<div dir="auto"><div dir="auto">"<span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:19.05px">What technical documentation exists?" is a critically important #18 within <a href="http://schoolserver.org/FAQ">http://schoolserver.org/FAQ</a></span></div><div dir="auto"><br></div>How best to revise XSCE 6.0 and other infra explanations/backgrounders showing their age here:<div dir="auto"><div dir="auto"><a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_Community_Edition/FAQ#What_technical_documentation_exists.3F">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_Community_Edition/FAQ#What_technical_documentation_exists.3F</a><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">(Thursday's 10:30AM EST call can hopefully help capture for us & all, those technical docs/links/insights most essential to elevate & circulate in 2017 !)</div><div dir="auto"><br></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Feb 15, 2017 10:11 AM, "Adam Holt" <<a href="mailto:holt@laptop.org">holt@laptop.org</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Feb 15, 2017 8:54 AM, "Tim Moody" <<a href="mailto:tim@timmoody.com" target="_blank">tim@timmoody.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="m_-2969403091223424474m_3676891806608831790quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Are we now at the point of changing the default hostname to box?<br></div></div><div class="m_-2969403091223424474m_3676891806608831790elided-text"><div class="gmail_extra"></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Prob the right move yes, retaining legacy support for <a href="http://schoolserver" target="_blank">http://schoolserver</a> and <a href="http://schoolserver.lan" target="_blank">http://schoolserver.lan</a> of course. All 3 aliases should work {box.lan, schoolserver.lan, hogwarts.lan} when tinkerers change their training to <a href="http://hogwarts.lan" target="_blank">http://hogwarts.lan</a></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">My #1 goal is to dramatically simplify training materials (<a href="http://box" target="_blank">http://box</a> and <a href="http://box/usb" target="_blank">http://box/usb</a> etc) so legit global adoption can now move forward more organically, purposefully & increasingly.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Even better if a reasonably good set of Captive Portal compromises emerges in 2017 as well (so less-literate-but-just-as-brig<wbr>ht learners don't have to type in URL's at all, upon connecting to Wi-Fi, even if many keyboard elites don't grasp this need ;)</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div style="font-family:sans-serif" dir="auto">> What I name the server and the alias I give for the browser to find it are not the same thing.<br></div><div style="font-family:sans-serif" dir="auto">></div><div style="font-family:sans-serif" dir="auto">> The host name should be set with either in the admin console or via local vars as the FAQ says, but the rest deals with aliases.</div><div style="font-family:sans-serif" dir="auto"><br></div><div style="font-family:sans-serif" dir="auto">Yes. My approach was to address Teachers/Hospital volunteers #1, as they are in dire need of 1 single concise URL-as-name they can communicate to their peers and depend on, e.g. <a href="http://box.lan" target="_blank">http://box.lan</a> or ideally <a href="http://box" target="_blank">http://box</a> suffices on the vast majority if their site's client devices.</div><div style="font-family:sans-serif" dir="auto"><br></div><div style="font-family:sans-serif" dir="auto">So I'm trying to push the FAQ to "teacher-centric" Survival Needs first and foremost. Then further below these user-centric lead ideas & on-ramping essentials, linking to tech details where nec.</div><div style="font-family:sans-serif" dir="auto"><br></div><div style="font-family:sans-serif" dir="auto">With background/implementer material linking to <a href="https://github.com/XSCE/xsce/wiki" target="_blank">https://github.com/XSCE/<wbr>xsce/wiki</a> and other illustrative architecture vitals I'm surely missing for those diving in to Tweak and Customize (if not trick out) their Internet-in-a-Box system — <i>as a model for their entire community.</i></div><div style="font-family:sans-serif" dir="auto"><br></div><div style="font-family:sans-serif" dir="auto">This teacher/implementer balancing act must be readjusted constantly en route whenever we find a better way (teachers are lost without implementers hearing out their real needs, and then iterating).</div><div style="font-family:sans-serif" dir="auto"><br></div><div style="font-family:sans-serif" dir="auto">I intentionally avoided talking about aliases (equiv to Host Name) entirely to avoid sewing confusion. But perhaps there is a better way.<br></div><div style="font-family:sans-serif" dir="auto"><br></div><div style="font-family:sans-serif" dir="auto">Thanks all for beating on <i>(and fixing) </i><a href="http://schoolserver.org/FAQ" target="_blank">http://schoolserver.org/FAQ</a> so </div><div style="font-family:sans-serif" dir="auto"> innocent newbie misunderstandings Keep Clearing Up!</div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="m_-2969403091223424474m_3676891806608831790quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="m_-2969403091223424474m_3676891806608831790elided-text"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 10:35 PM, Adam Holt <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:holt@laptop.org" target="_blank">holt@laptop.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>As our documentation is coming together, this is only a Draft! As I'm sure Jerry Vonau and other networking wizards like can improve on this response :)<br><br><a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_Community_Edition/FAQ#Can_I_name_my_server_something_other_than_http:.2F.2FBOX.LAN_.3F" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_C<wbr>ommunity_Edition/FAQ#Can_I_nam<wbr>e_my_server_something_other_th<wbr>an_http:.2F.2FBOX.LAN_.3F</a><br><br></div>PS this is #11 within the 21 Frequently Asked Questions at <a href="http://schoolserver.org/FAQ" target="_blank">http://schoolserver.org/FAQ</a><br></div>
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