[Server-devel] wwwoffle?

[Dan Zubey]

Hi Andy

Well shell scripting is one of my strong points. I can put something 
together quickly here.

I assume the script should make squid and wwwoffle mutually 
exclusive...so that when wwwoffle is enabled, squid gets disabled, and 
vice versa?



On 01/22/2011 04:44 PM, Andra DuPont wrote:
>
> On Jan 22, 2011, at 4:51 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 4:44 PM, Anna <aschoolf at gmail.com 
>> <mailto:aschoolf at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>> Wasn't me!  I tried to get it to work the other day on my test server
>>
>> Ah true, it was Andra! I'm all mixed up...
>>
>>
> Yes... it was me. I input the  "WWWOFFLE for unreliable or 
> intermittent internet connections 
> <http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_Techniques_and_Configuration#WWWOFFLE_for_unreliable_or_intermittent_internet_connections>" 
> section of the "XS Techniques and Configuration 
> <http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_Techniques_and_Configuration>". I am 
> running wwwoffle on an XS in Kenya, and it is helping out a lot. In 
> fact, we have loaded up a ton of educational site pages to the XS 
> while on high speed connection, and all this material is available to 
> the students even when the XS is offline, which is most of the time. 
> We have created courses in Moodle where the topics are groupings of 
> educational categories, and each educational site is add to the topic 
> as a "link to a website" resource.
>
> As you can tell from the method I used, it is a manual process, and 
> Martin has asked me to work on making it a little more integral to the 
> build, so that a script can take care of switching between Squid and 
> wwwoffle for instance.
>
> I have not had the time to develop this yet, and will be going back to 
> Kenya soon. I hope to carve out some time soon, but if you want to 
> jump in, that would be great.
>
> Andy (Andra is my legal/formal name).
>>
>>
>> m
>> -- 
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>>  - don't get distracted with shiny stuff  - working code first
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>

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