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 wrote: > Thanks for your notes. > > On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 10:04 PM, Sridhar Dhanapalan > wrote: > But you have some economies of scale :-) do once per school vs do it > on every machine in the school. > > The school XS can be shipped preconfigured, sidest

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

2012-04-17 Thread Martin Langhoff
Thanks for your notes. On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 10:04 PM, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > Ideally, I think we'd want to have the servers be auto-detected on the > network and available to select by the XO. Ideas to implement this > include making them show in the Neighbourhood View and a selector in >

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 wrote: > On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 12:28 AM, Sridhar Dhanapalan > 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 addresses will suffice to begin with.

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

2012-04-14 Thread David Leeming
top.org] On Behalf Of Sridhar Dhanapalan Sent: Thursday, 12 April 2012 1:58 p.m. To: Martin Langhoff Cc: George Hunt; XS Devel Subject: Re: [Server-devel] Looking for new low power server hardware candidate On 11 April 2012 22:59, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 5:29 AM, Geor

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 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 > Network CP applet. They

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 wrote: > On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 11:57 PM, Sridhar Dhanapalan > 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 networ

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

2012-04-12 Thread rihowa...@gmail.com
The OpenRD has an internal sata HDD bay ad has 2 ethernet ports. The one I have has been on continuously for a few years with no problems. The TonidoPlug2 has an internal sata HDD bay and 1 ethernet port and 1 wireless. I have not used a TonidoPlug2 but am tempted to purchase one because of

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 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 --  martin.langh...@gmail.com  ma

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 wrote: > > > On Apr 10, 2012, at 5:04 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote: > >> On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 2:03 AM, George Hunt wrote: >>> I left my fitpc2 and msi servers in the Philippines, hoping they would be >>> pressed into service in a classroom situa

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 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 madness. Rather, it's no

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 wrote: > On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 5:29 AM, George Hunt 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 (even with only 512MB memory) would be m

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 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

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 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! > I'm concerned with

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 wrote: > On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 10:55 PM, John Watlington 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 Contr

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 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). XO-1.75, Plug o

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

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 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 get

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 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 t

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 8

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 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 recommend an ARM s

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

2012-04-01 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