What does 'Register' do for a G1G1 user?

[John Watlington]

On Jan 26, 2008, at 7:00 PM, Mikus Grinbergs wrote:

> The 'Register' that shows up on the drop-down menu on the Home view
> - I always thought it was for a pupil to "register" with his school
> server.  But I have a G1G1, and __no__ school.  [I don't have any
> wireless, either.]  Is 'Register' supposed to do anything for me ?
>
> mikus
>
> p.s.
> [Looked on the wiki.  Did not find anything that described
> 'Register'.  Did not even find anything that talked about
> needing to register (or not) with a non-school server.]

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/School_Identity_Manager

It is used to initialize two DNS names for service providers for
the laptops: currently only presence and backup.
Registration is "optional" as long as you don't mind the
default presence server and no backups.

wad