Signed Build for Italy

Bryan Berry bryan.berry at gmail.com
Fri May 2 00:24:33 EDT 2008


forgot to clarify 

I have an unproven theory that the __LINK-LOCAL__ XMPP traffic (clique) can
disable networking on XO's when you get more than 40 XO's in a small
space and using AP's. This is just from anecdotal experience not serious
research.                


On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 07:48 +0545, Bryan Berry wrote:
> >This, or the laptops will have to remain in English.  I don't think
> >this
> >is acceptable for the municipality.  Also, OLPC support for regular
> >builds
> >at this time is limited to one new release every 6 months.
> 
> Sorry to chime in so late, but the Italian team can change the language
> in the firmware w/out permanently disabling security.
> 
> from Forth:  
> OK disable-security
> [reboots]
> OK disable-security
> [reboots]
> OK change-tag LO it_IT.UTF-8   (whatever the codes are for Italy)
> OK enable-security
> 
> w/ these steps you can go back to firmware security and Sugar would
> default to Italian.
> >What OLPC means by "not supported" should not be overstated.  Kim may
> >want to correct me on this, but the way I interpret it is: "please
> >don't
> >call us if your custom build has problems".  Of course, when one finds
> a
> >problem that can be reproduced also in Update.1, you can report it and
> >ask it to be fixed in the next release, of course, subject to the
> >severity
> >of the problem and the available engineering resources.
> 
> 
> The other nagging issue w/ using stable releases from OLPC is that you
> have to change the Jabber server manually to the local Jabber server.
> That's a lot of work on several thousand XO's. I have an unproven theory
> that the XMPP traffic can disable networking on XO's when you get more
> than 40 XO's in a small space and using AP's. This is just from
> anecdotal not serious research.
> 
> 
> Bryan
> Kathmandu
> 
-- 
Bryan W. Berry
Systems Engineer
OLE Nepal, http://www.olenepal.org




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