picostation2 unit that runs off a PoE i

Re: [Server-devel] 12 Volt power system for School Servers.

2013-05-29 Thread Sameer Verma
On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 1:03 PM, David Farning wrote: > Tony could you share more information about your work on 12 Volt power > supplies for School Servers? > > Whenever I see a School Server setup containing a 12V Battery, an inverter, > a power strip, and a couple of 120V to 12V power supplies

[Server-devel] Use case survey for deployments

2013-05-15 Thread Sameer Verma
from this effort into a report that we'll make available on wiki.laptop.org cheers, Sameer -- Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Professor, Information Systems San Francisco State University http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://commons.sfsu.edu/ http://olpcsf.org/ http://olpcjamaica.o

Re: [Server-devel] the plan for Puppet

2013-05-01 Thread Sameer Verma
Daniel, This is immensely helpful! On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 10:44 AM, Daniel Drake wrote: > On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 11:21 AM, Sameer Verma wrote: >> I was wondering if someone on this list (Daniel, or Martin, someone >> who knows more about puppet) can speak to the de

[Server-devel] the plan for Puppet

2013-05-01 Thread Sameer Verma
d. If/how can activities be pushed to XOs seamlessly? RPM installations on the XO? Pulling logs via ds-backup? Should this be done via Puppet? Any input/feedback would be very helpful. cheers, Sameer -- Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Professor, Information Systems San Francisco State University

Re: [Server-devel] Yet another ARM board for a server

2013-04-23 Thread Sameer Verma
On Apr 22, 2013 11:46 PM, "Peter Robinson" wrote: > > > On 23 Apr 2013 01:21, "Sameer Verma" wrote: > > > > Beagleboard Black at $45 > > > > http://marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl/2013/04/22/death-to-raspberrypi-beaglebone-black-is-on-a-market/ &

[Server-devel] Yet another ARM board for a server

2013-04-22 Thread Sameer Verma
Beagleboard Black at $45 http://marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl/2013/04/22/death-to-raspberrypi-beaglebone-black-is-on-a-market/ cheers, Sameer -- Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Professor, Information Systems San Francisco State University http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://commons.sfsu.edu/ http://olpcsf.org/ http

[Server-devel] Cubieboard - linux-sunxi

2013-04-20 Thread Sameer Verma
Another ARM board, courtesy of Robert Howard. http://linux-sunxi.org/Cubieboard cheers, Sameer ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] Re: ds-backup

2013-04-17 Thread Sameer Verma
On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 5:47 AM, David Farning wrote: > This brings up the interesting issue of basing the XS-CE on a long > term release. I have trying to sit on my hands for these discussion to > see how they play out. > > I am pulled between two sides > > Stability -- Servers need to be in

Re: [Server-devel] [support-gang] My first School Server Installation

2013-03-29 Thread Sameer Verma
509&action=edit&message=6 > . > > George > > ___ > support-gang mailing list > support-g...@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/support-gang > > Looks like that link is thru a logged in wordpress URL. The direct URL is http://schoolserver.wordpress.com/

Re: [Server-devel] XSCE 0.2 - Network problems running xs-setup

2013-03-22 Thread Sameer Verma
On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 5:22 AM, Rodolfo D. Arce S. wrote: > Hello: > > I ran into a few problems when trying to install the XSCE 0.2. I > downloaded the repo and installed, during the installation process i > got this messages, but apparently everything was installed correctly. > > http://pastebi

Re: [Server-devel] Backup of XO 1.75 on XS 0.7

2013-03-10 Thread Sameer Verma
s, Sameer > > Don't wan't to go back to O.6 :=( installtion. So maybe I need try other > computer to see what is the real problem. > >>-Original Message- >>From: Sameer Verma [mailto:sve...@sfsu.edu] >>Sent: Sunday, March 10, 2013 02:39 PM

Re: [Server-devel] Backup of XO 1.75 on XS 0.7

2013-03-09 Thread Sameer Verma
jebberd is working now :=) not ds-backup.sh. Will try a few more > times once I get my energy back! > > > > >-Original Message- > >From: Sameer Verma [mailto:sve...@sfsu.edu] > >Sent: Sunday, March 10, 2013 01:20 PM > >To: tkk...@nurturingasia.com > &

Re: [Server-devel] Backup of XO 1.75 on XS 0.7

2013-03-09 Thread Sameer Verma
On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 8:40 AM, wrote: > Has anyone have a successfully done a /usr/bin/ds-backup.sh to backup the XO > 1.75 on a 0.7 XS? After hours of waiting nothing seems to have happen. My XO > are successfully registered. My ds-backup.log and datastore.log has 0 byte. > > I do not have ej

Re: [Server-devel] XSCE 0.2 on XO-1

2013-03-08 Thread Sameer Verma
On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 11:32 AM, Jerry Vonau wrote: > On Fri, 2013-03-08 at 10:52 -0800, Sameer Verma wrote: >> For what it's worth (and me not giving a rodent's behind) contrary to >> popular consensus, I ran the XSCE instructions >> (http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Use

