Re: [Server-devel] Looking for new low power server hardware candidate

2012-04-17 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On 17 April 2012 23:39, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for your notes. On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 10:04 PM, Sridhar Dhanapalan srid...@laptop.org.au wrote: But you have some economies of scale :-) do once per school vs do it on every machine in the school. The school

Re: [Server-devel] Looking for new low power server hardware candidate

2012-04-16 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On 14 April 2012 01:37, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 12:28 AM, Sridhar Dhanapalan srid...@laptop.org.au wrote: appliance runs nothing more than ejabberd. There's no moodle, dhcp, dns or other services. How does the appliance get a domain name? IP

Re: [Server-devel] Looking for new low power server hardware candidate

2012-04-13 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 12:28 AM, Sridhar Dhanapalan srid...@laptop.org.au wrote: appliance runs nothing more than ejabberd. There's no moodle, dhcp, dns or other services. How does the appliance get a domain name? Then the children just set a collaboration server to connect to in the

Re: [Server-devel] Looking for new low power server hardware candidate

2012-04-12 Thread Peter Robinson
On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 4:58 PM, rihowa...@gmail.com rihowa...@gmail.com wrote: On Apr 10, 2012, at 5:04 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote: On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 2:03 AM, George Hunt georgejh...@gmail.com wrote: I left my fitpc2 and msi servers in the Philippines, hoping they would be pressed into

Re: [Server-devel] Looking for new low power server hardware candidate

2012-04-12 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 5:24 AM, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: think the Trimslice H is going to one of the best models as you can put a decent HDD in there and have a self contained unit, although I would love a dual eth option. It has a HDD bay! Yay! Wanna! m --  

Re: [Server-devel] Looking for new low power server hardware candidate

2012-04-12 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On 12 April 2012 15:27, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 11:57 PM, Sridhar Dhanapalan srid...@laptop.org.au wrote: Why is it such a bad idea? The thought was to do away with registration, moodle and other unnecessary services and focus only on the XMPP

Re: [Server-devel] Looking for new low power server hardware candidate

2012-04-11 Thread George Hunt
When I took the picture in the following url, I was focusing on what it would take to run off of 12V deep cycle battery: http://schoolserver.wordpress.com/xs-installation/xs-0-7-running-on-xo-1-5/ I'm concerned with packaging, and physical robustness in a real school setting. Maybe we could

Re: [Server-devel] Looking for new low power server hardware candidate

2012-04-11 Thread James Cameron
G'day George, The trouble with a full mechanical engineering treatment of this is that there's no telling what size each of the parts will be. For something similar I used a kitchen vegetable rack. This is a plastic shelf, with feet, with a square grid pattern. It is often used for potatos and

Re: [Server-devel] Looking for new low power server hardware candidate

2012-04-11 Thread Abhishek Singh
On 04/11/2012 04:52 PM, James Cameron wrote: G'day George, The trouble with a full mechanical engineering treatment of this is that there's no telling what size each of the parts will be. For something similar I used a kitchen vegetable rack. This is a plastic shelf, with feet, with a

Re: [Server-devel] Looking for new low power server hardware candidate

2012-04-11 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 10:55 PM, John Watlington w...@laptop.org wrote: Why not an XO-1.75 ? Good point. And XO + AP + HDD would work fantastic. George, how many users per server? If 100, an XO-1.75 will do ok. Want to sign up for the Contributors Programme (search in the wiki for the URL).

Re: [Server-devel] Looking for new low power server hardware candidate

2012-04-11 Thread Peter Robinson
On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 1:53 PM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 10:55 PM, John Watlington w...@laptop.org wrote: Why not an XO-1.75 ? Good point. And XO + AP + HDD would work fantastic. George, how many users per server? If 100, an XO-1.75 will do

Re: [Server-devel] Looking for new low power server hardware candidate

2012-04-11 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 5:29 AM, George Hunt georgejh...@gmail.com wrote: When I took the picture in the following url, I was focusing on what it would take to run off of 12V deep cycle battery: http://schoolserver.wordpress.com/xs-installation/xs-0-7-running-on-xo-1-5/ That's very cool!

Re: [Server-devel] Looking for new low power server hardware candidate

2012-04-11 Thread rihowa...@gmail.com
On Apr 10, 2012, at 5:04 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote: On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 2:03 AM, George Hunt georgejh...@gmail.com wrote: I left my fitpc2 and msi servers in the Philippines, hoping they would be pressed into service in a classroom situation. So now I'm in the market for another toy.

Re: [Server-devel] Looking for new low power server hardware candidate

2012-04-11 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On 11 April 2012 22:59, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 5:29 AM, George Hunt georgejh...@gmail.com wrote: I think it was Sameer who was telling me that in Australia, they are thinking about one XS per classroom. In that setting, seems to me that XO1.75

Re: [Server-devel] Looking for new low power server hardware candidate

2012-04-11 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 11:57 PM, Sridhar Dhanapalan srid...@laptop.org.au wrote: Why is it such a bad idea? The thought was to do away with registration, moodle and other unnecessary services and focus only on the XMPP server. You want to run a network of federated XMPP servers? It's

Re: [Server-devel] Looking for new low power server hardware candidate

2012-04-10 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 2:03 AM, George Hunt georgejh...@gmail.com wrote: I left my fitpc2 and msi servers in the Philippines, hoping they would be pressed into service in a classroom situation.  So now I'm in the market for another toy. If you have time towork with us through some hitches, I'd

Re: [Server-devel] Looking for new low power server hardware candidate

2012-04-10 Thread George Hunt
I'd love to be involved in getting an arm server going. I have a dreamplug. Which distro are you thinking would be a good base? What sort of hitches? If there's discussion in the archives, I'll do reading to get up to speed. I might help if I knew when or who. George On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at

Re: [Server-devel] Looking for new low power server hardware candidate

2012-04-10 Thread John Watlington
Why not an XO-1.75 ? On Apr 10, 2012, at 8:04 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote: On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 2:03 AM, George Hunt georgejh...@gmail.com wrote: I left my fitpc2 and msi servers in the Philippines, hoping they would be pressed into service in a classroom situation. So now I'm in the market

[Server-devel] Looking for new low power server hardware candidate

2012-04-02 Thread George Hunt
Hi everyone, I left my fitpc2 and msi servers in the Philippines, hoping they would be pressed into service in a classroom situation. So now I'm in the market for another toy. I remember Sameer saying somewhere in the email compost that he had found new interesting server hardware, but a google