[Server-devel] XSCE 0.2 on XO-1

2013-03-08 Thread Sameer Verma
e up more space. Why did I do it? Short answer: Because I can. Longish answer: I would like to see a common methodology of installation and provisioning of services on all platforms, irrespective of form factor or CPU arch. So far, it's promising. cheers, Sameer -- Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Prof

Re: [Server-devel] XSCE wants to become a framework for the next 10 years

2013-02-28 Thread Sameer Verma
On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 4:10 PM, George Hunt wrote: > Tony, et al, > > The group of developers, working on the XSCE, are indeed attempting to build > upon the good work that Daniel Drake did on the XS-0.7. But we are trying to > extract the essential information from the history of the school serv

Re: [Server-devel] XS 0.7 and XO 1 & 1.75 registration

2013-02-28 Thread Sameer Verma
On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 4:55 AM, wrote: > It has been sometime since I played with the XS. Have a few problems: > > 1. Registered went OK with a XO 1 and can login automatically on the Moodle > but > when try to force a manual back up with sudo /usr/bin/ds-backup.sh I get the > message: "Not Re

Re: [Server-devel] Hardware for Schoolservers (EDIT)

2013-01-23 Thread Sameer Verma
listinfo/server-devel > We use LogicSupply's SolidLogic LS-102 boxes in Jamaica. I use a FitPC-1 in Bhagmalpur, India for about 25 XOs. The FitPC2 pulls about 15W at the AC brick. The LogicSupply box pulls 25W to 26W and the FitPC-1 pulls 8W at the AC end. cheers, Sameer -- Sameer

Re: [Server-devel] Feasibility of installing XS-0.7 on different mediums

2013-01-10 Thread Sameer Verma
XS on virtualbox. http://schoolserver.wordpress.com/2012/05/01/school-server-holodeck-style/ Sameer On Jan 10, 2013 12:54 PM, "Ajay Garg" wrote: > Hi all. > > I was wanting to have the XS-0.7 set-up, and have been using > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_Techniques_and_Configuration for reference >

Re: [Server-devel] Pathagar- setting username and password?

2012-12-27 Thread Sameer Verma
n you run python manage.py syncdb it should ask you for a password setup. Try deleting database.db and repeating. Grab the VM at http://www.olpcsf.org/pathagar and pry within if it helps. cheers, Sameer -- Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Professor, Information Systems San Francisco State University http:/

[Server-devel] restoring from ds-backup

2012-12-23 Thread Sameer Verma
What's the approach to restoring a child's *entire* journal from the backup in /library/users/ on the XS as pushed by /usr/bin/ds-backup.sh on the XO? cheers, Sameer ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/list

Re: [Server-devel] Running complete Wikipedia offline

2012-12-18 Thread Sameer Verma
On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 4:36 AM, Daniel Drake wrote: > On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 9:28 PM, Sameer Verma wrote: >> I've been debating the possibility of running a *complete* copy of >> Wikipedia (txt and images) offline on the XS. At this point, the >> targets are English

Re: [Server-devel] Running complete Wikipedia offline

2012-12-15 Thread Sameer Verma
On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 1:37 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 4:28 PM, Sameer Verma wrote: >> I've been debating the possibility of running a *complete* copy of >> Wikipedia (txt and images) offline on the XS. At this point, the >>

Re: [Server-devel] Backup of schoolserver

2012-12-14 Thread Sameer Verma
On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 2:57 AM, vanessa ramos da cruz wrote: > Hi everyone! > > I am locking for a way to make a backup of my XS 0.7 machine, for safety. > I tried the Mondo rescue, that OLE Nepal uses, but i have any success with > the istallation... You are looking to do an entire backup or ju

[Server-devel] Running complete Wikipedia offline

2012-12-12 Thread Sameer Verma
ttps://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Data_dumps Has anyone thought of this or tackled it in any way? Would love some discussion. cheers, Sameer -- Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Professor, Information Systems San Francisco State University http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://commons.sfsu.edu/ http://olpcsf.org/

Re: [Server-devel] [Sugar-devel] offline a.sl.o

2012-11-30 Thread Sameer Verma
On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 2:59 AM, Martin Abente < martin.abente.lah...@gmail.com> wrote: > @sameer: What features (exactly) do you need from ASLO? > > IE, in Paraguay we just needed to provide a static repo of activities to > feed the sugar updater. And we used this > http://git.sugarlabs.org/dx-ac

[Server-devel] offline a.sl.o

2012-11-25 Thread Sameer Verma
Has anyone looked into running an offline copy of activities.sugarlabs.orgon a server that isn't on the Internet (a la XS)? cheers, Sameer -- Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Professor, Information Systems San Francisco State University http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://commons.sfsu.edu/ http://olpcsf.org/

[Server-devel] gathering use cases

2012-11-02 Thread Sameer Verma
t of the server side, but that may be limiting. What should we gather? Location, school, size, personnel, skills, electricity, Internet access, language, sugar version, ... Feedback? cheers, Sameer -- Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Professor, Information Systems San Francisco State University ht

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